Happily Farming with My Heaven-Sent Wife

A handy, gentle, cool older woman and a delicate, aloof beauty

Cheng Xue stayed up all night reading a novel about women fighting for power in an aristocratic household. When she woke up, she had transmigrated into the book as Cheng Xue, the first cannon fodder character to die young.

The Cheng family had fallen on hard times. Before her father died of illness, he arranged her marriage to Shen Wu, the least favored of the Shen family's five daughters.

On the way to the wedding, Cheng Xue died in a bandit raid.

When she woke again, she had become the modern-day Cheng Xue.

In the original story, after the original Cheng Xue died, the Fifth Miss of the Shen family was first despised as an ugly monster because of the scar on her face, then branded an ill omen who had brought her husband to an early grave. Neglected even more by her family, she eventually died of sorrow.

After thinking it over, Cheng Xue decided to go through with the wedding and head to the Shen family. She honestly explained her desperate situation and gave Fifth Miss Shen the choice to refuse the marriage and find someone better. But to Cheng Xue's surprise, Fifth Miss Shen, tears in her eyes, insisted on marrying her, saying she was willing to live a simple farming life together, with each of them working in the fields and at home.

Cheng Xue stopped arguing. After all, Fifth Miss Shen was almost absurdly beautiful, and that scar did nothing to diminish her looks. Cheng Xue figured the ancient people who couldn't appreciate her were all blind.

And just like that, Cheng Xue gained a wife sent from heaven.

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The Shen family kept fighting among themselves while waiting to see the Fifth Miss and Cheng Xue fall into poverty. But the Shen family was the one falling apart, while the married couple were doing just fine, and their lives were getting better and better.

The crops Cheng Xue grew proved extremely popular, even attracting the attention of the imperial court. In no time, Cheng Xue went from a poor farmer to a favored figure at court, while Shen Wu became a highly honored lady of the imperial court.

The Shen family regretted it bitterly, especially the older sisters above Shen Wu. If only they'd known, they would have fought for the chance to marry Cheng Xue.

But it wasn't too late. The unmarried Fourth Miss Shen considered marrying Cheng Xue and becoming her younger sister's co-wife.

Cheng Xue didn't even give Fourth Miss Shen a proper look before rejecting her. "In this life, one beloved wife, Wu, is more than enough for me."

Theme: Stay true to your one true love, always