"Love by force (woman pursues man)" "Building and development"
Shen Jiao transmigrated from the apocalypse into an unfamiliar dynasty.
Somehow, she became the new top scholar's newlywed wife.
Her mother-in-law and sister-in-law treated her like a servant, while her husband watched coldly as she did the laundry and cooked.
Shen Jiao, who could kill a zombie with one swing of a cudgel, couldn't hold back. She picked up a plate and smashed it into her good-for-nothing husband's head.
Her mother-in-law and sister-in-law shrieked, and a voice in Shen Jiao's head started shouting wildly, too.
"Warning! Warning! Rule-breaking behavior detected!"
Shen Jiao was locked in the woodshed and shocked as if by electricity. She also spent the whole night watching countless colorful little people try to pick the lock for her.
Damn it! Why did the System come along, too?
Because of the System, Shen Jiao didn't dare act rashly. She gritted her teeth and played the part of a virtuous, docile wife.
She even had to put up with being urged to take all kinds of tonics to help her have a son.
After being force-fed half a bowl of medicine, Shen Jiao could take no more and poured the tonic over her sister-in-law's head.
She braced herself for another electric shock, but after waiting for half a stick of incense, the System stayed as quiet as a mouse.
Shen Jiao: ?!
Did that damn tonic poison the System to death?
"Hahahahahaha! Who can control me now?!"
Shen Jiao overturned the table and smashed up everything in the entire estate. When she left, she even kicked the main gate down, tossed behind her a letter of divorce from her husband, and walked away.
Where should she go? She'd heard there was a band of bandits on Qinglong Mountain.
Why not go join them?
Pan Liang, once the top scholar, hated Shen Jiao for smashing up his home, but he refused to take another wife.
Later, the emperor appointed him to suppress the bandits on Qinglong Mountain.
After the mountain's new bandit king took power, the place grew fabulously wealthy, did business behind closed doors, and built up an army of its own.
It became a major threat in the emperor's eyes.
Pan Liang had barely reached the foot of the mountain when he was tied up and hauled before the bandit king.
"Well, well! An old acquaintance."
Pan Liang looked up in terror. The beautiful woman seated on the tiger-skin throne was none other than Shen Jiao, who had smashed his home to pieces.
In the years since they had last met, she had traded her old demure look for a dazzling, flamboyant beauty.
Behind her, a tall, straight-backed man glanced at Pan Liang, wrapped his arms around Shen Jiao's waist, and buried his face in the crook of her neck.
"Jiaojiao, who's he?"
"My ex-husband."
"Didn't you say you were widowed?"
Shen Jiao took the man's hand, her eyes utterly sincere.
"It's no big deal. Someone drag him away and execute him!"
Pan Liang: ???
Since court officials couldn't be killed on a whim, Pan Liang was locked up at the foot of the mountain.
After nightfall, the man who had been at Shen Jiao's side came alone to the foot of the mountain.
"So you're the one who kept mistreating Jiaojiao?"
Pan Liang cursed the two of them for being in cahoots, but then he saw the man calmly draw a dagger and slowly wipe it clean.
"You'd better look closely at my face before you say another word, Top Scholar Pan."
In the cold moonlight, Pan Liang realized in horror that this man's face looked remarkably like the current emperor's.
He swallowed and timidly called out, "Your Majesty, the Retired Emperor..."
Theme: Live happily every day
