Sharing a Farm with the First Emperor

Zhao Yun transmigrated.

She transmigrated into the body of a lowly orphan girl in ancient times, with an uncaring father and a mother who had died young. All she could do was cling to her aunt and struggle to survive.

Fortunately, she got a portable farm. Even more absurdly, it wasn't hers alone: her frail young cousin, Zhao Zheng, could enter it, too.

The farm could produce extraordinary seeds yielding a thousand catties per mu. It was the ultimate trump card in an age of chaos, and the only thing Zhao Zheng could rely on to turn his fortunes around and establish himself in the world.

To protect this opportunity, the long-suffering Zhao Zheng willingly put up with all of Zhao Yun's bullying.

And so Zhao Yun got hold of his weakness, threatening and bribing him, and forcing her little cousin to farm for her.

The summer heat was scorching.

Zhao Yun lounged beneath the shade of a tree, leisurely sipping refreshing iced sour plum soup.

When she looked up, she saw the thin figure of the young boy stooped over his hoe beneath the blazing sun. Sweat poured down him, soaking his clothes and tanning his skin dark. His arms trembled with exhaustion, but he never stopped.

Zhao Yun took a sip of soup and said coolly, with a hint of malicious amusement, "Keep it up. Finish hoeing this mu of land, and I'll reward you with some soup."

The boy kept his head down and worked in silence, enduring everything. He quietly recorded every instance of her bullying, every debt, deep in his heart, waiting for the day he could turn the tables and get his revenge.

But the next second, a procession of officials arrived, escorting a resplendently dressed nobleman with an extraordinary bearing.

An official announced loudly and reverently, "The Qin prince, Sun Zheng, will be staying here for now!"

The bowl of sour plum soup in Zhao Yun's hands clattered, nearly slipping to the ground.

The Qin prince, Sun Zheng?!

Her pitiful little cousin, Zhao Zheng, whom she bullied at will and made toil endlessly in the fields every day?

He was actually the future First Emperor of Qin, Ying Zheng, who would unite the six kingdoms, look down upon the world, and take revenge for the slightest grudge!

She stiffly raised her eyes to look at the boy, whose skin was as dark as charcoal from the sun.

At that moment, Zhao Zheng slowly looked up and gave her a faint, toothy smile.

There wasn't a trace of warmth in his dark eyes. His white teeth stood out starkly, and a sinister chill shot straight from Zhao Yun's feet to the crown of her head.

With her legs weak and numb, Zhao Yun regretted everything. Only one thought remained in her mind: Run! Run right now!

But before she could flee in a panic, the boy's cool, low voice rang out, each word icy cold:

"Take her back to Qin with us."

And so Zhao Yun, guilty of countless misdeeds, was abducted and bundled off by the future First Emperor himself.

Watching the birds soar freely across the sky, Zhao Yun was close to tears, wailing inwardly.

It's over!

It's all over!

After offending the most vindictive and ruthless First Emperor in history, her future was bound to be worse than death!

But no one could have imagined how everything would turn around, or how absurd fate could be.

Years later, when he ascended the throne, she became the one and only Empress of the First Emperor.

Seated on the phoenix throne, Zhao Yun crossed her legs and leisurely munched on melon seeds, seeing through it all and embracing her fate with ease.

What was there to fear?

As long as I was useful enough to the First Emperor!

Not only could I survive in peace and enjoy a lifetime of favor, I could even make the First Emperor, the greatest ruler of all time, utterly smitten!

P.S. Please don't get hung up on the fact that the male and female leads are cousins, or the possibility that their children might have birth defects. Anything is possible in a fictional world. Just read and enjoy.

Thesis: A couple working together makes light work