The Chief Minister's Fierce Hunter Wife

Good news: After Ling Shuang died suddenly, she transmigrated to ancient times with a city-building System.

Bad news: She became a village girl in a remote mountain valley. Saving up the 1,000 taels of silver needed for the System's initial startup funds? Maybe in her next life.

Fortunately, the beginner's gift pack gave her a genetic potion. After taking it, her stamina, strength, and agility improved greatly, so she could live well as a hunter relying on the mountains.

Then came a bolt from the blue: if she wasn't married by the time she turned eighteen, the authorities would force her into a marriage...

Ling Shuang surveyed the village and finally set her sights on the nephew of Uncle Wang Er, who lived at the east end of the village.

Although this Lu Dalang had disabled legs, he had a face as handsome as jade and was literate. Wasn't he a hundred times better than those country bumpkins?

As for his disabled legs, that was no problem at all. She could support him, so he could lie flat in peace and be her pretty kept man.

After that, all kinds of gruesomely dead game would appear in the Wang family's courtyard every few days.

Perhaps worried that the two men wouldn't know how to prepare it, she later started sending over fragrant meat dishes instead.

Wang Er looked at the two bright-green vegetable dishes on his own table, then at the glistening fried chicken beside them, and decided he couldn't stomach this meal.

He tentatively suggested, "Master, how about swallowing your pride and accepting Ling Erniang?"

Lu Yuncheng flew into a rage. "Do I look like such a shallow man?"

But he really did accept her.

This was what he said: "Whether the food is delicious or not doesn't matter. I have to leave an heir for the Lu family, don't I?"

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Later, the Lu family was exonerated. Ling Shuang heard that Lu Yuncheng had connections at court, so she tentatively asked, "If your wife gets herself into some big trouble, you should be able to cover for me, right?"

Lu Yuncheng, former Grand Secretary and eldest legitimate son of the Lu family, a century-old aristocratic clan in the capital, readily nodded. "I can."

He figured a village woman like her couldn't possibly get into any major trouble.

Then he nearly had his eyes pop out of his head.

Wait, you built a city from the ground up overnight? How am I supposed to cover for something this earth-shattering???

Does she think I can do more than I actually can?!

Reader's Notes:

1. Both leads are each other's first, one-on-one, happy ending.

2. Farming in the early chapters, infrastructure development later. The setting never changes; they build a city in the mountains the whole time.

Theme: Hard work brings prosperity.