Ju Shuiyue transmigrates as a newlywed bride and travels a thousand miles to marry the heir of the Prince of Zhennan, who is being held hostage in a foreign country.
Their family gets the worst treatment among the hostage families?
They can't spend more than a hundred copper coins on medicine?
Their food, clothes, and daily necessities are withheld?
Every Tom, Dick, and Harry can come and harass them?
Ju Shuiyue rolls up her sleeves. No problem. She can provide for herself.
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Yu Yanzhou has been held hostage for six years. Now that he's of marriageable age and still unmarried, his mother has sent a wife a thousand miles to him. He hears that she tried to kill herself all the way there, and his old servant keeps telling him every day:
“Your Highness, Madam is so hungry she's eating the weeds in the courtyard.”
“Your Highness, Madam can only make tea with leftover tea leaves.”
“Your Highness... Madam is being bullied so badly that all she can eat are chicken wings, feet, and other scraps.”
Yu Yanzhou, who had been content just to stay alive, finally gets back on his feet. Then he discovers that tea brewed from leftover leaves is actually milk tea, while the filthy chicken wings and feet have been turned into rice-stuffed chicken wings and pickled chicken feet. The little prince of neighboring Ning is drooling with envy, and the third prince of Wei is offering a fortune to buy them.
Yu Yanzhou: ...
[Revised 2025/4/3]
Theme: Keep your heart turned toward the sun, and life will bloom like a flower.