My Rough-and-Ready Husband Has Become a Minister?

Daosheng was a plain, unremarkable farm girl. One day, she was sent off to marry a hunter with a hideous face and a taste for blood and killing. Everyone laughed at her and waited for news of her death, even imagining 108 different ways she might meet her end.

But…

Daosheng survived, while the hunter died.

All right, then. Everyone waited for Daosheng and the burden she was saddled with to starve or be bullied to death.

But…

Where had the spacious brick-and-tile house come from, along with acres upon acres of fertile farmland, the smell of meat wafting through the air every day, and those tall, brawny servants?

What?

There were carriages belonging to noblemen, too? And they just kept coming, one after another!

Just as everyone thought Daosheng was merely a pretty plaything, kept around to please someone, a general astride a fine steed appeared before her with a lavish wedding procession stretching ten miles. He wasn’t asking for her hand in marriage. He wanted to marry into her family!

Everyone began to envy Daosheng.

But what came next was even more enviable.

The head of the Imperial Medical Academy competed to take Daosheng as his apprentice.

The head of the Agricultural Bureau competed to get close to her.

And the burden she had raised… how had he suddenly become the ruler of the realm?

Much later, everyone finally realized that Daosheng had long since become someone far beyond their reach.