After Being Forced to Become a Wife, I’m Still Miserable Today

(An alternate-history setting with a touch of fantasy.)

My name is Jiang Liu. In my previous life, I was an unemployed layabout. In this life, I'm a "Wish-Granting Mother Tree" in another world, forced to take customers?

At least I'm just a tree, so being male or female makes no difference.

My services cover just about everything, and I grant nearly every wish, helping countless people in need. But I feel no joy, only exhaustion. After all, who likes working at full throttle every day? If I refuse, I get struck by lightning.

Then one day, a special visitor arrived. The villagers said his name was Zhou Xun, a down-on-his-luck general.

At night, he would often row over to me alone and ramble on about his life. I never spoke, only swayed my branches gently, answering with the wind.

As time passed, I grew curious about him and wondered what he wished for.

Then, on the night he recovered and prepared to leave, I finally learned his wish.

"I, Zhou Xun, offer all the fortune of my life as betrothal gifts, and my life and all I possess as a wedding present. I ask only to enter into a marriage pact with the 'Wish God,' witnessed by the Heavenly Dao, and to remain devoted to one another, sharing every joy and sorrow from this day forward."

I couldn't help shouting, "Hey, man, wait! Have you lost your mind?"

It was the first time I had ever spoken. But as the "Wish God," I could only passively accept wishes that fully complied with the rules.

A gust of wind rose, then passed. The willow tree vanished in an instant, replaced by a graceful young woman lying on top of him.

"Zhou Xun, you bastard!"

He chuckled softly and pulled me close. "You can't call your husband that, or you'll be the wife of a bastard... And I can't bear that."