Cast Out by Her Father? Branded a Criminal Wife? She Bets on Marriage to Change Her Fate and Strikes It Rich

[Exile] [A Convict's Wife in Peril] [Frontier Life] [Water Powers] [Reclaiming Land and Farming] [Business and Wealth] [Women Supporting Women] [Two Strong, Straightforward Partners]

On the day she transmigrated, Ning Zhaoxin was abandoned by her biological father and sent with her mother and maternal grandmother's family into exile in the southern borderlands, where they became convict slaves.

Everyone said convict slaves were lower than dirt, and that any woman sent to a military camp would be abused to death within three days.

To save her gravely ill cousin, Ning Zhaoxin stopped the Xiao brothers, who had just earned merit in battle. "Do you want a wife or not?"

The Xiao brothers replied, "We can't afford to support a woman. Even if we wanted one, we'd choose someone strong who can work, not someone this frail with a sickly girl in tow."

Ning Zhaoxin answered firmly, "We sisters don't need you to support us. I can farm, hunt, and identify medicinal herbs. My cousin can read and manage a household. When a man chooses a wife, he's choosing a mother for his children. We can support ourselves and raise our children well in the future."

From then on, Nan Zhao had two couples whose reputations spread far and wide.

The brothers swept through enemy forces with their blades, protecting the people.

The sisters farmed and did business, ensuring the people had enough to eat and warm clothes to wear.

The mountains were steep and barren. Was everyone doomed to starve?

Ning Zhaoxin led the people of Nan Zhao in planting medicinal herbs across the mountains and fields, building prosperity until everyone could live comfortably.

With grain yields low, her Gui water nourished and improved the seeds for high yields, and from then on the people had their fill at every meal.

The fragrance of sorghum wine and fruit wine spread throughout Daxia.

Just as Ning Zhaoxin became the richest woman in the land, she accidentally discovered that her husband, who had risen from an ordinary soldier to a great general through sheer force of arms, had a very unusual identity.