After Exile, I Became a Han Merchant in Dunhuang

"Listen to Auntie's words, it will be clean once you're dead. Don't be afraid, Auntie will accompany you."

Sui Yu suddenly regained consciousness, and these words were all that surfaced in her mind. She struggled and fell from the white silk noose, seeing a pair of embroidered shoes dangling before her eyes. She wasn't strangled to death but nearly scared to death. Looking up, a terrified boy was sitting on the bed.

Due to her clan's implication, her home was confiscated. Before being thrown into prison, the original owner's aunt, in despair, took her daughter to hang themselves. The original owner died, but Sui Yu miraculously survived, taking her place.

Coincidentally, a great victory occurred in the northwest. To defend the border and reclaim wasteland, the imperial court ordered immigration, and Sui Yu's entire clan was exiled to the northwest as criminal slaves. She led her frightened and foolish young brother from Jiangnan to the northwest, and before she could even settle down, she was assigned to be a soldier's wife.

The man disliked her because she was a criminal slave, always wearing a cold face, like a living Yama. However, the man was tough on the outside but soft on the inside, a paper tiger. Sui Yu accurately grasped his temperament and conquered him inch by inch, watching him gradually fall for her.

"We won't beg others anymore. I will earn military merits to get your slave status removed." From then on, the man worked hard to accumulate military merits outside, while Sui Yu farmed and tamed camels at home, waiting for his safe return.

Once she gained her freedom, Sui Yu assembled a camel caravan, traversing the desert, passing through the Gobi, walking beneath snow-capped mountains, and crossing mighty rivers. She fell asleep to the sound of camel bells and awoke to the cry of eagles, bringing silk, tea, and porcelain to the Western Regions, and returning with fine horses, gold, silver, jewelry, and precious medicinal herbs.

She left her unique footprint on the Silk Road.

【Note 1】The novel's background draws inspiration from the Western Han Dynasty, but the characters are fictional and not verifiable. The female lead is a transmigator who later forms a caravan to the Western Regions, accelerating historical progress in terms of introducing economic crops. Those who can accept this can proceed.

【Note 2】The currency units in the text are currently incorrect and will be changed within the next week.