
Chi Yu drunkenly found herself transmigrated into a cannon-fodder character in a rural farming novel that emphasized hardship and survival. In the original story, the main character was accused of being pregnant with a dead child, and the malicious mother-in-law spread rumors that she was a hen who couldn’t lay eggs. Even worse, it was loudly proclaimed: either she would be cast out, or her husband would remarry and bring in a second wife—along with the son from that union!
Chi Yu thought: Are you kidding me? Her brain short-circuited. The next day after arriving, she picked up the rolling pin and beat the malicious old woman senseless. Then she clung tightly to the husband’s large thigh and snatched her son back. After that, she began looting her own dowry—emptying out everything, not leaving behind a single grain of rice or even a single tile. Divorce? Absolutely—she had to divorce. But she would leave only if she could take her child with her.
With a husband like that, who in their right mind would send her off alone?
The freshly divorced Chi Yu ended up being noticed by the “villain” Qin Mu. Qin Mu was a notorious scoundrel, cold-blooded and ruthless. Rumor had it that five years ago, when he was just seven, he personally slaughtered three wolves and a tiger with his bare hands. By the time he was thirteen, he was already commanding troops at the northern border. At sixteen, he was titled “General Protector of the Realm.” At twenty-four, he entered the battlefield and cut down countless enemies, leaving rivers of blood in his wake.
Even the pampered young ladies in the city, as soon as they turned fourteen, would burn incense and pray that they wouldn’t cross paths with him.
Yet after Qin Mu met Chi Yu, he went as far as to paint her portrait and keep it hidden in his study. He even bought out all the rouge and hairpins she had touched, collecting them like priceless treasures. Some even said that when Qin Mu stared at her, his gaze softened completely.
Everyone said that the Qin family’s daughter was the Heaven-blessed match that allowed him to rise to power, but Qin Mu himself would say: It was this wife of mine, Chi Yu, who took me from a boy, to a handsome youth, and finally forged me into the Grand General of the Empire. Without her, I could never have achieved this!