The Great Jing Dynasty suffered successive years of severe drought, leading to critical food shortages in the Frontier Borderlands. A corruption case involving the former Minister of Revenue implicated all maids in his household, who were ordered exiled to the frontier to be wed to meritorious garrison soldiers. No one was willing to choose Hayden Shaw, a bannerman rank soldier who was poor and supported a widowed mother along with his younger siblings. Su Miao, a transmigrator from the post-apocalyptic wasteland, knew very well that security in chaotic times was far more valuable than luxury, so she stepped forward voluntarily to choose Hayden, stating openly that she could farm and run the household without requiring him to provide rations. Hayden had expected to receive a delicate, burdensome woman, only to find that Su Miao possessed wood-based superpowers: she could accelerate crop growth, sense medicinal herbs, and control vines to tame beasts. She reclaimed wasteland to grow grains and vegetables, dug up aged ginseng root and hunted wild boars in the mountains, foraged wild vegetables, cultivated astragalus root, and used scrap fabric to make hairpins, hair ribbons, and handmade pouches to sell at the market, gradually improving the Shaw family's poor circumstances. She cared for her mother-in-law Rose Lee, brother-in-law Stone Shaw, and sister-in-law Yvette Shaw, fostering a warm, harmonious household. Marnie Walsh, who was exiled alongside Su Miao, was determined to cling to the better-
