Fighting to Survive

Zhao Ce never expected to wake up in the Ming Dynasty — broke, ridiculed, and labeled a useless scholar. Worse, the original Zhao Ce had borrowed money just to marry a wife… and somehow ended up with a frail, crippled girl everyone called a monster. Her mismatched eyes frightened the villagers, but when Zhao Ce looked closer, he saw something else — quiet strength behind her trembling gaze. In a world where poverty crushes dreams, Zhao Ce refuses to bow. With ink-stained hands and a heart burning with determination, he decides to rewrite his fate — studying by candlelight, farming by dawn, and protecting the woman fate forced into his arms. Can a poor scholar and his “cursed” wife rise above scorn and build their own fortune? Or will destiny drag them both back into misery?

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