Divorced and Sent Home, My Second Marriage to a Hunter Brings Prosperity to the Whole Village!

Zhou Xiaomai, a veteran soldier from a post-apocalyptic future, transmigrates into the body of an eighteen-year-old girl in the Great Ze Kingdom. The original host, also named Zhou Xiaomai, had been sold as a chongxi bride to the Han family to marry their consumptive eldest son, Han Yi. After two years of devoted care, Han Yi recovered, only to discard his wife for his former fiancée, Huo Shuqi. The original host hanged herself in despair, allowing Zhou Xiaomai to take over. Upon returning to her natal home in Zhoujia Village, she faced immediate hostility from her grandmother, Old Mrs. Jiang, who viewed her as a financial burden and demanded she return to the Han family to extort compensation. Zhou Xiaomai, possessing the cold pragmatism of an apocalypse survivor, refused to beg. She had already secured two hundred taels of silver from the Han family through a month-long negotiation and kept the money hidden.

Her natal family, consisting of a weak-willed mother, Liu Caixia, a foolish and obedient father, Zhou Xiang, and a greedy grandmother, sought to control her newfound wealth. Old Mrs. Jiang attempted to search Zhou Xiaomai for the money, but the transmigrator had already concealed it within her spatial ability, a rare power inherited from her previous life. When the family failed to find anything, they threatened to cast her out. Rather than endure their oppression, Zhou Xiaomai demanded her household registration back and severed ties with the family. The village chief, Zhou Deren, intervened to mediate the dispute and arranged for Zhou Xiaomai to live temporarily in the abandoned main house of his own family, located at the remote eastern edge of the village near Kui Mountain.

Living alone in the dilapidated house, Zhou Xiaomai began to establish her independence. She utilized her spatial dimension, which held five hundred cubic meters of storage and time-stasis capabilities, to manage her resources. Her inventory included survival supplies from the apocalypse, such as self-heating meals and tools, which she used to adapt to this new, peaceful world. Her first act of self-sufficiency involved hunting; she encountered a large black bear but discovered it was actually a human hunter in disguise. This neighbor, Xiao Qingshan, was a burly, silent man who lived in isolation. Despite his intimidating appearance, he proved to be helpful, assisting her with carrying heavy goods from the county town market.

Zhou Xiaomai’s journey to the county town to exchange her silver note for smaller denominations led to a confrontation with her ex-husband, Han Yi, and his new fiancée, Huo Shuqi. Huo Shuqi attempted to manipulate the situation by portraying herself as a victim of parental pressure and feigning tears, hoping to garner sympathy and damage Zhou Xiaomai’s reputation. Zhou Xiaomai, unaccustomed to such social games, responded with sharp, direct insults, exposing the couple’s hypocrisy. Han Yi, embarrassed by her vulgar language and newfound assertiveness, dismissed her as a country bumpkin and warned Huo Shuqi to avoid her in the future. This encounter solidified Zhou Xiaomai’s resolve to never look back at her past life.

Back in the village, Zhou Xiaomai faced social ostracization and gossip. A widow named Zhang Chunyan, who had rumors linking her to Xiao Qingshan, warned Zhou Xiaomai to keep her distance from the hunter to protect her own reputation. Zhou Xiaomai rejected this interference, asserting her autonomy. She focused on repairing her new home and planning her future. With her household registration secured and her family cut off, she intended to transfer her registration to live independently. The story follows her transition from a discarded chongxi bride to a self-reliant woman navigating a feudal society with the skills and mindset of an apocalypse survivor, while building tentative connections with her isolated neighbors.