Ruthless Frontier Soldier: I Pick Up a Fallen Empress on Day One

In the Yu Dynasty, founded just over ten years ago, noble clans held power, ruling through civil governance while ignoring military affairs. The border troops were left unpaid year after year, their lives worth no more than grass.

In his previous life, Shen Lie was a king among special forces soldiers. After transmigrating, he became a taciturn border soldier at the forefront of Heihe Dun in Yulin Guard, someone everyone bullied.

One day, the hundred-household office distributes captive Xianbei women for the soldiers at each fortress to choose as slaves or wives. Whoever takes a woman will go to Black Wind Valley that very night as a death soldier.

The fortress commander, Zhao Shankui, pushes Shen Lie forward, intending to make him take an absolute beauty home, only for him to die in the valley.

But Shen Lie immediately sees that among that group of filthy foreign women, there is one who seems the ugliest at first glance, yet actually has the most outstanding bone structure and the most noble bearing.

He chooses her.

What he does not know is that this woman is not a foreign captive at all, but the final emperor of the Qian Dynasty—the empress who briefly ascended the throne on the day her nation fell.

Learned and proud, she originally slipped back into the Yu Dynasty to contact loyal ministers and restore her country, only to be captured on the border by accident.

That night, Black Wind Valley caught fire.

Everyone waited for Shen Lie to die.

No one expected that from that night on, the border would lose an easy target to be bullied and gain a ruthless man who would keep the noble clans of the world awake at night.