The Gentle, Beautiful Husband of a Mountain Hunter

Protagonists: Lin Yu and Lu Chen

[BL + transmigration + devoted to each other + sweet and cozy romance + rural life + food + family life + a slow, steady pace]

[No imperial exams, no palace intrigue, no starting a business, no invincible protagonist]

While traveling, Lin Yu is shoved into a river and transmigrates into the body of a young man who had tried to drown himself. He finds himself in a dynasty he's never heard of.

His stepmother wants to sell him to a man in his sixties as a lucky bride. Lin Yu takes the money and escapes in the middle of the night.

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The Lu couple in Taoyuan Village are worried sick. Their son, Lu Chen, can butcher pigs and hunt, and everyone in the village says he's capable. Yet he's twenty and still unmarried, having turned down one matchmaker after another.

Asked why, he only says he doesn't want to marry.

Well, there's no point asking. A bachelor of his age doesn't understand what it's like to have a spouse at home.

At least the Lu family is fairly well-off by village standards. But if he doesn't marry soon, in a couple of years no one may be willing to marry into the family. Ah, what a worry.

Father and son go hunting in the mountains, and Lu Chen sets a wild boar trap.

The next day, Old Master Lu finds Lin Yu caught in the trap. How strange! No one dares enter these mountains. Where did this person come from?

Old Master Lu: “Are you a pig spirit? A fox spirit? A rabbit spirit?” The lad doesn't look like a wild boar in human form.

Lin Yu is taken aback. “Uncle, what do you mean?”

“Uncle, I'm a man, not a woman.”

Lin Yu thinks marrying the uncle's son as his husband might be a bit of a stretch. But after meeting Lu Chen, he finds himself more willing.

Lu Chen, who always said he didn't want to marry, acts as if he never said a word about it after meeting Lin Yu.

He dotes on his husband while farming and providing for the family, and their life grows better and better.