Lin Yan (Yuan Jing), who transmigrates into the body of a little beggar in ancient times, faces a hellish situation from the start: both parents are dead, he's freezing and starving, and his vision is blurring from hunger. The only “good news”? Apparently, he has a betrothed he's never met, chosen by their parents years ago.
The bad news is that the betrothed is a man, Shen Lie, a hunter from the neighboring village! The original owner couldn't take it and drowned himself, leaving his precarious body to Lin Yan's modern soul.
“Both families have no elders left. Isn't the engagement just a scrap of paper? Was that really worth killing yourself over?!” Lin Yan rants inwardly, but he has no time to dwell on it.
The icy wind cuts like a knife, his stomach rumbles, and death is just around the corner.
Survive! Dragging his frozen body along, he heads for the only place that might have food and shelter: the house of Shen Lie, the hunter at the foot of the mountain, who's said to be a man of few words and hard as nails.
As expected, Shen Lie is silent and stern as a mountain when they meet, his gaze cold enough to freeze a man.
No questions, no small talk, just one low, deep word: “Wash.”
A bowl of hot porridge and an old set of clothes are the first hints of warmth Lin Yan experiences after transmigrating, though perhaps his frozen body can't be trusted to judge.
He has no golden finger, only the artist's eye and mind he brought from his previous life.
In a world where men can legally marry men but still face an awkward social position, Lin Yan can only cling to the one skill he has: observing, thinking, and doing.
With charcoal from the fire, he sketches the first glimmer of hope onto a discarded plank. Drawing on the wisdom of his previous life, he tries to understand this taciturn, wolf-like “husband's family” and improve their life of alternating hunger and fullness.
Shen Lie: broad-shouldered and strong-backed, a skilled hunter, except...
Why is it that when he skins
It feels like reading a Chinese textbook. It uses a lot of modification techniques and describes the inner content in a large way. It feels..., Although the content is good, but... It feels weird to read this kind of "Chinese textbook" on Tomato.