A Former Maid's Everyday Married Life in the Countryside

[Historical romance and farming + no transmigration + no rebirth + no spatial dimension + a slow, steady pace + making a good life one day at a time] Guihua is a maid hired by the Li family in town. When her contract ends, she packs her things and heads home. As soon as she arrives, her fourth younger sister tells her that their useless father is planning to sell her. Guihua is nothing like her two ill-fated elder sisters, who were sold off at someone else’s whim. She quickly picks a husband herself and cuts ties with her family. She plans to pay her husband, Chang Shun, some silver once she gets free, then let them each live their own lives and divorce when the time is right. But the more she sees of Chang Shun, the more appealing he becomes. Everyone thinks he’s a poor farmer with no parents, but who would have guessed he can escort caravans, hunt, farm, and make money? Whatever other families in the village have, he has too. And whatever they don’t have, he has that as well. What delights Guihua even more is that she’s the one he’s always cherished in his heart. A maid from a wealthy household has seen plenty and knows how to keep her wits about her. Returning to the countryside is hardly a challenge for her. She makes a good life for herself and doesn’t forget to help her sisters out of their hardships, but she kicks away anyone who tries to take advantage of her or harbors ulterior motives. She hasn’t had enough of her good life yet. She has no time to play the saint. But gentle, kind, and beautiful as she is, how could Chang Shun be the only man who adores her? The Li family’s third young master, a handsome, pitiful man who was tricked into going to the capital to sit the imperial exams, has come back to fight Chang Shun for his wife. Guihua: Thank you, but please leave me out of it. The beautiful, unhinged third young master: “I don’t want you as my concubine anymore. Now I just want to be yours.” The tall, burly Chang Shun: “Dream on. Guihua belongs to me alone.” Guihua prays someone will take the clingy third young master away. He’s disrupting the peaceful rural life she and Chang Shun have built.