(Male-male romance featuring a married-in husband; no farming; includes a child; a fairly leisurely pace)
Jiang Chunya was the best-looking young man in Liangshan Village. He had been set up on two blind dates, but neither had worked out: someone in one family broke a leg, while the other family suffered a bereavement. When the Lin family, who were on bad terms with the Jiangs, heard about it, they spread Jiang Chunya’s “husband-killer” reputation far and wide without sparing a word. The young men who had been happy that the Jiang family’s young man was still unmarried all scattered at once. The Jiang family didn’t insist on finding him a match. They could afford to feed one more mouth, after all. That was until the village chief from the neighboring village sent a matchmaker to propose a match...
