(The male leads are each other's only love. The male lead is a rough, brawny man, while the diligent one is the receptive partner. The cover shows the top before he transmigrated.)
Chen Cong, a powerful man who dies in an accident at a construction site, opens his eyes to find himself a slave waiting to be sold.
Standing six-foot-three with a powerful build, a fierce gaze, and a fearsome air, he's unwanted. If no one buys him, he'll be beaten to death and tossed into a mass grave.
Lin Yan, the handsome tofu seller from West Street, watches him for a long time, then spends nearly all the hard-earned money he's saved over half a year. After haggling, he grits his teeth and buys him.
Chen Cong thinks he's run into a rich young master, but when he gets home, the familiar poverty of his past life comes rushing back.
With both parents dead, Lin Yan struggles to make ends meet, tending a dilapidated tofu shop with holes in its walls and raising his little sister. Just because he's handsome, local thugs harass him at his door every day, and wealthy families even try to force him into marriage as a male wife. He's endured humiliation after humiliation.
Chen Cong laughs on the spot. “Isn't this right up my alley?”
Before becoming a construction worker, he'd been a street thug. What kind of scene hadn't he seen?
He beats every thug who comes looking for trouble, then happens to meet a captain from the Patrol Office. He deals with bandits and wealthy merchants, and plans to let Lin Yan focus on making tofu. But then Chen Cong discovers that Lin Yan is exceptionally talented at studying.
New goal! From now on, Lin Yan has to pass the highest imperial examination!
Lin Yan lives up to expectations and studies all the way to the capital. The whole family moves there, only for a wealthy merchant to suddenly show up and claim that Chen Cong is the child he'd lost years ago. He even has a marriage arranged for him with a noblewoman?
With Hanlin Academician Lin's marriage about to fall through and all of the capital waiting to laugh, Chen Cong sneers.
That bald old man drove out his first wife and seized her dowry. First, give the dowry back! Then he'll file a lawsuit in return. No one is going to stop him from becoming the wife of a Ministry of Revenue official!
It's very well written. I love this kind of food-themed story. It's also quite novel to have some police and undercover elements mixed in, haha. I really like the characters' personalities, one a rough and tough guy and the other a clever young husband. It's actually very well written. However, so far, I feel that my impression of Chen Yan hasn't reached the level of two strong characters yet.
It was quite interesting, though, because it was a local imperial examination, so there weren't any special advantages or advantages. However, after reading it, I felt it was neither particularly good nor bad; it wasn't terrible or poorly written, so I gave it four stars.
Overall, it's pretty good. The romance is smooth, but the plot is a bit sparse, and the ending isn't detailed enough, which is a little disappointing. The outline is still good though, so I'll give it five stars.
Overall, it's pretty good, nothing too serious. Although some of the conflict scenes weren't great, the overall quality is still excellent.
The pacing is fine, but there are a few minor issues with the transitions between some parts.
Watching during leisure time There's a discrepancy in Yunniang's age. There are also some common-sense issues: ancient China didn't have sealing wax; they usually used mud lacquer or some kind of glue I've forgotten the exact type of. The sealing wax strips and the use of a stamp to press out circles mentioned in the text are Western imports.
It's pretty good, but there's not enough text, so surprisingly not many people are reading it 🤦
Why is the rating so low? The author has a lot of knowledge, but there's just too little material to read.
Not bad, a steady stream of income.
Okay, writing is never easy, a relatively complete story