[Farming + building a fortune + cozy daily life + family squabbles + face-slapping + marriage first, love later + sweet romance + historical setting + devoted couple]
No nasty characters to worry about. The leads are equally devoted to each other.
Just after coming of age, Shen Tang became the most sought-after girl for miles around. It wasn’t because her father was especially influential, but because she had a pair of clever hands that could “spin gold.”
Before long, suitors were lining up at her door. The family of a newly qualified scholar in particular was determined to win her hand.
But their plan was to make her work like a beast once she married into the family, using her embroidery to earn money to support his studies.
When their proposal was rejected, they resorted to a vicious plot: they pushed her into a river, hoping the scholar could play the hero and save the beauty, ruining her reputation and forcing her to marry him.
The icy water swallowed her cries for help. Just as she was giving in to despair, a pair of iron-grip hands pulled her out.
Only later did Shen Tang learn that her rescuer was Lu Yan, the hunter from the neighboring village who was so poor he had nothing but bare walls.
When the scholar’s family showed up empty-handed to propose again, Lu Yan arrived at her door with lavish gifts.
Everyone laughed at the Shen family for being crazy. Why turn down a respectable scholar and marry their daughter off to a poor hunter?
Then came the day Lu Yan brought the betrothal gifts. He drove an ox cart right up to the Shen family’s gate.
When everyone saw the gifts overflowing the courtyard, the complete sets of jewelry, and the astronomical bride price, they changed their tune completely.
After they married, Lu Yan built her a perfect little home. They supported and warmed each other, and made a thriving life together with their own hands.
And that hunter, cold as iron in other people’s eyes, was more clingy than anyone once the door was shut.
It's good-looking. It's the kind of heart-warming story I want. I look forward to the follow-up development. I hope the author will continue to make the book warm and sweet, and don't make any top-notch stories or engage in female rivalry. I really want to see the follow-up development soon.
Delicate, the plot is not overwhelming, and it advances little by little, but the number of chapters is too few and not enough to read.
This book is an ancient story. There are parents, there are uncles, there are aunts, there are cousins, there are brothers, there is her, there is a husband, there are children, a son and a daughter.
This article by the author has more detailed descriptions. I hope it will be more pastoral and not get involved in court battles.
I like it very much. It looks very good.
Not bad, not bad, quite warm, but not enough.
The beginning is well written! Looking forward to the future
This is the first time I'm following a story. I've always read it to the end. So far, I've read it very well. The male and female protagonists have good personalities, but there's nothing super.
The writing and plot are vivid and lively, close to real life, and the writing is fluent. It is a very good work and deserves five-star praise.
Namo Amitabha
The hero's parents are probably not dead, and they probably have some background.
It's good-looking. It's the kind of heart-warming story I want. I look forward to the follow-up development. I hope the author will continue to make the book warm and sweet, and don't make any top-notch stories or engage in female rivalry. I really want to see the follow-up development soon.
Delicate, the plot is not overwhelming, and it advances little by little, but the number of chapters is too few and not enough to read.
This book is an ancient story. There are parents, there are uncles, there are aunts, there are cousins, there are brothers, there is her, there is a husband, there are children, a son and a daughter.
This article by the author has more detailed descriptions. I hope it will be more pastoral and not get involved in court battles.
I like it very much. It looks very good.
Not bad, not bad, quite warm, but not enough.
The beginning is well written! Looking forward to the future
This is the first time I'm following a story. I've always read it to the end. So far, I've read it very well. The male and female protagonists have good personalities, but there's nothing super.
The writing and plot are vivid and lively, close to real life, and the writing is fluent. It is a very good work and deserves five-star praise. Namo Amitabha
The hero's parents are probably not dead, and they probably have some background.