The Embroiderer Marries a Hunter, and Together They Build a Fortune

[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.