One Smile from My Husband, and the System Goes Wild

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Shen Yan, an overworked champion from the twenty-first century, dies from working overtime and transmigrates into the body of a poor scholar who has just married into a family in Qinghe County, Great Jing.

Life as a live-in son-in-law is no picnic. His husband, Xie Qingchi, is stunningly beautiful and aloof, but he is mute and has a younger brother in tow. His clan members mock him as a “jinx reincarnated.” Everyone in the village is waiting to see when Shen Yan will be driven away by hunger.

On his first day after transmigrating, Shen Yan looks at the destitute home before him and his husband’s cool, distant eyes. A cold mechanical voice rings in his mind:

[Ding! The “Cherishing Your Husband Is Productivity” System has successfully bound itself to you!]

[Beginner mission: Make your husband smile from the heart. Reward: one set of “Potato Cultivation Techniques”!]

Shen Yan: “!!!”

To keep from starving and claim his reward, he pulls out all the stops to cheer his husband up. He weaves grasshoppers from straw for him, carries him ten li along a mountain road to town to sell firewood, and spends his first earnings on candied hawthorns for him...

Xie Qingchi looks at the silly man before him, whose heart and eyes are filled with nothing but him. At last, the corners of his mouth lift ever so slightly.

[Ding! Husband’s mood +10. Reward: “Beginner Candy-Making Technique”!]

From then on, Shen Yan never looks back on his path of doting on his husband. The people of Qinghe County discover that the son-in-law they once looked down on first uses a humble piece of malt sugar to open the doors of the town’s pastry shop, then invents translucent rock sugar that has the capital’s nobles clamoring for more.