A Gentle Cook Goes to the Countryside, and the Tough, Taciturn Man Falls for Her Day and Night

[Marriage First, Love Later / Size and Age Gap / Slow-Burning Romance / Both Pure] Gentle, sweet beauty who transmigrates into a book vs. rugged, wild, dark-skinned country man Su Yiyi woke up one morning to find she had transmigrated into a period novel, where she had become the ill-fated fourth female character. After catching her fiancé, Li Zhicai, fooling around with another woman, she publicly called him out and decisively ended their engagement. Her stepmother, Miao Yulan, cared only about the Li family’s bride price. She pressured Su Yiyi to swallow her anger and urged her to make do and marry him. Su Yiyi saw right through them. “I don’t want the bride price, and I’m done living in this house!” She took her food rations and savings and fled that suffocating home in the middle of the night. Everyone gossiped that a woman who’d broken off her engagement and was living alone would inevitably have a hard time. People said Lu Xiao was unsociable, fierce, and difficult to get along with. His family was poor and lived in hardship, and any woman who married into it would have a miserable life. Su Yiyi braced herself for hardship, hoping only to find a safe place to call home. But after they married, life turned out nothing like she’d expected. The man was quiet, but he saved the best food for her, never let her do any heavy work, and protected her in every way. There was just one thing Su Yiyi couldn’t understand: The villagers said Lu Xiao was cold and uninterested in women. So why did he turn into a beast that had been lying in wait for ages every night, clinging to her until she couldn’t escape? Su Yiyi’s cheeks burned as she pushed at him. “Can you behave yourself for once?” Lu Xiao leaned over and pulled her into his arms, his voice low and husky. “I can’t. The moment I see you, I lose control.”