[Fated match + farming + food + married first, love later]
Gu Xue transmigrates into a book and becomes a little cripple who has been tormented by her awful uncle and aunt for ten years.
They take the house her parents left her and seize her fields. Then she is matched by the authorities with a grizzled hunter from the neighboring village, a man nearing thirty!
The whole village thinks her life is over, and that she will spend her days slaving away after she marries him.
But who could have guessed
On their wedding night, he lifts her red bridal veil and says in a voice that makes her melt, “Careful, don’t fall.”
Gu Xue: Oh my gosh, I could listen to that voice for the rest of my life!
Later, she turns the wild fruits nobody wants from the mountains into loquat paste and sells it in the county town, where wealthy merchants compete to offer her higher prices!
Her awful uncle and aunt come to cause trouble, claiming she is a daughter of the Gu family and that her earnings belong to her maiden family. Before Gu Xue can say a word, her hunter husband behind her coolly draws his hunting knife
“Ah Xue is one of the Qiao family now. Come back again and see what happens.”
The villagers all say the taciturn hunter looks at his little wife with such tenderness, it could drip right off him.
She takes down the awful relatives, gets rich and supports her husband, and even turns this gruff hunter who can’t sweet-talk into a devoted, doting husband!
