A Young Husband in the Borderlands

[Artisan Hands, Stunning Beauty] [Devoted Husband, Rugged Man]

Hua Yan is a blogger who specializes in traditional crafts. After dying suddenly from overwork, he wakes up as a ger, someone who wanted to break off his engagement and had even threatened to hang himself.

Wait, what...?

You mean that broad-shouldered, slim-waisted, model-handsome rugged man in front of him is his fiancé?

Break off the engagement? Why would he do that?

Hua Yan immediately tidies up the family affairs and briskly marries the man himself.

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Xi Huan's family is dirt poor. He returned from the battlefield after fighting for his life, with a vicious temper to show for it. Everyone says he's a jinx, a demon straight out of hell.

Even his husband is someone he got in exchange for saving his life.

Now that the ger has taken a fancy to the town's scholar and doesn't want to marry him, Xi Huan's younger brother goes over to demand an explanation. Xi Huan also uses finding his brother as an excuse to hear what the ger really thinks.

But the moment the other man sees him, he can't look away. He stares straight at Xi Huan and says, "When are you finally coming to marry me?"

Xi Huan's scarred face looks bewildered.

This is the ger who was supposed to break off their engagement? Why isn't he anything like the rumors?

Only one thing was right. The young ger is fair-skinned and beautiful, and his smile lights up the whole room. He really does have a gorgeous face.

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When Xi Huan first brought him home as his husband, the villagers all mocked his poor taste.

But before long, that spoiled pretty boy rumored to be after a rich match was turning a huge dye vat with his own two hands.

Plants for their spirit, minerals for their bones.

In his hands, ordinary indigo plants became a flowing river of blue. Common safflowers bloomed beneath his fingertips in the most vivid rouge.

At first, he only traded his wares at the market for enough to buy a little meat. Later, the dowry lists of the capital's noble ladies all included "Hua-Xi Dye" from the borderlands, a treasure worth its weight in gold.

At first, the villagers sneered: "Has the Hua family's little husband gone mad? What good is all that fancy stinking water?"

Later, they lined up to submit apprenticeship petitions: "Master Hua, will you take students? The kind who can chop wood and feed horses, and bring their own food!"

Then some people came to pity Hua Yan, saying that such a lovely flower had been stuck in a pile of cow dung!

Hua Yan only smiled without a word.

On a winter night, unseen by anyone, the man who seemed as terrifying as a demon to everyone else held his delicate husband tightly in his arms. His rough hands carefully stroked the cracks on Hua Yan's hands, his heart aching for him.

"I'll do the hard work. You just lie down."

Hua Yan, spoiled until he can't take it anymore: QAQ... No, I want to work! Please let me work!

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Later, war fires spread along the border, and refugees scattered in every direction.

The imperial court couldn't be counted on, but Xi Huan and Hua Yan weren't worried.

They led the whole village deep into the mountains, reclaimed terraced fields, built homes and ponds, and carved out a refuge in the midst of desperation.

In a world thrown into chaos, this was the only place that remained a peaceful haven, warm with welcoming lights.

A kind-hearted beauty with skilled hands, the one who gets doted on x a blunt, rugged man who speaks harshly, or not at all, and just keeps his head down and works

~ The one who gets doted on has a little yellow heart but is also ambitious. He's kind without being a doormat or overthinking everything. He supports his family and grows rich through his craft. Both are each other's first and only. Happy ending.

~ Childbirth, farming and business, everyday family life, a touch of ensemble cast, and a few nasty supporting characters. At its heart, this is a warm, healing story about living a steady life.

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Coming soon, take a look: The Chubby Beauty's Hong Kong Cafe [The 1980s]

[Potential Superstar, Fierce Beauty Who Gets Doted On] x [Obsessive, Delicate, Cold Top Student]

Song Can, a competitive eater who devoured food at a frantic pace on livestream, collapsed amid the comments urging him to "Have another bowl!"

When he opened his eyes again, the sky was a brilliant blue, and a street-corner record shop was blasting disco music.

He had returned to the late 1980s, the darkest period of his life.

His father had died, he'd failed the college entrance exam, and his weight was nearly 180 kilos. Even the little snack shop his family depended on was being driven out of business.

In his previous life, he'd fallen apart. He'd even returned the heartfelt love letter, leaving Shen Che to close his eyes forever when disaster struck, carrying a love he had no way to express.

Staring at the face in the mirror, so swollen with fat it was hard to look at, Song Can slapped himself hard.

With a second chance at life, to hell with feeling inferior! He never wanted to be that coward hiding in the shadows again.

He saves his dad, kicks his awful relatives to the curb, and sheds all that weight. Song Can transforms completely.

Taking the apron from his mother's hands, he turns an inconspicuous roadside stall into the hottest Hong Kong cafe in town.

Their hot-and-cold pineapple buns are in constant demand, their stocking milk tea brings in a fortune every day, and even the richest man in the city has to queue for a taste.

As life gets better and better, Song Can stands in the sunlight and stops Shen Che's bicycle.

"Um, I've thought about it, and being gay is pretty trendy... Can I have my love letter back?"

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Shen Che is the school's famously untouchable beauty: rational and aloof, as if he were born to solve difficult math problems.

No one knows what darkness and obsession are hidden beneath his flawless appearance.

Song Can is his only connection to the ordinary, lively world.

He remembers every word Song Can has ever said, and every cold detail of the day Song Can rejected his confession.

But it doesn't matter. He bought plane tickets and brought a Coke laced with sleeping pills, planning to trick the insecure little pig onto the plane and take him abroad, where he could keep him locked by his side forever.

Who could have guessed that the stunning beauty, now thin as a lightning bolt, would reach out to stop him and ask for his love letter?

~ They dote on each other, childhood friends, mutual unrequited love, both each other's first and only, happy ending.

Theme: Strive with all your might for the life you want.