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Low-magic fantasy, farming and wuxia
Lin Mo transmigrated to ancient times and became an impoverished farmer with nothing to his name. His family was so poor they had only a few thatched huts, and he was practically starving to death.
Fortunately, the villagers were good people. They pooled their money to get him a wife. She was beautiful and cold, a useless mute, and a woman forced to dress as a man after being drugged.
Lin Mo: ...
Since they'd already gotten married, what else could he do? He'd just have to make a good life together with her.
So Lin Mo worked hard in the fields and tried every way he could to support his family, all so he could nurse his wife back to health.
As the days passed, color slowly returned to his wife's face, she grew more cheerful, and her belly gradually swelled. Only then did Lin Mo realize that men in this world could get pregnant too.
Just as Lin Mo thought about the new baby on the way and how he'd have to work even harder to raise their child, his pregnant wife got into a fight with someone. That's when he learned that his wife had once been the shining light of the righteous sects, and was the protagonist of a story that tortured its lead.
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Chu Xuezhu was the leader of the righteous sects, an unquestioned pillar of the prestigious clans.
In the battle at Suye Tian, he turned the tide. He fought the Demon Cult Leader for eight days and nights on Fenghuang Mountain, finally foiling the Demon Cult's conspiracy and saving the world from disaster. But his cultivation was destroyed, and he fell from grace.
He had thought that in the end, he would simply find a snowy mountain and live out his days alone. He never imagined that his younger brother, whom he treasured like a jewel, would consider him a burden and conspire with the Demon Cult to offer him as a gift to their new leader.
To humiliate him, the Demon Cult members dressed him as a bride and sent him to an impoverished farmer at the foot of the mountain, then forced him to drink a fertility potion.
Chu Xuezhu was utterly despairing and intended to end his own life, but then he realized that the impoverished farmer seemed unusual.
He slowly fell in love, but neither the righteous nor the evil factions would let him live in peace.
Chu Xuezhu simply took up his sword again and stood in front of his honest, gentle husband, ready to wipe out every enemy who came to attack them.
But the gentle husband who cooked for him and reminded him to dress warmly in cold weather merely raised a hand, and countless Imperial Guards rushed out to arrest all the enemies from both the righteous and evil factions.
Chu Xuezhu: ???
Lin Mo looked innocent. "Honey, don't get the wrong idea. I thought I'd transmigrated into a farming story about making the family rich and getting involved in court politics. I recently became a favorite of the emperor, so I suppose you could say I'm a powerful minister now."
--2022.2.3
Premise: Farming our way to prosperity, with a warm home, a wife, and children