A Lean Horse for a Wife

Coming next: A Farm-Born Son for a Wife. You can add it to your collection in advance from my author page.

Working from dawn to dusk in the fields isn’t frightening. What’s frightening is losing your freedom and becoming a farm-born servant.

Overnight, Yan Wu found herself reborn as a farm-born servant on a manor belonging to the powerful Ding’an Marquis family.

Yan Wu thought her situation was truly miserable.

She lived in a low mud hut dug into the farmland and ate coarse rice and tree roots.

Worst of all, she had no future to look forward to.

She worked hard all year, yet could barely keep herself fed and clothed.

Even with memories from two lifetimes, Yan Wu had no one to recognize her talent, and nowhere to put it to use.

All she could do was struggle in the dirt day after day alongside the older generation.

Worse still, the Ding’an Marquis died, and the manor was about to be divided up. Everyone there was in a panic.

At that moment, the widowed mother and orphaned children of the marquis’s third branch inherited the manor...

Xiao Boyan had a declining maternal family, a father who died young, and a sickly constitution.

In his previous life, the eldest branch used his frail health as an excuse to take all his property.

After he died, his mother was even reduced to earning a living washing clothes at a nunnery.

Reborn into this life, Xiao Boyan knew he would die young at twenty.

So he set out early to find a place where his mother could live out her later years in peace.

He settled on Heping Manor, two days’ travel from the capital, and set off there with his mother and all their possessions.

Xiao Boyan had planned to die young, but only later realized that he was living longer and better than ever.

This is a story about a noble young master waiting to die and a farm-born servant who wants good food, clothes, and a home. They support each other and make their lives better and better.

[Story blurb]

[Female Lead] A renowned courtesan from Guangling, skilled in business. Su Yue entered the courtesan house at eight, and by sixteen, her name was known throughout the land after the Peach Blossom Banquet. She came from the modern world and spent eight years learning to endure and compromise with this world, quietly holding on to her desire to escape and giving in to everything that made her feel out of place.

But when she met the second-generation playboy Qin Wang of Wei, all her plans fell apart.

He was a man with a “split personality.” Su Yue had thought her future would be spent acting out a tale of wives and concubines fighting in his household, while she kept him happy, got her contract of servitude, and then ran away.

Who could have guessed that Qin Wang, whose father was the emperor, whose mother was the empress, and whose older brother was the crown prince, would fall from power and be exiled? Su Yue had served him for only one night, and hadn’t even completed the whole deed, yet she too was exiled as his concubine.

Su Yue thought the years in exile would be a story of hard work. But why did Qin Wang always beat her to every money-making idea she came up with? That would have been bad enough, but every time she had an idea, he would get started and carry it out before her.

With nowhere else to turn, Su Yue simply sat in Qin Wang’s arms and let him take care of everything.

A story about a man reborn who pampers the girl who was his guardian angel in his previous life. Both have their flaws, but they slowly grow and become better people.

Theme: Sharing hardship and joy, and finding sweetness after bitterness.