After Marrying a Hunter Said to Bring Bad Luck

New upcoming novels: Marrying Up and A Survival Journal in the Beast World. Please add them to your reading lists! Blurbs are at the very bottom~?

Zhou Yan is tall, sturdy, handsome, and an excellent hunter. Anywhere you go, he would be considered an ideal husband. Unfortunately, he is famous across the surrounding villages for bringing death to his wives.

His first betrothed drowned in an accident just two days after the engagement gifts were sent. The day after meeting his second betrothed, she was bitten by a rabid dog, contracted rabies, and died.

These back-to-back coincidences earned him a reputation as a wife-killer. No family with a daughter or son of marriageable age dared to discuss a match with his family.

Just as he was about to become a lifelong bachelor, a matchmaker and his mother secretly brought home a young male spouse from the neighboring village who couldn't find a match.

Zhou Yan had intended to refuse, but when he met the young man's timid, tear-filled eyes, he inexplicably agreed.

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An Ruan grew up without his father's affection, and his mother died when he was young. His stepmother tormented him every day. Years of malnutrition left him short and dark-skinned, and his quiet, timid nature meant no one came asking for his hand even after he reached marrying age.

His stepmother treated him worse and worse, scolding and beating him as a worthless burden.

An Ruan thought he would simply have to keep living like this. But then his stepmother married him off to a hunter in the neighboring village, notorious for killing his wives, in exchange for ten taels of silver in betrothal gifts.

He had heard the hunter not only brought death to his wives but also had a violent temper and beat his women and male spouses. An Ruan was terrified and anxious every day, but didn't dare run away. With tears in his eyes, he was sent to the hunter's home.

He prepared himself for a life of beatings and hunger. Instead, he was neither beaten nor starved. His hunter husband treasured and pampered him, taking him into his hands and caring for him until he grew fair and plump. Their life got better with every passing day.

A self-effacing, timid bottom x a quiet, taciturn top

P.S. A height difference and a gentle, slow-paced domestic story.

---- Upcoming Novel 1: Marrying Up ----

Ji Xingyan is a frail young man whose parents have died, and whose greedy relatives are eyeing him hungrily. From his cousin, he learns that his uncles and aunts are discussing how to marry him off so they can seize the family estate his father left behind.

Ji Xingyan turns his attention to the tall, sharp-eyed hunter next door, who has a leg injury.

The hunter appeared in the village out of nowhere a month ago. He keeps to himself, and his fierce appearance makes people wary of provoking him.

Unwilling to be forced into marriage, Ji Xingyan works up the courage to visit him and asks in a trembling voice, "Could you... marry me?"

Zhao Xinggui looks down at the young man whose eyes have turned red after saying just one sentence to him, as if he might burst into tears at any moment. "..."

He's so delicate, he would probably break if Zhao Xinggui so much as touched him.

Thinking the other man had refused, Ji Xingyan lowers his head in disappointment. Then the cold, impassive man says, "All right."

Within a few days, the two are making wedding preparations, much to the fury of Ji Xingyan's greedy relatives. They insult Zhao Xinggui behind his back and to his face, claiming he only wants Ji Xingyan's few poor acres of land and cursing the couple's marriage to fail.

They never imagined that Zhao Xinggui would use his excellent hunting skills to nurse the sickly Ji Xingyan back to health, leaving him healthy and delicate, then take him to the city to enjoy a life of comfort.

Once in the city, Ji Xingyan uses his excellent cooking to set up a little food stall, quickly winning over the city's residents. His business grows from a small stall into a thriving restaurant, expanding until he eventually opens a branch in the capital beneath the Son of Heaven himself.

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By appearances, Zhao Xinggui is a hunter with a leg injury. In truth, he is the current emperor.

But the emperor's claim to the throne is illegitimate, and the literati denounce him as a tyrant.

After an assassination attempt during a secret inspection tour, he decides to turn the plot to his advantage, faking his death and hiding in a remote village while secretly eliminating his political enemies.

Everything proceeds according to plan, until one day the timid, beautiful young spouse next door knocks on his door and asks him to marry him.

Zhao Xinggui inexplicably agrees. He tells himself he is using Ji Xingyan as a decoy to keep spies from investigating him. But as he gets more and more attached, his feelings gradually change.

A timid, gentle, beautiful homemaker bottom x a ruthless, cruel, dark-hearted top

---- Upcoming Novel 2: A Survival Journal in the Beast World ----

Ji Yu is an art student. While hiking up a mountain to gather reference material, he accidentally steps into the Beast World.

Before he can even realize he's transmigrated, he looks up to see a gigantic flood wave dozens of meters high crashing toward him.

Ji Yu's vision goes black. He thinks he's done for, but in the blink of an eye, an enormous silver wolf as tall as a two-story building has him in its jaws and is running for its life.

The silver wolf carries him to the highest peak, where dozens of giant beasts of different species have gathered.

Ji Yu thinks he has landed in a prehistoric world. After all, he even saw dinosaurs while they were fleeing!

But once the flood recedes, the surviving giant beasts begin chattering away in human speech. The silver wolf that saved him transforms into a handsome man two meters tall!

This time, Ji Yu really faints.

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Ji Yu had lived a peaceful, uneventful life for eighteen years. He never imagined he would transmigrate into a world of beastfolk, body and all.

This world has just endured a great flood. Food shortages and rampant epidemics follow, and the conditions for survival are dire.

The one bit of good news is that Ji Yu's backpack came with him. His phone has a full battery but no signal, though he did download plenty of encyclopedias. He also has an extra-large power bank and a brand-new sketchbook five centimeters thick.

With such a huge golden finger, surviving in the Beast World should be a piece of cake, right?

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In the Beast World, both beastfolk and sub-beastfolk can transform into animals. Ji Yu is the only completely ordinary human.

All he can do is sigh as he pets the fluffy beasts, clears land, farms, and builds infrastructure, turning a tiny tribe of just a few dozen people into a thriving town!

One day, sitting atop the silver wolf's head and looking down at Sunlight City below, Ji Yu feels his spirits soar. He stands tall and sweeps his arm out grandly. "Look, this is the empire I conquered for you!"

Silver wolf: "..."

Yu is talking nonsense again.

An optimistic, cheerful, lively bottom x a cold on the outside but warm-hearted, loyal silver wolf top

Theme: Keep your feet on the ground and work hard. Diligence is rewarded, and effort brings a happy life.