Yi Bailian transmigrated into a poor, illiterate country boy.
His family was so poor that his father brought home a stepmother, who came with a son around Yi Bailian's age. All the farmwork fell to Yi Bailian: plowing fields, planting crops, and tending vegetables. He was strong and good at farmwork, but he also had a face so pretty that people from all the surrounding villages couldn't help thinking about him and trying to trick him into sleeping with them. Unfortunately for them, as pretty as he was, he had a fiery temper. He was like a little dog baring its teeth, ready to bite and refusing to let go.
When his stepmother moved in, his biased, gambling-addicted father promptly made him drop out of high school, even though he hadn't graduated. He even sent Yi Bailian to work as a laborer at the mansion of the local richest family, the Yin family. Unable to read, Yi Bailian signed a contract for several years without even realizing it.
The Yin family had made their fortune overseas and had long since settled in a big city. They returned to their hometown to stay during holidays and festivals.
One year, after finishing the college entrance exams, the Yin family's young master, Yin Yuan, returned to the countryside alone to clear his head.
As a laborer, Yi Bailian was responsible for Yin Yuan's daily needs.
From behind the gauze curtains on the second floor, Yin Yuan watched Yi Bailian trimming the shrubs in the garden. The young man had healthy, sun-kissed skin. He worked quickly, a smile brightening his handsome face as he reached up to trim the tops of the shrubs, revealing a slender, strong waist with not an ounce of fat...
Yin Yuan narrowed his eyes. The desire he'd kept suppressed for years, ever since his awakening, burst forth now that he was an adult.
One night, as torrential rain poured and thunder and lightning raged, a cold wind blew the gauze curtains up and soaked them. In a daze, Yi Bailian spent an intensely wild night in the room with Yin Yuan.
Before long, Yin Yuan disappeared.
*
After Yi Bailian died, he never expected to be reborn in another world. But his family was so poor, and his gambling-addicted father was so hateful. The man had forced him to drop out of school and sold him to the Yin family for several years of labor. Furious, Yi Bailian chased his father around the village and beat him up. No one dared to intervene.
"Who's spreading such nonsense?!" Yi Bailian glared furiously at the villagers with his beautiful eyes, like a fierce little dog bristling and ready to bite off a chunk of someone.
They were afraid that if they tried to talk him down, he'd bite them too. They'd all seen what Yi Bailian was capable of.
But the contract had already been signed, so he had no choice but to work for the Yin family. At least their conditions were pretty good.
After working for the Yin family for a few years, he saved up money for travel. He planned to collect his wages after the young master left, then go find work in the city and save up some money. He wanted to get an education, too, so he wouldn't remain illiterate.
The Yin family's young master had finished the college entrance exams. He was a prospective university student from the city, handsome and refined, with impeccable manners and an eloquent way of speaking.
Yi Bailian pretended not to care about such highly educated people, but he always stole a few extra glances from the corner of the room when Yin Yuan played the piano, wishing he could do that too.
Then one day, Yin Yuan offered to teach him to read and play the piano. Unable to resist his curiosity, Yi Bailian went to meet him.
He had never imagined that someone as educated as Yin Yuan could possibly be interested in a country boy like him.
Then one night, he was led to bed in a daze, and woke up the next day with an aching back. Before long, the culprit disappeared.
And he ended up pregnant.
He raised the child on his own. Six years later, he was temporarily working as a waiter at a banquet in the city when the two elite families announced their engagement.
Yi Bailian watched Yin Yuan appear at the center of the banquet, dashing and graceful, with the Jiang family's young master, Jiang Yu, as his fiance.
Suddenly, Yi Bailian remembered the last dog-blood romance novel he'd read in his previous life: the story of Yin Yuan, the Yin family's young master, and Jiang Yu, the Jiang family's young master, falling in love after an arranged marriage.
Yi Bailian wasn't even a character in the original story. He was more of a nobody than a disposable side character.
So he'd transmigrated into a book.
Couple: A country boy with a short fuse, illiterate and as feisty as a little dog x A refined, well-educated, openhearted young master
[Reading Guide]
1. A groveling-and-winning-back-your-lover story.
2. The protagonist isn't a traditional rough-hewn man. He's beautiful, with a fit, strong build, and can handle farmwork. But he isn't burly. The "rough" part refers to his living conditions.
3. The protagonist dropped out of high school and is illiterate. He isn't well educated and has the temper of a feisty little dog.
Theme: A country beauty has his own special charm