Also known as The Protagonist Next Door Has a System
Blurb:
Chu Ming, a lazy glutton, is reborn. When he opens his eyes, he finds himself in a strange home. The room is pitch-black, without even a lamp. It has a thatched roof and mud walls, and the bed beneath him is hard as a board. The place is completely bare, clearly dirt poor.
Outside, someone is cursing in a thick accent. It seems... they're cursing him?
He's become the third son of the family, “Chu Ming”!!!
Chu Ming feels as if a bolt of lightning has struck him. He can't believe his luck is so bad that he's been reborn into a poor rural family in some unknown dynasty.
What's worse, the original owner saved a man from a minority ethnic group who fell into a river, all in the name of “helping others.” People saw the two of them “holding each other,” and forced them together as a couple. Now Chu Ming is a married man with a “husband,” and this bargain-bin husband seems even lazier than he is!
Before he can recover from the shock, he notices that the young man living across from them looks at the two husbands strangely. Why does his name, and the village setting, seem so much like the urban power fantasy he read before he transmigrated, about a male protagonist with a System who makes a fortune?
OMG, could he have not only been reborn, but also transmigrated into a book? The kicker is, why isn't he the one with the System and its golden finger?
Content warning: The man from the minority ethnic group can bear children, and will do so later in the story.
Theme: Even a bickering life together can be a happy one