After Retirement, My Childhood Friend Played Me

Currently filling in the gaps in a farming novel: ★ Please add *The Husband I Picked Up Is a Prince [Farming]* to your collection.

The next-next novel will be a farming story from the gong's perspective: ★ *The Son-in-Law Tears the Scumbag Apart [Farming]*. One-line synopsis: Ancient-era ABO. After being reborn, the son-in-law cuts a swath through the world and wins his beauty's heart.

After five long years of warfare came to an end, Shen Kongqing returned to his hometown with the two thousand taels he had earned at the cost of his life.

After once passing through the gates of death, he stopped caring about life and death. As soon as he returned home, he started to slack off, using his wealth to enjoy retirement.

He raised chickens and ducks. His biggest daily worry was probably that he seemed to like his childhood friend a little more than the day before.

His childhood friend was obedient, adorable, and charming, and he had the looks to match. Before leaving home, Shen Kongqing had said he would marry him.

But his childhood friend was engaged to his cousin. Word was that they were deeply in love and about to marry, so Shen Kongqing, who could not bring himself to steal another man's love, decided he might as well lie flat.

But why did the childhood friend who was supposedly so close to his cousin keep showing up in front of him?

His childhood friend gazed at him with pure, innocent eyes, while Shen Kongqing grew more and more obsessed.

It was only later that Shen Kongqing learned that the childhood friend he had imagined was quite different from the real one.

Shou's perspective:

Ye Tiandong had someone he had fallen for, but before he could confess, that person went off to war. With no other choice, he put on a show with his friend and waited for him to come back.

Ye Tiandong acted so obedient and sweet. That was exactly what his crush liked about him.

But...

Ye Tiandong looked at Brother Qing, whom he had pushed against the door, and silently took a step back. Acting obedient and sweet was something he could do.

Content notes: 1. The gong has a minor golden finger: he is a general.

2. The gong and shou only have each other. The engagement between the shou and his cousin has its own hidden circumstances, known only to their two families at the time the story takes place. There is no plot in which the gong steals his younger brother's wife. Both characters have very sound values, and they have mutual secret crushes, but the longest road the gong has ever taken is the one full of his wife's schemes.

3. This is the fourth version of the blurb. The earlier versions have been saved.

4. The gong and shou were both seriously injured and are in poor health according to the setting. This is how he successfully became a lazy fish and retired early. His family dotes on him, though, and later he may even live off the shou. There will also be a few scenes featuring a secondary couple: the gong's younger brother.

5. Farming + male pregnancy + childbearing + the gong raises the child and the shou supports the family. Since the younger brother is a xiucai, the story may touch on court politics, but not in much detail.

6. Although this is labeled as being from the gong's perspective, there may also be scenes from the shou's perspective.

Recommending some upcoming novels by friends:

1. "I Woke Up to Find My Food Had Conquered the World" by Bai Gua. One-line synopsis: Wake up, and the world is yours. Devoted gong x beautiful shou. ID: 5037024

2. "My Foolish Husband Has Many Tricks", also known as "After the Heavenly Tribulation, This Snake Immortal Became a Female Beast?!" by Bai Gua. Beastman gong x snake immortal shou. ID: 5423914

3. *The Snake Demon’s Husband for Good Luck [Farming]* by Xiao Yu Bing Gan. One-line synopsis: A snake demon tricks a gentle, frail young husband into marriage. ID: 7467078

Theme: Only by living today well can you discover how wonderful tomorrow will be.