The Husband Who Came from Elsewhere Cooks and Makes a Home

Blurb: In her previous life, Tan Xuran was too foolish. She thought that by remarrying, she would secure both a woman's dowry and her husband's future. She never expected her husband's heart to be as hard as iron. One red bridal sedan chair was all it took to sell her into a brothel. Chen Shewei, meanwhile, used the money he made from her body to marry a new bride and live the good life. Reborn, with fate turned on its head, Chen Shewei's soul went to hell, and another wandering spirit took up residence in his body. Tan Xuran eyed the strange spirit warily. He was probably a fool, right? Every day he grinned at her as if he'd found a treasure. He was much tougher than the original owner of the body, able to write, draw, argue, and work in the fields. He was even happy to spend time with manure, piglets, and farmhands. They say a gentleman stays out of the kitchen, but this one took care of all three meals every day. Tan Xuran struggled to lower her guard, but life at home kept getting better, her standing in the clan kept rising, and her daughter was always following her father around. Keeping him around for a bit of amusement might not be so bad. But this baffling spirit grew sillier by the day. One moment, he was standing up to the clan elders and her uncle to avenge her. The next, for no reason at all, he was clutching her leg, weeping as he said, "Wife, I'm so glad you never had your feet bound!" A pure white-rabbit-faced, cold, ruthless, and calculating heroine, reborn into a household intrigue story X A silly, obedient, devoted-to-the-heroine hero, a transmigrated agricultural scientist in a food story Set in the Ming Dynasty. I'll try to research the era carefully, and ask for your understanding if I get anything wrong. Coming soon: modern romance My Seasonal Boyfriend Coming soon: historical romances New Rain on Tender Green and The Marquis's Household Women Become Commoners Blurb for My Seasonal Boyfriend: Li Xiao, worn down by her landlord and her job, gets the news that she's been laid off with N+2 compensation. She struggles to hold back her rising grin, takes the money, and leaves. After arranging pet transport for her tortoise and kitty, Li Xiao returns to her hometown in the middle of a snowstorm. Li Xiao grew up in this little house by the stream at the foot of the mountain, but she hasn't been back in five whole years, not since her grandmother died. The wooden floorboards, scrubbed clean by the snow, reveal their simple, rustic grain. Li Xiao walks barefoot across them, hopping around in delight. She'd thought her hometown was full of everything she loved: cats, tortoises, chickens, geese, vegetables, flowers, and fruit trees. Happily, Li Xiao pulls two eggs from the grass, and comes face-to-face with someone familiar, wearing a stormy expression. 'Ah, I forgot about this guy.' It was wrong of Li Xiao to flirt with Qixing and then run off. But it was mutual, so he doesn't need to act like he's here to settle an old score, does he? Li Xiao saves up a basket of eggs to make up for the years of his youth, but Qixing is too greedy. He takes the eggs, and now he wants her too. In spring, the grass grows lush, and the wooden steps outside Li Xiao's house begin to rot. Qixing repairs them one by one. In summer, the rain pours down, and the roof leaks while the plaster peels from the walls. Qixing climbs up to replace the tiles and paints the walls from a ladder. In autumn, the fruit ripens and the leaves fall. The courtyard is buried under dead branches and yellow leaves. Qixing sweeps them up for compost and picks fruit to make preserves. In winter, the snow falls silently. The fruit trees in Li Xiao's yard need to be wrapped for warmth. Qixing comes back and ties them up with layer upon layer of hemp rope. After doing all that, all he gets from Li Xiao is: "Huh? I thought the village committee was taking care of it." Blurb for New Rain on Tender Green: He Qingyuan thinks everything is pretty good. Spending more than ten years with her grandmother in their Jiangnan hometown was pretty good. Returning to the capital to live with her parents, brother, and sister is pretty good too. As for her future brother-in-law suddenly becoming a Daoist priest, her older sister thinks it's pretty good, so He Qingyuan thinks it's pretty good too. But the marriage was arranged by their parents, and it's not easy to call it off. General Zhu has married twice more, has many wives and children, and his household is a tangled mess. Her mother insists that she will not accept the bloodline of a wicked woman! Then the Zhu family suddenly finds a son who went missing during a military campaign years ago. They say he was raised in a wolf's den for three or five years, so he's as wild as a wolf and howls like a beast whenever the moon is full. The young ladies of the capital all feel sorry for He Qingyuan, but she thinks it would be pretty good if Zhu Yunlai really did have a tail. Only after their wedding does He Qingyuan learn that the rumors spread by her stepmother-in-law aren't entirely made up. Zhu Yunlai really can turn into a beast, and not just when the moon is full. A dazed, sweet girl × a fierce werewolf Blurb for The Marquis's Household Women Become Commoners: The Prince of Ming's household backed the wrong side in the struggle between the princes and princesses, and now it's been confiscated! Marquis Ming took his own life, and his legitimate and illegitimate sons have all been exiled to the frontier. The empress ascends the throne and, in her mercy, strips the women of the household of their noble status, making them commoners. There are twelve wives, concubines, and daughters, each with her own beauty and charm. They've been raised without ever lifting a finger, unable to do a thing or distinguish grain from grass. They know only how to open their mouths when food is served and hold out their arms to be dressed, paint their brows, powder their faces, tint their lips, play the zither, recite poetry, and dab ink on paper. At most, they can thread a needle, split silk, or use an abacus, but they don't know how to wash clothes, clean vegetables, or pull up a radish, let alone grow vegetables, raise chickens, or work the bellows. Everything is a mess, everything is going wrong. They fix things one by one, and bring everything into order. With no man left to fight over and serve, the principal wife and concubines become friends who understand one another. Without differences in rank, the legitimate and illegitimate daughters become true sisters. From washing and ironing clothes for others to building the capital's leading clothing shop; from earning a single coin by writing letters for others to sitting for the imperial exams and entering government service; from sometimes having enough to eat and sometimes going hungry to running a little restaurant even the empress comes to visit. Dual heroines: Legitimate mother Lan Panxiao × her longtime secret admirer, the chief steward who came with her as part of her dowry (a much older virgin) Younger sister Ming Baojin × the feisty boy next door (childhood sweethearts, training him to be a virtuous husband) Some of the women have love interests, and some don't. Theme: Keep your eyes open and love someone worthy of it.