My Wife Loves Farming

Coming Next: Reborn and Married to My Ex-Husband's Nemesis. Welcome to add it to your reading list!

Blurb:

Ever since Chen Yanning was little, her mother had warned her, "You're a concubine's daughter. You have no standing in this family. What if the principal wife casually marries you off to some farmer?"

So Chen Yanning started learning how to farm from her mother at a very young age.

Later, her mother decided that wasn't enough. What if she married a butcher?

So Chen Yanning picked up another skill.

Then her mother worried again. What if she married a scholar? If she only knew manual labor, she wouldn't have anything in common with him. So Chen Yanning began learning to read and write, too.

After more than a decade, Chen Yanning had become skilled in all sorts of things.

Then an imperial decree arranged her marriage to Xie Qianyan, the second son of Prince Qi, as his principal wife.

It was said that Xie Qianyan had been disfigured in a great fire and rejected by the woman he loved. After that, he developed a strange illness and became volatile, bloodthirsty, and cruel, sometimes even going on murderous rampages...

Chen Yanning was close to tears. Her mother told her she had to find a way to get him to divorce her.

But she wasn't divorced. Instead, the second young master was framed and stripped of his title, becoming a commoner. Everyone mocked Chen Yanning for her bad luck and assumed she would abandon her husband.

Chen Yanning simply slapped her thigh and told him, "We've got hands and feet. Why should we go hungry? You supported me before, so now I'll support you."

By the time the second young master was cleared of the charges, she had become a major fruit grower and pig farmer. Her fruit was juicy and delicious, and her pork was tender without being greasy. It couldn't meet demand.

The second young master was made a prince and returned to the capital with his wife and children. Everyone speculated that now that he had risen to power, he would surely abandon his long-suffering wife.

Then they saw the newly titled prince feeding his wife dessert in public, his heart and soul devoted to her.

Chen Yanning still remembered how, one year in the countryside, she had pointed to the fruit trees halfway up a mountain and said to him, "I'll lease this whole mountainside for you."

P.S. One man, one woman, both chaste, sweet romance.

The setting is fictional, with plenty of original worldbuilding. For example, you can find every kind of modern fruit and crop here.

Don't overthink it. It's just an ordinary little sweet romance.

My writing isn't great. If you drop the novel, you don't need to tell me. There is no transmigration or rebirth, and the heroine doesn't have modern values.

Coming Soon: Reborn and Married to My Ex-Husband's Nemesis

Ye Shanyan is the legitimate granddaughter of the Great General Who Protects the Meng Kingdom. The most cherished child in her family, she trained in martial arts with her grandfather from an early age. By sixteen, she was already leading troops into battle and fighting the enemy with unmatched bravery. She also became the woman everyone in the capital was afraid to marry.

She's also a total beauty lover. At first sight, she fell for the newly appointed top scholar, Gu Baiyang, and loudly declared that she would marry him.

Then an imperial decree came down, and Ye Shanyan was betrothed to Zhao Boning, the young Crown Prince's Tutor.

Everyone in the capital knew Zhao Boning and Gu Baiyang were political rivals who clashed at every turn. They thought Zhao Boning was marrying Ye Shanyan just to spite Gu Baiyang.

Ye Shanyan thought so, too. After marrying into the Zhao family, she refused to be pleasant to Zhao Boning. She did everything she wasn't supposed to do. Every day, she either went horseback riding and archery practice or blew up all the goldfish in the Zhao family's ornamental pond. She even arranged marriages for several of Zhao Boning's beautiful concubines.

Over time, Ye Shanyan became known as a shrew. She waited for Zhao Boning to get fed up and divorce her, but it never happened.

Zhao Boning never hit back or talked back. Once, when she was sick and throwing a tantrum, she bit him. He only soothed her gently and took meticulous care of her. Ye Shanyan began to think he wasn't any less handsome than Gu Baiyang.

When Zhao Boning first arrived in the capital to make his way in the world, he was utterly destitute, earning his living through calligraphy and paintings. Only one girl on horseback had ever stopped to buy all his work with a silver ingot, telling him he was talented and would surely make something of himself.

Later, Zhao Boning earned an official post and rose to prominence, but he was too late. He watched the girl marry another man with his own eyes.

He knew she was unhappy. After marrying into her husband's family, she suffered humiliation at every turn. When he happened to see her, the once carefree girl had no spark left in her eyes.

He schemed and calculated, determined to take her for himself, but one miscalculation brought Ye Shanyan into it, too.

The moment he saw her being executed, Zhao Boning went mad...

When he woke again, he had returned to the time before Ye Shanyan's marriage. He didn't care that she was already in love with Gu Baiyang. He still forced her to marry him. Whether she was unwilling or he had to take her by force, this time he would keep her by his side.

When Ye Shanyan had the household in "chaos," even the servant couldn't stand it and advised him, "Master, a melon forcibly twisted from the vine won't be sweet."

Theme: Life is hard, so bring on more sweetness.