Doctor Su's Lazybones Husband

Work is sending me away for training, so I won't be able to write. I'll start posting in mid-to-late September instead.

Blurb

Wen Qiyuan transmigrates into a book and wakes up as an impoverished scholar in Yulin Village, in another world.

After working himself to the bone through the college entrance exams, he finds himself facing a desk piled high with the Four Books and Five Classics, the works of the philosophers, and the Records of the Grand Historian. His vision goes black.

“I don't want to work hard anymore. I want to lie flat.”

So he stays home in the village, teaching classes and writing stories. In his free time, he cooks for his picky little husband, Su Bai, and turns a deaf ear to the villagers' gossip. His laid-back life as a happy little salted fish is quite pleasant.

Wen Qiyuan is very satisfied with this.

Su Bai has always looked down on his scholar husband, who spends all day claiming he is studying to pass the exams and earn an official title, when in fact he is good for nothing. He has decided to become a village doctor, treating the sick and healing the injured, and to keep his husband at arm's length, with neither of them interfering in the other's affairs.

Who could have guessed that something had gone wrong in the man's head? Though he absolutely refused to study any longer, he started treating Su Bai kindly every day. In winter, he simmered chicken soup to warm him up and keep out the cold; in summer, he made chilled grass jelly to cool him down...

Nobody does a favor for nothing!

Su Bai couldn't help tightening his grip on the money pouch in his arms, afraid this “cunning, deceitful” man would trick him into going to town to gamble.

Unexpectedly, his husband produced a heavy purse from behind his back and carefully placed it before him.

“Bai Bai, this is the money I earned recently from writing stories. Please keep it safe, Doctor Su, and use it to help with household expenses.”

Su Bai: ? Something was off about him.

By the time the once skinny, picky little husband had been lovingly fed by Wen Qiyuan until he was plump and rosy, the scholar Wen had coached step by step had come first in all three imperial examinations. Dressed in red, he rode through the streets, making everyone envious.

The villagers who had once criticized him, saying he had earned the title of scholar but lacked ambition: ? He really does have some skills!

Only Wen Qiyuan remained sprawled lazily in his study, gazing at the wall of banners praising his miraculous healing skills and thinking fondly of his little husband, who had been invited to treat patients at someone's home. He lay there like a salted fish.

The bookstore owner pounded on his door. “I'm begging you, hurry up and write! They've surrounded my shop. I don't even dare go back!”

A gust of wind lifted the cover of the storybook on the table, revealing the words “Written by Mr. Salted Fish.” It was the hottest bestseller of the moment, selling for a fortune, with every word in high demand.

Wen Qiyuan: Who could have guessed that all I wanted at the start was to be a salted fish!

Reader's Guide:

The main couple dote on each other in this sweet little story. There will be children later on, a little parenting, and some food.

Theme: No matter what, always embrace life with enthusiasm