The Gentle Scholar in My Husband's Family

Pre-release: The farming story from the seme's perspective, Doctor Su's Layabout Husband. Please add it to your collection! Blurb: Overnight, Xie Jianjun transmigrates into the village idiot of the Xie family, hated by everyone in Fushui Village. He opens his eyes to a ramshackle hut with peeling walls, while two pitiful figures, one big and one small, huddle in a corner, clutching their clothes and trembling. His mind is a whirlwind of panic and confusion. He can't lift heavy things or even carry a load, and his pockets are so empty they rattle. The only thing he's got going for him is a decent brain. To establish himself in this era and support his husband and younger brother, Xie Jianjun has no choice but to pick up his books and return to the imperial examinations. Everyone in the village says that the Xie family's idiot, who can't even recognize a single character, is dreaming if he thinks he can pass the county-level examination. Later, Xie Jianjun rides through the streets in triumph, wearing a black gauze cap with two wings and a crimson robe, having passed the imperial examinations and risen to success. The villagers then say that now Xie Jianjun is a high-ranking official, he'll surely divorce his stammering husband, who isn't fit to be seen in public. Later, the noble and virtuous Lord Xie leads the townspeople in repairing riverbanks, building dams, growing high-yield crops, and establishing schools. By his side for years, through thick and thin, is his beloved husband, Mu Yunhu. * His parents married Yunhu off to the Xie family's idiot for three silver coins. He thought his life had no hope left. But his "husband" turned out to be a good man, gentle by nature and wonderful to him. He draped a coat over his shoulders while they kept vigil for the dead. He bought him candied hawthorns while they were selling things at a stall. On cold winter nights, when their bedding felt like ice, he even filled a hot-water bottle for him. Yunhu was overjoyed. His "husband" really was a wonderful person! Reader's guide, please read before starting: 1. A slow-paced, slice-of-life farming story!!! Rural life in the early chapters, imperial examinations in the middle, and local infrastructure and reform in the later chapters. The shou is timid at first, but with encouragement and help from the gong, he'll grow. He has his own character and career arcs; he isn't just a background character. 2. There are everyday child-rearing scenes. The kid isn't perfect, but isn't a brat either. If you don't like kids, this may not be for you. 3. Fictional setting with lots of personal interpretation. If something seems implausible, the author's notes may explain it. Please don't flame me. Also, there are no relentlessly obnoxious villains. Pre-release: A sweet farming story from the seme's perspective, Doctor Su's Layabout Husband. Launching in August. If you're interested, please add it to your collection~~ Blurb: One day, Wen Qiyuan transmigrates into a book as a destitute scholar in Yulin Village, in another world. After working himself to the bone and just getting through the college entrance exams, he looks at the piles of Four Books, Five Classics, philosophers' writings, and historical records on his desk, and his vision goes dark. "I don't want to work hard anymore. I want to lie flat." So he spends his days teaching in the village and writing storybooks. In his spare time, he cooks for his picky little husband, Su Bai, and ignores the villagers' meddling. His easygoing life as a layabout is quite pleasant. Wen Qiyuan is very satisfied with this. Su Bai has always looked down on his scholar husband, who claims to be studying for the examinations but is actually good for nothing. He's made up his mind to become a village doctor who treats the sick and saves lives, and to live with his husband in cold harmony, keeping out of each other's way. Who knew the man's brain would suddenly short-circuit, and he'd refuse to study ever again? But he starts treating Su Bai kindly every day, boiling chicken soup to warm him up in winter and making iced jelly to cool him down in summer... There's no such thing as kindness without a motive! Su Bai tightens his grip on the money pouch in his arms, afraid this "cunning and sly" man will trick him into going to town to gamble. Instead, his husband produces a heavy purse from behind his back and carefully offers it to him. "Bai Bai, this is the money I've earned writing stories lately. Doctor Su, please keep it safe and use it to help with household expenses." Su Bai: ? He's acting strange. Later, Wen Qiyuan has fattened up his once-thin, picky little husband until he's round and rosy. The scholar he taught by hand places first in all three imperial examinations, riding through the streets in a red robe to the envy of everyone. The villagers who once criticized him for being a scholar with no ambition: ? He really does have a talent for this! Only Wen Qiyuan lies lazily in his study, looking at a wall full of embroidered banners praising Su Bai's medical skill, and thinking of his little husband, who's been invited to someone's home to practice medicine. He lies there like a flat fish. The bookshop owner pounds on his door. "I'm begging you, please write more! They've surrounded my shop, and I'm too scared to go back!" A gust of wind blows across the storybooks on the table, revealing the words "By Mr. Layabout" on one title page. It's the hottest bestseller of the moment, worth a fortune and impossible to get your hands on. Wen Qiyuan: Who could have guessed that all I wanted at the start was to be a layabout! Reader's guide: 1. A layabout schoolteacher who occasionally gets it together so he can keep lying flat x a cool on the outside, warm on the inside, flirtatious village doctor. 2. The gong is the main perspective, and the couple dotes on each other. A sweet little story. There will be children later, with a few child-rearing scenes and some food. Pre-release: A silly, sweet farming story from the seme's perspective, The Lazy Man Everyone Hates Turns His Life Around. Blurb: After working two all-nighters in a row, Li Ji closes his eyes and opens them again. The good news is that he's still alive. The bad news is that he's transmigrated into a universally hated lazy man in Chuyang Village, in another world. The lazy man spends all day loafing around and doing nothing. He won't even right an oil bottle if it falls over, and when his clothes get dirty, he just turns them inside out and wears them again. The villagers avoid him, and gossip about him behind his back. Li Ji: What kind of disastrous start is this! To pay his land tax at the end of the year, this "useless lump" with practically no life skills has no choice but to learn to wash clothes, chop wood, and work the fields. * The villagers have recently noticed that the detestable lazy man has changed. He's started keeping himself neat and presentable. He's surprisingly diligent, and even speaks and acts with more sense. Old Wang, the village head, strokes his gray beard. "I knew it. Once a man settles down, he really does start to look different!" But Li Ji is at a loss when it comes to his husband, Wang Yu, who's said to be fiery-tempered and domineering. Unsure how to get along with him, Li Ji goes out to use the outhouse one night. Passing by, he hears Wang Yu crouching furtively under a tree, muttering, "Prosperity, democracy, civility, harmony, freedom, equality, justice, rule of law..." Li Ji: How are you? Wang Yu (shocked, blurting out instinctively): Fine, thank you. And you? Li Ji: ...Passive skill triggered. Wang Yu has a fight with his idiot boss, smacks his head on the ground, and wakes up in Chuyang Village. He diligently keeps up his local identity. Afraid the villagers will discover the truth, he decides to team up and play house with his "husband," another unfortunate soul stranded in a foreign world. Who knew Li Ji would be such a committed actor? In public, he treats Wang Yu wonderfully, serving him tea and water, massaging his shoulders, and even sewing him a tiger-head doll as his "baby." In private, he plays the role of his husband as if it were second nature. Lying on his back on the kang, Wang Yu is dazed, as if sailing across the sea: This life is actually... kind of exciting. Reader's guide: 1. A sweet slice-of-life farming story about everyday family matters. Both the gong and shou transmigrate, but neither gets a golden finger. 2. There will be children later. Theme: Study hard and don't fear hardship