Raising a Husband on the Road to Refuge

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Gu Min, a sickly man from the twenty-first century, died. The good news was that he was reborn as a wealthy young master in ancient times.

The bad news was that he was still sickly.

Worse, he had landed in an era of famine and war. His entire family had been robbed blind by refugees, and they were now struggling to flee.

The original owner of his body was frail and domineering, with a heart condition that left him gasping after a few steps. He was also full of outrageous schemes. Not only had he sold off the ugly male wife his family had married him to for good luck, the one who devotedly cared for him, but he had also shamelessly fawned over his so-called beloved, only to be played for a fool by that man and his half-brother.

In the end, they tricked him out of every last bit of travel money, then abandoned him with a crowd of elderly people, women, and children, leaving them on the brink of ruin.

Gu Min woke up and, despite his feeble state, tried to win back his beloved husband. But he collapsed halfway there and passed out, only for his husband to carry him away...

Gu Min was utterly bewildered. Fortunately, his foodie sign-in System had come with him. A casual sign-in made rice and wild vegetables spring up in the wasteland, fruit and tender shoots grow on dead trees, and even a plump fish and shrimp leap out of a dried-up ditch.

Another sign-in, and out popped glistening roast chicken legs, sweet and soft little cakes, and delicious Yangchun noodles?

Gu Min was determined to raise his scrawny, ugly husband into a strong, dark-skinned man. At first, he only wanted to make it up to this pitiful man, who was humble and timid, with a heart full of love for him.

Then, quite by accident, he discovered that his poor little husband was not only not ugly, but astonishingly strong. One punch sent a bully flying, and three kicks launched another into the sky. Dressed in black and ready for action, he could take down an entire bandit stronghold single-handedly.

Gu Min, who had been preparing to divorce him, "..."

"Husband, don't be afraid. They won't bully you anymore."

Ding! The Host's heart rate has reached 180. The public display of affection feature has been activated!

From then on, whenever Gu Min and his husband needed clothes, they searched for materials such as ramie and vines to make them. Add a little public display of affection value, and the System would drop a ready-made outfit.

With nowhere to rest, they could find building materials and build whatever they liked: a cave dwelling, a treehouse, or a bamboo hut. As long as they filled up their public display of affection value and achieved their goal of making others jealous or leaving them green with envy, carriages, boats, and mansions were all within reach!

Gu Min had one thing to say: Did a real married couple have to deliberately put on a show of affection? Their spontaneous displays of love sent the affection value through the roof every day.

Everyone said the sickly young master wouldn't live three days. Yet he was bouncing around everywhere. While everyone else suffered on the road, he took his whole family sightseeing, eating and drinking, admiring the scenery, and building things wherever they went.

Everyone said an ugly husband would never be loved by a man, had no pregnancy mark, would never have children, and would bring misfortune to anyone who married him. Yet the couple were devoted to each other, and the ugly husband had two children in three years. Every one of them was chubby, adorable, clever, and a clingy little bundle of love for their fathers.

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Top, exclusive relationship, strong leads, pregnancy and childbirth, construction, feel-good story

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[Refined, scholarly, pure-hearted sickly beauty top x Dark-skinned, vigorous, mature husband bottom] The bottom is five years older than the top. He is highly skilled in martial arts and powerful without realizing it. The top is a frail beauty who won't recover anytime soon, so he gets carried around a lot. But he's especially capable in bed. They dote on each other.

The bottom isn't truly dark-skinned. He's just darker than the top, whose skin is so fair it seems translucent. He'll get fairer with time~

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Zuo Li transmigrated into a power-fantasy novel with an overpowered golden finger. The protagonist bottom had the constitution of a lucky koi, while the protagonist top came from the apocalypse and possessed a spatial ability. It was a story where the characters leveled up and grew stronger.

And Zuo Li was the useless pretty-boy son-in-law in the foil role, too weak to truss a chicken.

Not only did he despise his husband for being disfigured and a lame butcher, he also brought his dissolute family along to bleed him dry. Then he climbed the social ladder, divorced his husband to marry someone else, kicked him aside, and even tried to kill him, only to be killed in a desperate counterattack.

Zuo Li: Good riddance!

But now he had transmigrated into that very man, and from the start, he had to deal with his husband falling down a mountain, injuring his leg, and coming down with a high fever, while their household had only three copper coins left.

Fortunately, he was a golden finger himself.

That's right, Zuo Li was a humanoid super-learning System from Planet 8831 in the future. He could bind himself to any target, issue tasks, and earn rewards.

Soon, the protagonist top and bottom both heard a cold, mechanical, emotionless voice in their minds:

"Exchange a box of fever medicine for a set of light-footed movement techniques. Would you like to exchange?"

"Exchange a wild ginseng root for a cooking skill. Would you like to exchange?"

The protagonist top and bottom: There are benefits like this? My golden finger is way too overpowered!

Later, even the current dynasty's prime minister, framed and facing confiscation of his property and exile, received help from System Jun.

"Spend one thousand taels of silver to obtain several wilderness survival skills. Would you like to exchange?"

"Exchange, exchange! Hurry up and exchange! Damn it, the old man can finally save his own neck."

The Minister of the Court of Judicial Review was investigating a major series of murders. If he couldn't identify the real culprit within three days, he'd be dismissed and punished.

Then a voice suddenly rang in his mind: "Exchange a treasured calligraphy and painting for the skill of solving mysterious cases. Would you like to exchange?"

The Minister of the Court of Judicial Review: What the hell? Get lost and stop interfering with my work!

On the third day, he gritted his teeth and answered the voice. In less than half an hour, he felt as if the gods were helping him. Inspiration struck, and he connected all the clues, painstakingly untangled the case, identified the culprit, and rushed to catch him in the act, saving several young masters and young ladies from prominent families.

"Great System, are you still there? Please save me, sob!"

Later, the top scholar whose marriage was in trouble, the tyrant who couldn't control his bloodlust, the empress dowager who refused to die... all heard the voice in their minds.

That day, every important figure in the An Kingdom, great or small, made their way to Mount Jingyuan outside the capital, bowing every three steps as they earnestly sought to invite a renowned scholar out of seclusion.

Zuo Li: I just want to stay with my husband and farm.

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Bottom's perspective:

Luo Yuan, born in the poor mountains, realized from a young age that he was cold and uncaring. The only thing that brought him a little joy was making money through business.

To honor his parents' last wishes, he took in a son-in-law, never expecting it to bring him such enormous trouble.

Just as he was trying every possible way to drive the parasite out, the parasite suddenly became a different person one day.

He stopped ordering Luo Yuan around and taking everything he could get. He even scared off all of Luo Yuan's awful relatives and severed ties with them for good. He became gentle and considerate, looking after Luo Yuan's daily needs, buying him all kinds of brightly colored, eye-catching clothes, and handing over every bit of money he earned.

Just as their old grudges were finally settled, Luo Yuan was planning to divorce him and devote himself to making money.

Then a voice suddenly appeared in his mind:

"Ding! I'm the Married Couple Affection System. Talk with your neglected, pitiful little husband for a while, and you can get one thousand taels of silver."

"Give him a kiss, and you can get a famous painting worth ten thousand gold."

Luo Yuan: ...I'm in!

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[An all-powerful learning System top who has returned to the beginner village x A straightforward, beautiful, strong, miserable, love-shunning, money-loving bottom]

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1. The top is a super humanoid System with his own feelings and emotions, essentially an artificial human.

2. Nothing happened between the original owner and the bottom. The top and bottom are each other's one and only, strong leads, devoted to each other, two-er, pregnancy and childbirth.

3. Some of the targets bound to the top will become friends and benefactors to the couple, while others will be enemies and villains. Their stories will all connect to the couple. The golden finger doesn't take up much of the story and isn't too overpowered.

4. Easygoing daily life, mainly farming and business, building wealth, a slow and steady romance, with the occasional bit of gossip.

Core message: Overcome hardship and face challenges head-on