Author's note: Screenshots taken on 2022-12-23.
When Ji Yunxi was on her deathbed, she felt nothing but relief.
She had been the legitimate daughter of the Grand Chancellor of Great Yan. Frail and delicate since childhood, she spent her days reading and embroidering, never stepping outside the inner courtyard. Her life had been dull, and she never expected that after opening her eyes again, she'd become a beautiful, pampered young intellectual sent to the countryside.
The original owner had tried to marry the male lead, a young intellectual from a prominent family, by staging a drowning. Instead, she was rescued by the brigade leader's youngest son, a good-for-nothing who never applied himself.
The original owner looked down on a farmer's son, but rumors forced them to marry. On their wedding night, an argument turned into a fight.
To Ji Yunxi, life in her new world was a little poor, but she had a healthy body and no need to be trapped in a grand household. That was pretty good.
As for her husband in name only, she'd heard that without registering the marriage, it didn't count.
But the husband she'd thought was a notorious brute wasn't so bad after all. He was hardworking, capable, gentle, and considerate. He taught her to read and write and helped her prepare for the college entrance exams. In this strange new world, he helped her find her own worth and revive a lost embroidery tradition.
Ji Yunxi thought that spending her life with someone like him might be rather nice.
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Gu Huaian was an orphan who had built a business empire from scratch, but overwork had given him cancer.
Perhaps because he donated all his wealth before he died, when he closed his eyes and opened them again, he had transmigrated into Gu Huaian, a farmer's son in the 1970s.
The original owner was the youngest son of the Gu family in Hongqi Brigade. He spent his days loafing around and never applying himself, earning a terrible reputation in the brigade. He had even taken his wife by improper means.
When Gu Huaian arrived, it was their wedding night. The drunken original owner and the wife he'd forced into marriage were arguing. One hit his head on the doorframe and died, while the other struck the bedpost and fell unconscious.
Gu Huaian sighed. No matter how hard life got, being alive was a blessing.
But his wife seemed a little different from what he remembered. The sharp-tongued young intellectual he'd thought had nothing going for her but a pretty face had become gentle, virtuous, dignified, and elegant. She'd also gained an embroidery skill.
Gu Huaian had planned to set her free, but now he was reluctant to let her go.
To give his wife a comfortable life, he went from providing for the family to making a fortune, and built another business empire!
Reading guide:
1. Alternate-history setting, with plenty of original worldbuilding.
2. Both transmigrate. The heroine transmigrates from ancient times to the modern era.
3. Female-oriented romance, both leads are virgins, one-on-one pairing.
4. Revised on 2023-01-10.
Updated on 2023-03-30.
Theme: Create a happy life with your own two hands.
