Back to the Famine Years to Raise My Husband

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Blurb:

Pei Xuanzhao first met He Yizhi on the road as they fled famine.

Pei Xuanzhao was ten then, and He Yizhi was four.

The little boy was skin and bones, and didn't even have a name. Pei Xuanzhao gave him one and kept him by his side every day.

He kept him there for sixteen years. Even when he passed the imperial examinations and got married, the only one at his side was He Yizhi.

Everyone in the capital knew that Lord Pei Xuanzhao loved his husband dearly. But fate was unkind to the pair: his young husband fell ill with madness.

After his husband died, Lord Pei was consumed by grief. Before long, he too passed away, going below to find the beloved husband he had kept by his side since childhood.

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In the tenth year of the Chongli era, a great drought struck south of Xunyang Prefecture. That year, the people suffered terribly, and the roads were strewn with the dead.

Desperate to survive, the people had no choice but to leave their homes and embark on a journey to escape the famine.

Four-year-old He was one of them. His parents abandoned him, but he met Brother Pei, who protected him as if his life depended on it. Today, though, Brother Pei is acting strangely. He's holding him so tightly and saying things He can't understand.

"Thank goodness, Yizhi, you're still alive! And your arm is still here!"

He is both angry and hurt. "You have the wrong person, Brother. I'm He, not one Yizhi or two Yizhi."

Ten-year-old Pei Xuanzhao hugs him and cries tears of joy. "Yizhi is the name I gave you, Brother's promise. I swear that in this life, I won't let you suffer the slightest grievance!"

He doesn't understand. He covers his empty stomach and says weakly, "Brother, He is so hungry."

"I'll find a way to earn money right away!"

With his memories of his past life, Pei Xuanzhao deals with the scoundrel who caused Yizhi to lose an arm in his previous life, then starts selling the capital's most popular pastries from that life.

He also unexpectedly discovers sweet potatoes, which won't reach the Sheng Kingdom for another eight years.

By growing sweet potatoes and making vermicelli, he not only saves the Sheng Kingdom from the war it suffered in his previous life, but also makes life better and better for himself and Yizhi.

[Reading Guide]

1. A story about raising a child, with a relatively long childhood section.

2. The top is reborn, and both leads are natives of this world. The story has both leads' points of view.

3. Domestic life and warm everyday moments, with a little court politics later on. He eventually resigns and returns to the countryside.

Upcoming historical romance, Forestside Diner

Yu Miao has been intellectually disabled since birth and has suffered plenty of mistreatment in the village.

After his beloved fathers pass away one after another,

his relatives try to take the family property and drive him into a dead end.

When the little fool dies, nobody comes to claim his body.

Only a tiny beggar digs a grave and buries him,

then poisons his enemies with rat poison before finally freezing to death in front of his grave.

Perhaps because his previous life was so miserable, Heaven takes pity on him.

Not only does it let Yu Miao live again, it also cures his condition.

A memory that doesn't belong to this world appears in his mind:

In that memory, he and his little father live in the twenty-first century.

The two of them run a small diner and lead a peaceful life,

until a car accident destroys everything.

Awakening with memories of both lives, Yu Miao wants only to do everything he can

to hold on tightly to what he has now:

to protect his little father, and the little beggar who avenged him in his previous life.

The little fool is no longer a fool. With his left hand, he takes on the awful relatives; with his right, he earns money.

As for how he'll make a living,

of course he'll go into the food business, the field he knows best from his memories.

At some point, a little diner quietly opens by the mountain road.

Pumpkin and wild mushroom stew, snow pear and Chinese yam soup, spicy salt-and-pepper pig trotters...

All kinds of unusual dishes smell so good that everyone's mouth waters.

Years later, the little diner is still the same little diner,

except now there's a chubby little white dumpling,

nestled in his father's arms, devouring a pig's trotter with grease all over his mouth.

"Little Father, carry me~" Seeing him, the little white dumpling reaches out to be picked up.

Yu Miao gently pinches the child's soft, smooth cheek,

then turns and gives the tall, handsome man beside him a quick kiss,

smiling as he says, "Let your dad carry you. Little Father will go make you something delicious."

Core message: Ordinary people are working hard to live, too.