My Homegrown Little Husband

After retiring from the army, General Xu was reborn as a village tanner.

And not just any tanner: he was huge, fierce-looking, a local menace, and a wife-beater who had been killed by his own wife!

General Xu looked at his dilapidated home and his terrified young husband, lost in thought.

How many steps did it take to go from penniless to wealthy? Step one: sell medicinal herbs. What? He got ripped off? No problem. He could easily turn trash into treasure and ruin the dishonest merchant's business in the process!

Step two: pickled taro stems. Good grief, who knew the pickled-vegetable market was so big? If nobody else was selling them, then they were all his for the taking!

Step three: pickled vegetables in sauce. So what if it was a small business? Low margins and high volume, steady profits over time, heaps of money, and people from every village nearby clamoring for jobs!

His father-in-law and mother-in-law come looking for trouble? Throw them out. His green-tea younger brother-in-law transmigrates and tries to draw attention to himself? Throw him out. His young husband's dim-witted, saintly first love comes to stir up trouble? Throw him out. Huh? What is this domineering, unhinged marquis? Anyone who comes looking for trouble gets thrown out!

General Xu guards his little courtyard with its gray tiles and brick walls like an impregnable fortress!

As time went by, Xu Guiyuan suddenly realized that his timid young husband had grown up and become... a clingy, crying yandere?

Xu Guiyuan blushed. "Thank you. I'm enjoying this."

Liu Guan had never known a day of happiness in his life. His parents had bossed him around since childhood. His scholar older brother was only gentle with him to get close to his fourth younger brother. His fourth younger brother schemed to marry him off to a tanner, then ruined his reputation. The tanner married him only because his face resembled the fourth younger brother's, and from then on beat and abused him...

After a life of misery, absurdity, and injuries all over his body, Liu Guan stumbled about and raised a lampstand, ending the tanner's violent life.

But the tanner came back from the dead!

Liu Guan waited in terror for his slaps, belt, whip, and every other torture device. But the other man only helped him up gently. "I was too rough with you before. From now on, I'll mend my ways for good."

From then on, there was rice at every meal and meat every day, silk and satin, a spacious home, someone to fan him when he was hot and add clothes when he was cold, and someone to protect him when he was bullied! Liu Guan felt as though he were dreaming.

He looked at the tall, muscular tanner who indulged his every whim, and only one worry remained in his heart: In the village, oxen and sheep only become docile after they're castrated. The tanner's sudden change of heart... could it be that...

Then the red-faced tanner pinned him to the bed. "I haven't shown you what a real man can do, and now you think I'm harmless!"

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The Pallas's Cat's Beast-World Farming Livestream

Yan Sun transmigrates into the beast world with a livestream, becoming a fluffy, round, adolescent Pallas's cat who can only step on his own tail. But before he can learn to transform into a human, he's sent off as a sacrificial beast on a log raft.

Good news: He finally transforms and makes it to shore.

Bad news: The shore is on a deserted island.

The news could be good or bad: He fishes another animal out of the sea... a corsac fox.

And so begins a fluffy survival livestream on a deserted island, with the pair starting from scratch and climbing the technology tree.

This is a strange continent with two suns in the sky and three seasons a year: rainy season, snowy season, and dry season, each demanding a different way of life.

Find fresh water, shape stone knives, claim land, chop trees, build shelter, forage along the coast, hunt, pick wild fruit, store water, make pottery, grow crops, raise livestock, smelt iron, forge weapons, build boats, trade...

When they need more hands, the priests bring them sacrificial beasts every so often.

Lu? Pallas's Cat? Binxun and Xing? Corsac Fox? Qiw finally transform a deadly deserted island into a powerful tribe that all beastfolk admire and fear.

Reader's guide:

1. [A hot-tempered shou who's adorable to everyone because he's a Pallas's cat × a cool gong whom everyone calls devious for looking at the camera one time too many because he's a corsac fox]

2. A plot-driven farming story, a beast-world livestream version of Robinson Crusoe, but not a two-person show. Many companions will help the gong and shou advance the technology tree.

3. The point of the livestream is to pool ideas and provide skills, but the suggestions aren't always correct, so the protagonist has to think for himself. The livestream is more like a different perspective.

4. The gong has the standard handsome Western male-model look and an eight-pack. He's not ugly, not ugly!

Theme: Struggle against fate