The Little Farm Machinery Lady

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This is my first novel to pass review, and my writing is still a little rough, so read with care. Thank you for your support!

[Clear-Headed Little Sunshine vs. Downcast Great General] Half farming, mutually devoted, happy ending

After Jing Yan, an agricultural machinery technician, was crushed to death by a tractor, she transmigrated into the daughter of a poor military household in a frontier garrison.

The able-bodied men were stationed at the border. Her awful relatives were lazy gluttons, while the company commander was corrupt and tyrannical, bullying men and women alike. Just paying the annual grain tax was enough to work her whole family to death, and they still wouldn't be able to pay it in full.

Faced with such a desperate situation, Jing Yan rolled up her sleeves.

She had an agricultural machinery warehouse that came with her transmigration. Let them treat her like a pushover? Not a chance!

Not enough hands to bring in the rice? Start up the combine harvester and get it done in no time. √

Irrigating the fields is difficult? Improve the irrigation channels and build modern, high-standard farmland. √

Crop protection is inefficient? Use a remote-controlled drone to spray the whole field without even leaving home. √

With modern agricultural machinery skills, I'll be the one to lead the way to wealth through farming!

One day, Jing Yan found a badly wounded deserter while reclaiming wasteland.

He was covered in blood and looked utterly miserable, refusing to let anyone near him. Anyone who saw him found him thoroughly unpleasant.

But in Jing Yan's eyes, he was muscular, homeless, and practically free labor sent from heaven!

Bring him home. She had to bring him home!

Under her careful care, the "gloomy god" stopped being gloomy. Not only did he visibly become more pleasant and amiable, but his eyes also held an almost imperceptible eagerness whenever he looked at Jing Yan.

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As time went on, Jing Yan realized that the deserter was quiet, capable, and easy to please. She couldn't find a more agreeable hired hand within a hundred li.

Then one day, soldiers came to her home and tried to take him away without a word.

Jing Yan was furious. She steeled herself and stepped in front of Qi Duxing to protect him. "Anyone who tries to force him into the army today will have to get through me!"

To her surprise, the soldiers looked troubled. "General... shouldn't you be coming back, too?"

Jing Yan: "???"

But the man took her hand, his star-bright eyes full of anticipation. "You... don't want to let me go?"

So I thought of you as a hired hand, but you've been trying to spirit me away this whole time?

New novel blurb below

[Reading Guide]

1. One couple, both sexually inexperienced, happy ending. The dynasty and place names are fictional, so don't read too much into them.

2. The male lead officially appears in Chapter 7.

3. The professional knowledge comes from the internet, so don't scrutinize it too closely.

★ Domineering pursuit | Powerful man lowers his head | Both leads sexually inexperienced

★ Honest, resilient little Zen nun 🌿 x gloomy, unhinged crown prince's eldest grandson 🐶

[Synopsis]

As Crown Prince, Li Ji never imagined that one day, trapped with nowhere to turn, he would reach out for help from the very Zen nun he had always looked down on most.

This little Zen nun had lived in the mountains for years and was utterly innocent.

A few words of pleading were enough to make her take pity on him and bring him back to her hideout.

A little flirtation was all it took to coax her into thinking of him as a confidant and tending to him with care.

When he casually mentioned that he couldn't sleep at night, Lai Niang even went to the trouble of obtaining the best incense room in the temple for him. Though the incense was crude, he pretended to praise her for being "so thoughtful."

Seeing the woman blush as he had expected, Li Ji sneered inwardly.

Lai Niang had no idea this was just one insignificant trick in Li Ji's years of scheming.

He kept up his act flawlessly, all so he could recover as quickly as possible while hiding from his pursuers, then leave without looking back.

But this foolish woman had fallen for him and asked him to take her away, so they could be together forever.

Li Ji still answered her gently. But when the agreed-upon day arrived, he left her alone to wait through the cold night.

He thought he would soon forget this place and the insignificant Zen nun.

But after returning to the palace, surrounded by splendor and the scent of dragon's-breath incense, he tossed and turned night after night. Awake or dreaming, all he could think of was that crude fragrance he had once despised so much.

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Xin Lai Niang had known since childhood that "lai" meant a wild weed, just like her life, worthless as grass.

But even on that cold night, when the man she loved abandoned her, her family and friends pointed fingers at her, and she was inexplicably hunted, captured, and tortured, not one of those things could crush her will to live.

Life brings more than enough hardship. She would put the past behind her and look ahead.

To escape the prison, Lai Niang had no choice but to ask a highly respected Zen master to take her as his disciple. The price was that she would have to stay by his side for the rest of her life, cut off all ties to the mortal world, and never return to secular life.

She agreed without hesitation, resolutely bowing in gratitude.

But on the day she received the vows, as she swore her oath before the patriarch, a nobleman dressed in resplendent yellow robes seized her from behind and pulled her into his arms.

His cold fingertips lifted her chin slightly. She looked up in shock.

Months had passed since they last met, but the man still wore the same smile. In his hand, however, was a blood-soaked head: the very Zen master who had just bestowed the vows on her at the altar.

"We agreed to be together forever. How could you cut yourself off from the mortal world without asking me?"

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Later, throughout the many years Li Ji used every means at his disposal to keep Lai Niang by his side, he was too proud to admit, even when he had been reduced to dust:

His fate, like that of an abandoned dog she would leave behind time and time again, had already been sealed on that cold night.

[Reading Notes]

1. An old-school, melodramatic romance packed with domineering pursuit, her escape and his chase, a man picked up and brought home, faked death, and a groveling pursuit. Don't click if that's not your thing.

2. The male lead is a gloomy, unhinged mad dog at first, then a clingy, aggressive dog later. Either way, he's still a piece of trash. Don't click if that's not your thing.

3. The setting and religion are fictional. The Zen nuns, Zen masters, and Zen teachings are all made up by me. The worldbuilding is entirely fictional, so no need to fact-check it.

4. The master who is killed in the blurb is not an innocent victim who dies unjustly.

Theme: Hard work is rewarded by heaven.