I Traveled to Ancient Times with My Ex-Boyfriend to Farm

[My next book will be A Home-Cooked Little Chef. Please add it to your favorites!] On the day he breaks up with his boyfriend, Xu Qinghe transmigrates to an ancient village that never existed in history. When he arrives, his original body's wedding is underway, and the person he's marrying looks awfully familiar: it's his freshly dumped ex-boyfriend. Xu Qinghe: We have to get a divorce. Lu Wanting: No. To avoid giving himself away, Xu Qinghe has no choice but to grit his teeth and make a life with his ex. In spring, he carries a bamboo basket to pick shepherd's purse and steams a basket of jade-green vegetable buns. In summer, he drinks well water-chilled sour plum soup with peeled, spicy crawfish. At harvest time in autumn, he eats chestnut-braised chicken, its aroma drifting across the whole village. In the depths of winter, he roasts sweet potatoes by the stove and listens to the faint sound of snow falling outside. Xu Qinghe settles into a leisurely life and, along the way, opens the busiest snack shop in town. Watching the crowds of customers, then looking at his ex working busily by the stove, Xu Qinghe thinks: Maybe making a life together isn't so bad? One day, as he looks at Lu Wanting's handsome profile, lit by the fire, his heart stirs. "How about we get back together?" Lu Wanting looks up at him, his gaze deep. "Get back together?" "But we've been married for ages." A slightly spoiled young master bottom x a quiet, reserved, fatherly top Reader's guide: 1. A day-to-day story full of food and drink. The protagonist has an overpowered golden finger, so please proceed with caution if that's not your thing. 2. The dynasty is fictional, as is everything else. 3. Updates follow the ranking list before VIP status; after that, daily updates plus occasional bonus chapters. New chapters go up at 18:00 every day. A Home-Cooked Little Chef After transmigrating, Lin Shuangjiang becomes a seven-year-old kitchen fire-tender in the home of an official family in the Song Dynasty. As a hereditary servant, his everyday meals consist of sour-gruel porridge, bean rice, fermented fish, salted vegetables, and rice crust. That is, porridge made with fermented vegetable water; rice cooked with hard beans and coarse rice; salted fish eaten raw; bitter, salty greens and radishes; and the rice crust left stuck to the bottom of the pot after the head chef cooks rice. Everyone else: What a generous spread! Lin Shuangjiang: ...Could you stop abusing children? For the sake of his own stomach, Lin Shuangjiang has no choice but to fend for himself. Soon, delicious aromas begin drifting from the kitchen: Piping-hot soup dumplings, melt-in-your-mouth Dongpo pork, Longjing shrimp, gleaming like jade, and bacon and bamboo shoot soup so tasty it makes your eyebrows fall off, plus sweet fermented rice balls and lotus root stuffed with sticky rice, drizzled with honey... Before he knows it, Lin Shuangjiang becomes the youngest head chef the marquis's household has ever had, and even finds himself a husband along the way. * Li Xiuran is the notoriously difficult second young master of the Li family. He was spoiled and fearless from childhood, until he met Lin Shuangjiang at the age of nine. The new kitchen boy was fair and soft, with big, grape-like eyes, and was even prettier than the painted children in storybooks. The first time they met, Li Xiuran couldn't resist teasing him. "You look clumsy." The seven-year-old kitchen boy didn't say a word, but quietly clenched his little fists. Li Xiuran thought: Tsk, like a glutinous rice ball that jumps at the slightest poke. One night, he caught Lin Shuangjiang sneaking a bun. The other boy, startled, held one out to him. "Second Young Master, I bought the ingredients with my monthly allowance and made this myself. I'll share one with you, if you promise not to tell." Almost without thinking, Li Xiuran took it and bit down. ...It's delicious! From then on, Li Xiuran became Lin Shuangjiang's loyal little shadow. He took him to taste every delicacy under the sun, and Lin Shuangjiang showed him the vastness of the world. For more than a decade, they grew up together, always by each other's side. Later, everyone in Bianjing knew that the proud, unruly young master of the Li family had one untouchable weakness: Lin Shuangjiang. Hurt him, and Li Xiuran would fly into a rage. He protected him as if he were a treasure. Theme: Keep the sun in your heart and let the power of life bloom in the ordinary.