The Scholar's Cool and Handsome Husband

Devoted, sunny scholar gong x reserved, stoic hunter shou

Lin Fengyang had been a well-behaved child ever since he was little. At thirteen, he obediently followed his parents' arrangements, going to school and coming home, studying and memorizing his lessons, all to pass the imperial examinations and become a high-ranking official. With no playmates and no mischief, his life was unbearably dull.

That was until one day, when a handsome young man suddenly arrived in the village.

The moment Lin Fengyang laid eyes on him, he thought the handsome young man was just like the cool, refined fairy in the storybooks his classmates read, and that coming to their village was practically like descending to the mortal world to endure a trial.

So, at a tender age, Lin Fengyang found his first goal in life:

Help the handsome young man endure his trial.

After that, every morning before sunrise, the villagers of Taohua Village would see the little boy everyone had pinned their hopes on quietly slip out of his house, then dash toward the place everyone in the village considered unlucky.

What did he go there to do?

Pull weeds, plant beans, and feed rabbits.

In other words, he was throwing himself at the man's doorstep.

The villagers: Outrageous! You're the whole village's future hope! How can you throw yourself at someone's doorstep? And a man who's unlucky and seven years older than you, at that! Besides, he's a strong hunter, not a handsome young man!

Lin Fengyang: Not listening, not listening. Off to help the handsome young man plant his fields and endure his trial~

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Shen Wenqing had neither father nor mother. His master found him as an infant, and when he grew up, he learned to hunt from him. But one day, while they were out hunting, his master missed a step and fell off a cliff, leaving Shen Wenqing alone once again.

With no hopes left to pin on anyone, he wandered from place to place until he stopped for a while in Taohua Village.

The day he arrived, rumors and gossip somehow came along with him into the village.

The villagers all said he was cursed, that his hard fate had killed his family and then his master. They kept their distance from him.

He didn't care. He wasn't going to stay there long anyway.

Until one day, a young boy knocked on his door.

The boy had delicate features, and his cheeks glowed pink like the clouds at sunset. Though he was drenched in sweat and his arms were trembling, he still struggled to hold steady the bundle of firewood, taller than himself. He smiled at Shen Wenqing, shyly but brightly.

"Brother Shen, I'm here to help!"

For the first time in twenty years of wandering, Shen Wenqing finally put down roots in one place.

For the sake of a boy who smiled at him and treated him with genuine kindness.

Reader's Guide: 1. Younger gong. Lin Fengyang is the gong, and Shen Wenqing is the shou. They won't start a romance until the gong is an adult.

2. A sweet farming story.

Theme: Live positively and keep striving!