[December 11, 2023] First version of the blurb:
A sharp-tongued, talkative young soldier who serves as a military doctor × a frail, sickly, calm and quiet designer
Mu Jianlan got into a car accident, broke his leg, and found that the sky had changed.
It really had changed.
One moment he was under the gray, sunless skies of Wudu. The next, he was on a battlefield stretching beneath endless yellow sands.
Before he'd figured out what was going on, a young man in black rescued him. The young man had bright eyes and pearly teeth, and a handsome face. Too bad he never stopped talking.
Mu Jianlan was so dizzy from the chatter that he promptly passed out.
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When he woke again, he was in someone's home. The young man in black had changed into white, and he was still just as handsome.
But now the young man's face was black as the bottom of a pot. He glared at Mu Jianlan and said viciously, “If anyone asks later, tell them we're lovers. Got it?”
Mu Jianlan blinked. The next moment, a crowd of matchmakers and aunties barged in, eager to find the young man a match.
Mu Jianlan suddenly understood. Overcome with sympathy, he looked at Ye Mingyang with tender, wounded eyes and used the most coquettish voice he could muster. “Nie Lang, we promised to spend our lives together, just the two of us! You heartless, fickle cad! You caterpillar!”
The aunties and Ye Mingyang were all dumbfounded.
After the matchmakers and aunties left, Ye Mingyang shut the door and snapped, unable to take it anymore, “My surname is Ye!”
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The Ye family wasn't wealthy, even though Ye Mingyang received a stipend from the imperial court.
With the frail Mu Jianlan now another mouth to feed, the family was stretched even thinner and struggled to make ends meet. Mu Jianlan knew how hard things were for the Ye family and didn't want to live off them or be useless.
The war had ended, and Ye Mingyang had returned home to farm. Mu Jianlan made some snacks to sell at the market, and they managed to get by.
But Mu Jianlan didn't stop there. He pooled his money and opened a clothing shop.
Women of all ages, from aunties in their forties and fifties to young women in their twenties, all stopped to look and happily opened their purses.
The matchmakers also kept arriving at the Ye home in droves, but now they were trying to find matches for Mu Jianlan instead of Ye Mingyang.
Ye Mingyang ground his teeth and chased them out. “He's mine!”
Pretending turns real, and a sharp-tongued man pursues his beloved.
1. Farming life √
2. Food √
3. No childbirth √
Theme: Eat well and live well
