After Qin Yuan's parents pass away, distant relatives in Shuiqing Town take him in, but all they want is the ten taels of silver his parents left behind.
When they can't get their hands on the money, they resort to dirty tricks, planning to get Qin Yuan pregnant so he can become a husband to their drunken son.
Quick-witted Qin Yuan sees through their scheme. After a huge fight that ends their relationship, he packs his things and runs to the home of a bachelor butcher four streets away, coaxing and pleading until the man agrees to marry him.
Butcher Pei Ye: “Why do you want me to marry you?”
Pei Ye lives alone. He was a soldier and has killed before. His work as a butcher is bloody, and his fierce appearance scares off anyone who might arrange a match for him. Now well into his twenties, he's still a bachelor.
Qin Yuan once passed by the butcher's house. The food Pei Ye made was enough to make anyone who smelled it feel miserable and anyone who saw it want to throw up.
Qin Yuan forces himself to say, “I'm a great cook. If you marry me, I promise you won't have the same meal twice!”
Qin Yuan has a family recipe passed down through generations, but the promise that every meal would be different was a bluff. He doesn't have that many ideas.
Unexpectedly, the butcher agrees. Maybe he's sick of eating his own swill, Qin Yuan thinks with a quiet grin.
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Pei Ye served in the army. After the war ended, he returned to Shuiqing Town and became a butcher.
A man who had fought in a war carried too much bloodshed about him, and no one wanted to marry him. But he didn't mind. Living alone was comfortable enough. Why bother starting a family?
Then one day, he passed by the Liu family home and caught the wonderful aroma of food drifting out. When he asked around, he learned that it was made by the young man the Lius had adopted.
Back at home, he looked at the pork offal soup he'd barely managed to cook. It still had a faint fishy smell.
He wondered whether the young man had already been promised to someone.
1. The seme wants the uke for his cooking, while the uke wants the seme for his strength. A marriage that turns into love~
2. The characters aren't perfect~
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