Reborn to Spoil My Star-Crossed Little Husband

[A fishing-village farming story. The full novel is complete. Please support the official release. Thank you so much.] Next story: "Notes from the Mountains in All Four Seasons". A mountain forager marries a young man from beyond the mountains. The blurb is at the bottom. I’ll announce the release date in the blurb and notices once it’s set~ [Blurb] In his previous life, Zhong Ming aimed too high and had too little ability, trusting the wrong people. He wasted his natural talent for swimming and ended up losing his boat and family, then dying in battle far from home. Reborn, he only wants to find a spouse and live an honest, down-to-earth life. Everyone says the second son of the Su family was born with six fingers and brings misfortune to his family. Zhong Ming, however, thinks he’s capable, hardworking, and kind-hearted. He just looks pale and thin, as if he never gets enough to eat. He thinks that if he marries the young man and brings him home as his husband, he’ll make sure he grows healthy and plump. ** Su Yi has had a hard life. His parents died soon after he was born, and the uncle who took him in drowned at sea. Branded a jinx, he endures mockery and ridicule every day. He envies the fish in the sea, free to swim wherever they please. One day, Zhong Ming, the skilled fisherman from the Zhong family who can dive, comes to ask for his hand in marriage. He offers heavy copper coins and gleaming new rice as the betrothal gifts. After they marry, the young man asks for nothing but enough food at every meal. But his husband treats him wonderfully, buying him new clothes and pastries, making fishbone wind chimes and grinding shell beads into hair ornaments. Later, they leave their boat and settle on land, growing rice in the sandy fields, raising ducks for their eggs, and building a sturdy oyster-shell house. The whole family is officially registered as residents, and their descendants can take the imperial examinations. From then on, the family’s fortunes change. The young man once despised by everyone as a jinx isn’t cast aside. Instead, he becomes a landowner’s husband and is no longer looked down on. ** Everyone says that “people of the water” are born humble and fated to have no land, livelihood, household registration, or graves for generations. Having died once, Zhong Ming doesn’t believe it, and he refuses to accept it. In this life, he vows not to drift aimlessly again. He’ll take his whole family ashore. [A hardworking, career-minded reborn top x a lonely, resilient, pitiful bottom] Completed farming novels in my collection: "A Guide to Feeding the Villain’s Husband": Chef top x Commander bottom "The Divine Doctor Son-in-Law Doesn’t Want to Be Kept": Divine doctor top x Hunter bottom Reader’s guide: 1. Top-focused, with the couple doting on each other [Please note]. The top is reborn. A slow-paced, slice-of-life story focused on fishing-village life. Later, they settle on land and build a small estate, but remain by the sea and never become fabulously wealthy. 2. Includes the “ge’er” setting, pregnancy, and child-rearing. 3. The “people of the water” in the blurb are partially inspired by the historical Dan people, but the era and region in this story are entirely fictional. The worldbuilding is made up from the ground up, truly from the ground up! The author isn’t an expert in this field; research came from books and the internet. Please don’t apply it to real life. 4. Both leads are ancient-era locals shaped by their time and environment. They aren’t perfect characters. [Upcoming story blurb] Huo Ling’s great-grandfather was a bandit in the northern mountains who once ruled the region. By the time Huo Ling’s father came along, the family had completely reformed and become mountain foragers, living quietly in the depths of the mountains. After their parents died, the two brothers divided the family property. The older brother became a farmer, but Huo Ling refused to change professions. He inherited the little forest lodge left by the older generation. His biggest problem was finding a wife willing to go into the mountains with him. Then a group of refugees arrived in the village at the foot of the mountain. Among them was a sickly young man whose entire family had died. Huo Ling asked him, “Do you want to live?” The young man said yes. Huo Ling asked again, “If you become my husband, you’ll have to go into the mountains with me to forage. There are wild beasts and snakes up there. Are you afraid?” The young man said no. Huo Ling made up his mind on the spot. He was the one. A wild ginseng root saved Yan Qi’s life. After the two married, Yan Qi followed Huo Ling to his home in the mountains. Mountain foragers live off the mountains. As Huo Ling puts it, “There’s everything up there except grain crops.” They gather mushrooms, dig up ginseng, collect pine nuts, and pick fruit. They catch big fish, crayfish, and forest frogs, and hunt roe deer. There’s something to gather in every season. Even when famine strikes below, they never go hungry in the mountains. Wild mushrooms stewed with pheasant, fresh fish braised in sauce, frog meat stir-fried with chilies, crayfish blanched in clear water... They sell their mountain produce for grain, then enjoy steamed buns, pancakes, and noodles, with a different menu every day. * When the long winter season arrives, Huo Ling has energy to spare and nowhere to put it, so he finds another way to work up a sweat. The following spring, the stream breaks free of the ice and buds sprout on the bare trees. The villagers at the foot of the mountain are astonished to see that Yan Qi, who married into the mountains last year, has been raised by Huo Ling into a rosy-cheeked, bright-eyed beauty. But why is his belly growing, too? Theme: Work hard and prosper; food and clothing will follow naturally.