The Wilds’ Returning Swan (Farming)

After an earthquake, Bian Hong inexplicably woke up in another world.

War and famine were everywhere, and he had nothing to his name,

but now he also had two pitiful little brothers.

He had no choice but to take the children and struggle to find somewhere to live.

To keep from starving, he traded himself for fifty jin of millet and married in someone else's place.

They said the person he was to marry was descended from the beasts of the mountains,

with hooked claws and saw-like teeth, vicious and savage.

He was even rumored to have a taste for human flesh. Everyone paled at the thought of him.

Bian Hong didn't care. It was better than starving to death, and at least it would be quick.

But when the bridal sedan's curtain was lifted, the man before him was tall and handsome,

with deep, sea-like eyes of blue and brown.

The man looked at Bian Hong, whom he had met once before, and seemed to have something to say but held it back.

He could hardly believe that the old switch-the-bride trick had been played on him.

When it became clear that the replacement marriage had been exposed, the man asked only one thing:

"Where are the two children you brought?"

Looking at the man, Bian Hong felt his heart finally settle.

Before he passed out from hunger, he muttered to himself,

What, you want to eat all three of us, big and small?

The man's name was Rong Feng.

He was a Shoushan Guard, a post passed down through countless dynasties and long since fallen into decline.

His duty was to oversee dangerous mountains and treacherous lands, maintaining communication between the "mountains" and humanity.

But because his eyes were different from other people's, the world feared him. He gradually withdrew from society, living alone with his elderly mother beneath Miemeng Mountain, which he had been assigned to guard.

His mother was old and gravely ill, and wanted her son to have a companion before she died.

So, despite her son's objections, she offered a sky-high bride price to find him a wife.

But the person who came was not a woman, but a man.

That very day, Rong Feng carried a groom dressed head to toe in wedding red up the mountain.

And he came with a "buy one, get two free" deal, bringing two children along.

Two strangers had suddenly become husband and husband in name,

and it was inevitably awkward living together. Bian Hong could only think how absurd it all was.

But in the end, he truly came around.

Bian Hong petted all the adorable creatures from Miemeng Mountain that filled the courtyard,

then curled up in Rong Feng's arms and gazed at the layered mountain peaks.

Beautiful things are often misunderstood by the world. After drifting through two lives, he had finally found his true "home" in these magnificent mountains and waters.

From then on, the wild goose had returned to its nest.

The whole story in two sentences:

A farming and mountain-protection story with a few twists and turns.

A war-traumatized orphan's courageous journey toward saving himself.

### Important notes, read this first ↓

This is not a story about the mundane details of family life. If that's what you want, don't click in! Don't click in!

In the main story, Bian Hong is a man and there is no pregnancy. There is pregnancy in the extras, but no one is intersex.

Coming soon: "A Lone Soul in the Apocalypse," a farming story

Yan Miao used to be a forest ranger. He woke up one day to find the apocalypse had begun.

The animals in the forest had mutated, and even the plants were eating people.

Luckily, the dog he had raised since it was a puppy had mutated too, but was still as obedient as ever.

The man and his dog began their arduous struggle to survive in the forest where he had once worked.

Yue Zhiyuan was a special operations soldier and ace fighter.

His final mission from his superiors was to enter the heavily polluted mountains of the west and find the source of the contamination.

Along the way, his squadmates were killed or mutated, until he was left to face everything alone.

With the last of his strength, he reached the most polluted forest.

Before he passed out, he saw Yan Miao riding a giant dog.

Seeing a living human there, he thought it was a hallucination.

But the hand the man reached out to him was warm.

And that was when the wheels of fate began to turn.

Apocalypse survival, farming, a desperate struggle to stay alive, until all things bloom again.

Theme: People and nature should live in harmony.