The Female Chef's Husband

My new novel, "The Daily Struggles of a Woman in Ancient Times," is underway. Please add it to your reading list! Blurb below:

Gu Mo had been loved for years by her childhood friend, the handsome campus heartthrob. After graduation, he proposed to her. Gu Mo left him two lines and ended their "relationship":

"I thought we were like sisters, but you want to marry me?"

"I'm Gu Mo, and I'm gay."

Her aloof childhood friend locked himself in his room for two days without food or water. Love turned to hate, and he cursed Gu Mo.

Because of the curse, Gu Mo transmigrated to the era before liberation, landing in a poor ancient farming household with a burden to care for. Her supposed "husband" had been conscripted.

No elders, brothers, or sisters in her husband's family. How peaceful!

Her own parents played favorites, her relatives were scheming, the thatched cottage was falling apart, and the household had no food to harvest. What a mess!

But it was all right. Her "husband" would eventually return, and the young couple found hope for survival in this beautiful land of mountains and rivers.

Gu Mo was extraordinarily skilled. She could raise children, tend livestock, farm, plant trees, and grow flowers.

With hard-working hands, anyone could change their fate and begin a new chapter of peasants turning their lives around!

And this "husband" wasn't the husband she had before. Gu Mo's eyes sparkled with excitement as she secretly rubbed her hands together...

Gu Mo: "Sweetheart, don't you think our house feels a little empty?"

Little one: "It's okay, Mother. An'er has you, and that's enough. I'll never be lonely!"

Gu Mo smiled. "If you had two mothers to love you, and one of them could toss you up in the air like Ermao's father does, would you want another mother?"

The adorable little one gazed up with big, innocent eyes full of confusion. Two mothers? He wiped away a tear with his little hand. An'an could have a "father" to love him, too!

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Content warnings:

1. This story has its own worldbuilding. The first child born to the top and bottom is a boy. If you don't like that, please don't read.

2. In this story, the founding empress of the dynasty was a lesbian, known in ancient times as "grinding mirrors." She had sons with her empress consort, legalized lesbian relationships, and brought "divine water" (a special medicine) to lesbians who couldn't conceive, allowing women in same-sex relationships to have children normally.

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On the day her eldest sister married, Yu Jin was reborn.

Seeing the bustle in her home, she felt only endless scorn.

The debts and humiliations of her past life, she would reclaim one by one in this life.

But then a woman suddenly appeared, intent on carrying her away. What did that mean?

Theme: Even an ordinary life can be extraordinary.