Just as He Jinxi and Lu Wenjing were on the verge of divorce, the two of them transmigrated together into a farming novel, becoming a doomed husband-and-wife pair.
According to the original story, Lu Wenjing was the heroine's third uncle. Since he had shown a talent for reading from a young age, Grandpa Lu had high hopes for him and rallied the entire family to support his studies and his attempts at the imperial examinations.
But Lu Wenjing spent money like water, squandering the family's hard-earned money every day on food, drink, and fun with his fellow students. He failed the provincial exam three times, and even after the family was dead broke, he threatened to kill himself unless Grandpa Lu sold his niece to fund his continued studies.
His niece, Lu Zhao, transmigrated at just this moment. Naturally, the transmigrated heroine refused to be sold. She did everything she could to make Grandpa Lu see his third uncle's true colors, and got the third branch of the family separated from the rest so they would have to fend for themselves.
The third-branch couple were a pair of good-for-nothings: one couldn't lift a shoulder or carry a hand, while the other was lazy and greedy. They couldn't make ends meet, and every time they schemed to get money from the family home, Lu Zhao thwarted them. In the end, they went down the wrong path.
One was beaten to death by a gambling house over his debts, while the other caught syphilis from a client and died a miserable death.
He Jinxi: "..."
Lu Wenjing: "..."
Divorce could wait. First, they had to escape their doomed fate.
All they could do was roll up their sleeves and work hard. They took up farming and business at the same time, and their lives got better and better. They replaced their shabby house with a new home, and their land grew from three mu to three thousand mu, making them the biggest gentry landlords in the county.
What's more, He Jinxi discovered that their little village tucked away in the mountains was full of hidden talents: a martial artist tired of the endless fighting in the jianghu, a scion of a powerful family whose clan had been purged and who had been rescued by a loyal servant, and a renowned scholar of the age who had withdrawn from the world to focus on his studies.
Well, with such excellent teachers already in place, shouldn't she hurry up and have a little one? If she was lucky, perhaps she could even give birth to the genius son who had tragically died young in her previous life.
Lu Wenjing drew her into his arms and murmured huskily in her ear, "Hmm? Have a little one?"
He Jinxi, whose strength was boundless, shoved him a full three li away and snorted. "You're still on probation. Besides, I don't necessarily have to have a little one with you."
Lu Wenjing: "..."
It seemed the road to winning his wife back would be long. Fortunately, there was one thing he had in abundance: time and patience.
Reading notes:
1. Both leads are each other's only partners in both lives. Infidelity was not the reason for their divorce.
2. The heroine has a (defective) interdimensional trading System.
3. This is a true farming novel. The setting will not change, and it won't turn from farming into palace intrigue and nobility halfway through.
4. More details may be added later.
Theme: Work hard at farming and build a comfortable life in ancient times.