After pulling two all-nighters at work, Li Ji closed his eyes and opened them again.
The good news: He was still alive.
The bad news: From the start, he'd become the most hated lazy good-for-nothing in Yuyang Village in another world.
The lazybones spent his days loafing around and doing nothing. He wouldn't even set an oil bottle upright if it fell over, and when his clothes got dirty, he'd just turn them inside out and keep wearing them. The villagers avoided him, and they never stopped gossiping about him behind his back.
Li Ji: What kind of catastrophic start is this?!
To pay his land tax by the end of the year, this "useless lump" with virtually no life skills had no choice but to learn how to farm.
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The villagers have recently noticed that the lazybones they can't stand has changed.
Not only is he neat and tidy, he's also somehow become hardworking. Even the way he speaks and handles things is now sensible and proper.
Old Wang, the village head, strokes his gray-white beard. "I knew it! Getting married really does change a man!"
But Li Ji is troubled by Wang Yu, his husband, who has a reputation for being fierce and domineering.
Just as he is wondering how to get along with him, one night around midnight, he gets up in the dark to use the outhouse. Passing by, he hears Wang Yu muttering suspiciously under a tree, "Prosperity, democracy, civility, harmony, friendship..."
Li Ji: How are you?
Wang Yu, looking shocked, instinctively blurts out: Fine, thank you, and you?
Li Ji: A fellow countryman is like a long-lost friend.
After arguing with his idiotic boss, Wang Yu falls flat on his face and wakes up in Yuyang Village.
He does his best to maintain his identity as a local. Worried the villagers might see through him, he decides to team up with his fellow out-of-place "husband" and make a show of being a couple.
Who knew Li Ji would be such a dedicated actor?
In front of others, he's incredibly kind to Wang Yu, bringing him tea, rubbing his shoulders, even sewing him a tiger-head doll as his "baby."
In private, he also plays the role of husband with complete conviction.
Only when Li Ji pins him down on the kang does Wang Yu finally realize: "Isn't this taking the role a little too seriously?!"
Reading Guide:
1. A cozy, sweet slice-of-life story about family and farming. Both leads transmigrated and are not natives of this world.
2. There will be a child later on.
Theme: Hard work brings prosperity
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