Everyday Life in Qingmiao Village

(Story blurb):

Spring comes, summer grows, autumn harvests, winter stores. Three meals a day, peace and good health.

Jiang Yun was sold by his cruel stepmother for thirty taels of silver to be wed to a dead man. Despairing, he jumped into a river to end his life, but Gu Chengwu happened to ride past and rescued him. News spread that an unmarried young man had been carried out of the water by a strange man. With no choice, Jiang Yun clutched his little bundle and married him, trembling with fear. He was terrified of the tall, broad-shouldered man and thought he'd have to live at someone else's mercy from then on. But a few months later, he found his cheeks plump and his whole body looking fresh and healthy.

To Gu Chengwu, the skinny Jiang Yun was undeniably delicate, light enough to lift with one hand. But as his little husband gradually lowered his guard and began following him everywhere, Gu Chengwu's gaze grew gentler too.

[Reading Guide]

1. A gentle, slow-blooming romance about daily life in the countryside. For readers who enjoy pastoral living, have fun with it~

2. Some details are fictionalized and based on personal interpretation, so don't expect strict accuracy.

3. This is my first story, so please be kind if it's not very good!

[New Story Coming Soon] Winter, the Little Husband, please add it to your favorites >v<

A flood struck Hexi County, leaving Dong Ge'er a poor homeless boy. He went with his grandmother, his only family, to seek shelter with relatives, but they were thrown out with nowhere to go.

To pay for his grandmother's medical treatment, Dong Ge'er had no choice but to hang a little sign around his neck and sell himself.

A man passing by bought him on the condition that he become the man's husband.

The man not only promised to pay for his grandmother's treatment, but also to support her. He was just so tall and fierce that Dong Ge'er was afraid of him. Still, with tears in his eyes, he summoned his courage and followed him home.

Xiao Yi was twenty, and men his age in the village already had children running around.

He wasn't interested in any of the village girls or boys. He only wanted the little boy selling himself with a sign around his neck. Xiao Yi thought he was handsome and filial, so he paid two taels of silver to take him home and even paid for his grandmother's treatment.

But the little boy was so afraid of him that he watched Xiao Yi's expression even while bathing or eating, and trembled whenever Xiao Yi touched him.

The villagers thought Xiao Yi was a good match because he had no parents and ten mu of fertile farmland. They fought tooth and nail to marry their daughters and sons to him. Xiao Yi rejected every one of them and even chased the matchmaker out.

Then they heard that Xiao Yi had casually bought a boy from the street. The boy came with his whole family in tow, and his pregnancy mark was faint. A boy who couldn't bear children on his own would surely be cast out eventually.

But they waited and waited, and all they saw was Xiao Yi softly comforting his upset little husband, too precious to touch even a single strand of his hair.

Theme: Let the soul return to nature for a little while, and unwind from work.