I'll Raise You on the Money I Make Butchering Pigs

Zhu Yuanrun is eighteen. Years of butchering pigs have built her a body packed with muscle, and when she lifts her shirt, she has four more abs than most men.

Now that she's old enough to marry, matchmakers from miles around flee at the mere mention of her.

“Stay away from her. That match is a disaster!”

“Who'd dare arrange a marriage with her? You'd be making an enemy!”

With no one willing to marry his daughter, Butcher Zhu slaps his thigh and decides to find her a live-in son-in-law instead.

The young man is from Xiaogou Village. He's fifteen, a scholar whose family fell on hard times and who returned to the countryside to make a living. Both his parents are dead, and his family's ancestral home and farmland have all been seized. Weak and helpless, he's bullied along with his younger siblings.

When the marriage proposal is made, he thinks it over and asks for one condition: his younger siblings must be allowed to come with him as part of the marriage.

Zhu Yuanrun uses buying pigs as an excuse to go meet him in the countryside. The young man is refined and handsome, with graceful manners and a gentle voice. His eyes and brows are full of warmth. In short, he's absolutely her type.

Zhu Yuanrun: I like him so much (=口`=)

Back home, she tells her father, “It's just two more pairs of chopsticks. Tomorrow looks like a good day to me.”

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After his family is destroyed, Wen Tinglin falls from the clouds into the abyss. Determined to raise his younger siblings, he decides to find a place where they can call home.

At their first meeting, all he sees is a butcher's daughter with a fierce face and a violent nature, holding a pig-slaughtering knife and staring at him nonstop.

His aunt tells him privately, “Butcher Zhu's daughter started slaughtering pigs with her father when she was three. She never lets go of that knife, and she has this nasty habit of getting itchy all over if she goes even one day without slaughtering a pig.”

“If you marry into the Zhu family, whatever else happens, no one will dare bully you again.”

Wen Tinglin: That sounds tempting (=°Д°=)

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After they marry, Zhu Yuanrun slaughters pigs to support Wen Tinglin through his studies.

From licentiate to provincial graduate, then presented scholar and top scorer, Wen Tinglin sails through the imperial exams and enjoys a smooth official career.

Everyone in the capital knows that Lord Wen has a butcher for a wife, a woman with no manners and no refinement. They all wait for him to divorce her and marry someone else.

They wait and wait, until Lord Wen reaches the age of eighty, a handsome old man with a head full of white hair, still as devoted as ever to his beloved butcher wife, cherishing and protecting her like a treasure.

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From Lord Wen's journal:

My wife Yuanrun, just like your name, round and radiant as a pearl, fierce in nature yet kind at heart.

Your pig-slaughtering knife paved my way through life. I love you, cherish you, and treasure you like a precious pearl.

I only hope that every year you'll love me as you did when we first met, and cherish me as you do today.

:D

They are three years apart in age. Marriage first, love later.

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