My Wife Says She Can Raise Pigs and Me

The Muyang Prince's residence is framed and confiscated, and the family is exiled to Huiyang. The Lu family, whose daughter is engaged to the Muyang Prince's heir, refuses to let their legitimate daughter suffer, so they send Lu Ke, a concubine-born daughter who has transmigrated, in her place.

On the eve of their wedding, Yuan Ye speaks frankly to Lu Ke. He tells her that his family has been exiled here, all their belongings confiscated, and even putting food on the table is a struggle. The family's only asset is two little pigs they bought with borrowed money and keep in the yard. Once the pigs are fattened and sold at New Year, they can pay back the debt and might have enough left to buy some food for the holiday. If Lu Ke doesn't want to stay and suffer, he can write her a letter of release.

Lu Ke is full of determination. "It's fine. I know how to raise pigs."

Yuan Ye: "?"

Lu Ke: "...I can raise you, too."

Yuan Ye: "..."

Later, Yuan Ye is delighted to discover that his little wife is an expert on the diseases of plants and animals. She can raise pigs, cattle, sheep, and horses, and she takes excellent care of them all.

Lu Ke charges ahead on the road to prosperity through animal husbandry.

Many years later, as she gazes over an endless horse ranch, she proudly marvels at how well she has raised all these horses.

Yuan Ye, now cleared of all charges and restored to his official position, lowers his head and toys with her delicate, fair fingers. "Yes, you raised them very well."

Loving someone is like tending a flower. He has raised her well, too.

To stay with the Yuan family, Lu Ke latches onto Yuan Ye using the excuse that she'd long admired his poetry and yearned to meet him. Later, Yuan Ye shares every new poem with her, but Lu Ke knows nothing about poetry and is quite troubled by it.

One day, Lu Ke decides to come clean, but before she can speak, Yuan Ye suddenly asks, "You like the poems the old Yuan Ye wrote, but not mine?"

He presses his lips together, his gaze revealing a hint of obsession. "If the old me and the present me stood before you at the same time, which one would you choose?"

Lu Ke has always thought Yuan Ye a refined gentleman: worldly but uncorrupted by the world, elegant and noble. Even after his family suffers a calamity, and the darkness of the times wears him down, he has seen the full range of human warmth and cruelty, yet still holds to his principles in the lowest moments, keeps his heart turned toward the light, never abandons the aspirations of his youth, and remains steadfast.

It's just that sometimes his temperament seems too gentle, even old-fashioned, leaving him open to being bullied. As Yuan Ye's wife, she has a duty to protect her husband.

Only later does Lu Ke learn what it means to be a gentleman by day and a beast by night; to let him sip his tea as he pleases, while even a gentle breeze can't soothe him; to wield a silver spear and hold the pass alone, unmatched by ten thousand men; and to spill rivers of blood while chatting and laughing.

A heroine who can raise and butcher pigs, practices veterinary medicine, and always has something to say X a male lead who's insanely jealous but keeps it bottled up, so close to going mad, lurking around in the dark, and acting like a green tea

- Marriage first, love later. Family life, building prosperity together, and everyday happenings.

Theme: To love someone is to tend a flower. To build prosperity, start by raising pigs