The Bamboo-Weaving Wife’s Farming Life

My next contemporary romance, Trapped at Dusk [Rekindled Romance], is coming soon. Please add it to your reading list. The blurb is at the bottom.

Blurb:

Jiang He is woken by crying and discovers that she has transmigrated.

Her original body belonged to a stepmother. Her new husband left her alone on their wedding night, then died not long after. She spent five years raising a girl who wasn't her own, working tirelessly while enduring abuse from her husband's family. In the end, exhausted in body and mind, she struck her head against a pillar and died.

Unwilling to spend her life at the mercy of others, Jiang He decisively separates from the family and takes the child and a few household belongings to live in the mountains.

So what if the house is bare? She'll roll up her sleeves and get to work.

With her bamboo-weaving skills, a healthy body, and mountains and water nearby, she's confident she can make a good life for herself in the mountains.

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Song Yan is thrown off a cliff on a stormy night, crashing through half of a thatched hut on the mountainside.

After barely surviving, he realizes his own brother tried to kill him. Unable to let it go, he decides to starve himself to death.

But the food in the hut smells too good, and the woman before him seems to be doing it on purpose.

A greasy chicken leg in one hand, hot sheep's milk in the other. She eats like it's the best meal in the world.

He tosses and turns until midnight, unable to sleep. Then a bowl of rice porridge is placed beside him. She knew he'd get hungry and deliberately saved him some.

Unfortunately, he's too stubborn to admit defeat. After some half-hearted resistance, he agrees to stay and work for her, repaying the debt of his life.

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As time passes, the thatched hut on the mountainside becomes more and more homelike.

Rows of cured meat and dried fish fill the yard. The rice in the fields grows heavy with grain, the hens brood in their coop, and the children and the little dog they found never stop playing together.

Jiang He opens a bamboo-weaving shop in the county town.

She sells bamboo crafts in all sorts of designs, and takes in homeless women, teaching them a skill so they can make a living.

They aren't rich, but their days are relaxed and happy.

Simple meals, three meals a day, and a peaceful life together: that's enough.

"Kind, clever bamboo-weaving heroine x younger, childish but devoted hero"

Reader's guide:

1. A cozy, healing slice-of-life farming story, with a slow pace.

2. The male and female leads are both sexually inexperienced. 1v1, and no character is perfect.

3. Set in an imaginary dynasty, with plenty of fictional details.

4. Not a wish-fulfillment novel. They only earn a little money and live a quiet life. The farthest they travel is the county town.

Upcoming novel, Trapped at Dusk [Rekindled Romance], blurb:

They reunite at the beginning | Rekindled romance | Bittersweet and sweet | Primarily urban setting | A romance where neither moves on

Blurb: Yu Yan sees Pei Qingyan again while on her way to check out a trendy restaurant.

The man stands with his arms crossed, leaning against a wall. His black utility jacket hangs open, casually revealing a delicate silver chain at his collarbone.

His side-parted hair, combed back, gives him a bold, handsome look, but the gaze he turns on the woman beside him is impossibly tender.

Yu Yan remembers the summer of her freshman year.

In a seaside villa, he looked at her with that same smoldering gaze, shamelessly clinging to her again and again, begging her to give in.

The gorgeous sunset glimmered over the sea behind them, while passion blossomed between them.

He nipped at her earlobe and kissed her until she trembled, her fair cheeks damp and flushed in the fading light.

Yu Yan turns to leave, but unexpectedly meets the man's sharp gaze.

Her face betrays her surprise.

She forcefully reins in her uncontrolled expression, nods with a smile, and walks away with her camera, pretending to be calm.

Later, she is privately relieved that the happy couple never saw her make a messy escape around the corner.

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They unexpectedly end up in the same frame at a college classmate's bachelor party.

Their classmates, who know their history, are curious about their relationship now.

Pei Qingyan shakes his head with a cold laugh, looking at Yu Yan with brazen amusement.

"Of course we're strangers. After all, I'm not as heartless as Miss Yu. You walked away without a second thought, leaving me no dignity at all."

Everyone thinks the once dashing young man, who pursued love recklessly and without restraint, has made it clear by laughing coldly and bringing up the past in front of so many people that there's no chance of them getting back together.

Someone as proud as Pei Qingyan would never return to a woman who publicly dumped him and left him humiliated.

No one sees Pei Qingyan turned away at Yu Yan's door on a rainy evening.

The darling of high society is soaked through. With his expensive leather jacket beneath him, he sits on the dusty steps outside her door all night, unfazed by the complicated, disapproving looks from people passing by.

At dawn, when the man is found feverish and mumbling from the cold, he still remembers to pull his leather jacket over himself to look cool.

The first thing he does after waking up in the hospital is lean shamelessly against the person beside him.

"I was too young and impulsive back then. I take back agreeing to break up. Yanyan, will you give me one more chance?"

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On her birthday, Yu Yan holds a livestream for the first time in ages.

Pei Qingyan, fresh from a shower, accidentally appears on camera.

His wet, curly hair clings to the sides of his ears. His lean body is sharply defined beneath a thin racerback tank top. Droplets of water obediently follow his fingers as he runs them through his hair, sliding down to the hidden curves of his waist.

The comments instantly erupt.

Yu Yan turns around in surprise and catches the deep kiss the man leans down to give her.

That very night, the man's distinguished identity is exposed. At the same time, another video trending online goes viral.

The first half of the video is taken from Yu Yan's restaurant-review vlog. Pei Qingyan appears on the street, glancing toward the camera with seemingly casual eyes.

The second half looks like an explanation for their chance encounter.

He runs wildly down the street, then stops at his destination and remembers to ask the person beside him for permission before striking an irresistibly seductive pose.

#Love is staying true to one person, and plotting for it all along#

Cool and stubborn x roguishly handsome and scheming

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