Bad news: He died suddenly.
Good news: He transmigrated.
Bad news: His new identity is a penniless nobody who cannot even afford food, and his only asset is a thatched hut on the verge of collapse.
Good news: His new identity comes with a newly arrived "bride."
Shi Fei, who had been single until he died in his previous life, tried to comfort himself. It was not such a bad deal.
But Shi Fei never expected that his new bride was only a teenager, and a boy at that!
Shi Fei: What the hell...
Li Chang'an was born lame, so his father had never liked him. After his mother died, his father made his favored concubine his principal wife. To drive Li Chang'an out of the family, the newly elevated wife found a Taoist priest to claim that he had been born to bring misfortune to his parents, and that the only way to break the curse was to "marry" him off to an orphan whose parents were both dead.
Master Li believed the fortune-telling without question. After learning from the Taoist priest that there was an orphan in Shitou Village ten li away, he sent Li Chang'an off in a small sedan chair to be "married."
Li Chang'an knew it was a plot, but he was frail and lame and could not escape. Bound inside the sedan chair, he was sent to Shitou Village overnight. In the thatched hut, bare of all possessions, he met his "newlywed husband," who was nearly starving to death.
Everyone said Li Chang'an had a wretched fate. Even Li Chang'an himself often wept, bitterly cursing the unfairness of it all. But his husband, who had nearly starved to death, lifted him on his not-so-broad shoulders, carried him along, and bore half a lifetime of wind and rain for him.
A transmigrated science-and-engineering guy x a resilient, crybaby bottom.
Theme: Rowing upstream: stop moving forward, and you fall behind.
