How to Make My Baby Fall for Me

Highbrow, high-morality novelist x vulgar, rough-and-ready farm-stay owner

Male lead's perspective:

Xia Dahai is a farmer, a farmer with a little education.

After graduating, he went home and opened a farm stay, planning to farm and raise chickens for the rest of his life.

Xia Dahai's parents told him he'd never find a wife.

Any girl from a family of similar standing would work her hardest to get out and go to college.

He'd gone home to farm. What girl would like him enough to marry into a village?

No girl was interested in Xia Dahai, but he had his own wild streak.

He was the one who could be interested in someone else.

And he had a sharp eye.

At first sight, he fell for the young woman from the Li family, a graduate of a prestigious university.

For some reason, the Li family's young woman had no interest in her bright future.

She didn't want to make her way in the bustling city.

Instead, she insisted on returning to a little place like Baotou Village.

She hardly ever stepped outside.

Xia Dahai's love at first sight had him fretting with impatience.

They were separated by just two courtyard walls, yet he couldn't even see her.

How was he supposed to woo the girl?

Female lead's perspective:

Li Hongsha's desire to be around groups of people kept fading, and her aversion to them grew.

At last, she reached her breaking point. She couldn't stand the city's crowds at all.

Li Hongsha went back to her hometown.

Suddenly, everyone seemed easy to get along with.

Except for the son of the Xia family next door.

He was so noisy.

He raised chickens, ducks, fish, and pigs all day, and he was so obsessed with being clean.

He could shower eight times in a day.

And every single time he went out, she ran into him.

He never wore his shirt properly or dried his hair properly.

Water droplets slid down his muscles.

He had a towel right in his hand, but he just had to lift his hand and lick it with his tongue.

He's crazy.

That man has no sense of propriety.

Recommending my ongoing novel, "I Couldn't Understand Animal Speech, but I Kept the Stars of an Abandoned Zoo Alive." Blurb below

After Bai Xunxia was confirmed to be a guide,

the White Tower's matchmakers kept sending her to counsel sentinels recovering from the war.

Those sentinels were fierce and cruel,

treating human lives like weeds,

and always mouthing off to Bai Xunxia.

After completing her internship,

in an era when there were enough guides to go around,

she chose to quit.

In an instant, the world became a place of birdsong and flowers,

filled with beauty at every turn.

Bai Xunxia decided to spread that beauty

by buying an old, neglected zoo that everyone hated.

The conditions inside were unbearable.

The tiger in the big cat enclosure was miserable,

the old wolf leading the pack was all skin and bones, with the rest dead,

and the snow leopard kept jumping from high places, trying to kill itself;

The orca at the aquarium had stopped swearing,

the giant octopus kept biting off its own tentacles,

and the jellyfish drifted on the surface, unable to find oxygen;

Then there was the bird sanctuary.

The peacock had lost its tail feathers,

the parrot had lost its voice,

and the ostrich buried its head in the trash-filled dirt.

How pitiful.

Bai Xunxia patted her chest, determined to be a strong mother.

She swore to keep this bunch of "children" alive.

But as she went on caring for them,

how did they all... learn to talk?

Looking at the peacock displaying its feathers, the snow leopard rubbing its scent on her, and the giant octopus stamping her with its tentacles...

Before you try to court your "mom," have you ever read the Dao De Jing?

Author's setting notes: This story has many original worldbuilding elements. It shares a background with the other books in the series, but can be read on its own.

[Beastfolk era → guide-sentinel era → ABO era, in chronological order]

[Mental entities appear much like the Patronus in the Harry Potter films, but their forms are more concrete.]

[Pheromones have little influence during the guide-sentinel era, laying the groundwork for the ABO era.]

[Although guides can be matched with multiple sentinels, guides are actually in a disadvantaged position.]

[The animals that guides have as mental entities are also disadvantaged in the natural world. This doesn't mean there are no powerful animals, just that they are in the minority.]

[Sentinels and guides can be male or female, but there are more male sentinels and more female guides. This is a setting created specifically for the main storyline, not discrimination.]

Oblivious, universally adored guide VS readers guessing who the male lead is

1. Mostly unrequited crushes, but 1v1, and the male lead is already decided.

2. Not a traditional guide-sentinel story.

3. The female lead grows over time; she doesn't mature overnight.

4. The main plot moves slowly, with a lot of worldbuilding.

Core theme: Whether I move forward or fall behind, I'll be here