The Child Bride Urged to Study [Republican Era]

One-line pitch: I wanted to be a pampered child bride, but he insisted I get an education.

Coming of age + love that grows over time + male lead reborn.

Ning Yao was a child bride, raised in the Ning family from a young age.

From childhood, Mrs. Ning constantly reminded her to call Ning Yiwen "Brother Ning" and told her she would marry him when she grew up.

She was well-behaved and kept those words in her heart.

But she didn't understand why Brother Ning refused to marry her when she was sixteen.

Instead, he sent her to a modern school.

It wasn't until she made a name for herself in a debate competition at nineteen that Brother Ning proposed to her.

But by then, romance was no longer the most important thing to her.

Books had shown her herself and the world. She wanted to go out and do something she cared about.

For example, being a war correspondent sounded fascinating.

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Ning Yiwen was reborn, back to the age of ten.

Ning Yao was still a tiny girl beside him, innocent, lively, and ignorant of the ways of the world.

Unlike in his previous life, when the weight of life had bent her back.

In his previous life, she had gathered his remains and kept watch over his grave.

In this life, it was his turn to protect her.

But as she grew up, becoming more lively and more radiant, he could no longer hold himself back.

A proposal became the natural thing to do.

He just hadn't expected that he was no longer her whole world.

**The next book is "Imperial Palace Cuisine of the Tang, Now Served from a Street Stall," a historical-to-modern food story.**

Here's the blurb:

★ Fire and ice literary duo | Everyday food | Historical-to-modern | Running a business

A Tang dynasty imperial chef, an adorable young woman, a sunny girl with a very relaxed disposition

A modern police officer, a cool guy, a brooding, expressionless iceberg

Luo Yan was a female official in the Tang Palace's Bureau of Imperial Cuisine. Her Luo family dishes were so exquisite that everyone in the palace praised her.

When she opened her eyes again, she was an unlucky unemployed person in the modern world: her parents were dead, she was drowning in debt, her rent was due, and her pockets were emptier than her face was clean.

But that was all right. She had her cooking skills, and she'd never go hungry wherever she went.

After a great deal of effort, she got a secondhand food cart and set up a "Great Tang Snack Stall."

Soon, the whole snack street went crazy. People lined up early in the morning for a taste of "cherry biluo," even before she opened, and food bloggers came from far and wide.

The cart became a storefront, then the storefront became a freestanding house. Her bank balance grew from two digits to seven.

Her business was booming.

The only thing that gave her a headache was a uniformed man who hung around her stall every day.

Hey, you. You only arrested me once, so why are you staking out my stall every day?

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Yan Xu, captain of the criminal investigation squad, was known throughout the unit as the iron-faced King of Hell.

At some point, he started going to the food street every day, and all kinds of little snacks began appearing on his desk.

Sweet and savory, they all came from that Tang dynasty snack stall.

The people in his unit: Heh heh.

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Later, when CCTV's "A Legacy on the Tip of the Tongue" came to interview her and asked how Luo Yan could perfectly recreate flavors from a thousand years ago,

she smiled at the camera. "Maybe it's because I was a Tang dynasty person in my previous life."

In front of the TV, Yan Xu touched the pocket containing the rough recipe she'd casually written for him. The handwriting carried the unmistakable elegance of a thousand years ago.

Forget it, he wouldn't call her out. Besides, he'd be sticking around for this food for the rest of his life.

Upcoming novel notes:

1. The foods in this story have been carefully researched through archaeological sources. For the sake of the plot, they'll be tastier than their modern counterparts. No arguing.

2. Both leads are sexually inexperienced. Their romance is like a middle school crush, and they won't be pushed into a relationship. This is a slow-burn story.

3. I'll add more if I think of anything.

Theme: Reading makes people wise