A Huntress's Daily Life in the Mountains

After scraping by in the apocalypse for more than a decade, Feng Yue still died in a sudden tsunami.

When she opened her eyes again, she had been reborn as the youngest daughter of a hunter's family deep in the mountains of an ancient world. She was sixteen, full of vigor, and could eat three bowls of rice in one sitting.

Now, all she wanted was to lie flat.

For the past two years, she had woken to the smell of food, sharpened her knife, petted the cat, and occasionally gone into the mountains with her family to hunt, pick mushrooms, and gather wild greens. Every month on the fifteenth, she could even go down the mountain to the market, listen to storytellers, watch a performance, and eat all kinds of snacks and pastries until she was stuffed...

Then one day, she met a man.

More precisely, a naked man meditating in a freezing pool.

She assumed there really were spirits in this world, so she sat on a rock and watched him for ages: his handsome face, his long neck, and his lean, muscular body. Tsk, tsk, tsk...

"Pervert! Don't run!"

The man climbed out, wrapped in his robe, drew his sword, and chased her across three mountain ridges, intent on killing her.

Once she got away, she thought the trouble was over. Who knew they would keep running into each other?

Again and again...

She had no choice but to grab a weapon and make him see reason by force.

A snake is most dangerous when it coils around a pole.

Yet this martial arts prodigy, who had lost to her, kept showing up at her door, calling her his "beloved" and shamelessly mooching off her family.

Oh! No, wait.

He was eating her family's braised-rice with cured meat, rice soaked in mushroom and chicken soup, rice mixed with shredded meat and bracken, bamboo-tube sticky rice...

*

Later, when the magnolias bloomed in the mountains, he returned under cover of night, only for her to pin him beneath her and hold a dagger to his throat.

Feng Yue looked at him coldly. "Well? What's your excuse this time? You got lost, you're injured, or...?"

Xie Yun Zhe didn't answer. He tilted his head up and kissed her, sealing away the rest of her words.

"I've missed you so much."

A slow-to-warm hunter girl with formidable strength X a tsundere beauty who keeps convincing himself she's in love with him

[Reading Guide]

1. This story is set in a fictional world, focusing mainly on hunting and farming deep in the mountains, with a small amount of martial-arts-world plot.

2. Hunting is included for the sake of the story and is entirely fictional. In real life, selling, raising, or eating wild animals is illegal.

Ongoing novel: A Record of Farming on the Barren Shore. Please add it to your reading list!

[Blurb]:

Yu Jin Yue, an agricultural sciences student, wakes up in ancient times as a refugee who has just survived a flood.

Resettled by the local authorities, she and her younger sister travel several miles and settle in Jiangling. Beneath the embankment, they are given fifteen mu of wasteland and a thatched hut of their own.

The first thing the sisters do after settling in is get on good terms with their neighbors. They borrow all sorts of tools, fetch water, gather firewood, cut grass, dig up wild greens... and finally have their first hot meal.

At least they won't starve to death anymore.

But they don't have a single coin to their names.

How long will they have to live like this, even borrowing a neighbor's flint just to start a fire and cook?

Three days later, a peddler arrived at the village dock.

He was tall and strong, with a handsome face.

Most importantly, his boat was loaded with a pile of supplies she desperately needed.

Yu Jin Yue gritted her teeth and asked him shamelessly, "Um, could I buy some things from you on credit? I'll write you an IOU!"

*

Zhang Tian Kuo had been making his way on the river since he was a boy. He was a strong swimmer with plenty of strength and a robust build, and he commanded a hundred or so men. He was the leader of Qingfeng Stronghold's Thirteen Peaks, ten li outside Jiangling City.

To everyone else, he was a bandit chief.

When the authorities resettled refugees and occupied a large stretch of reed beds along the riverbank, he disguised himself as a merchant and rowed into the village to find out what was going on.

There, he met a woman who was poor and unapologetic about it.

At first, he agreed to let her buy on credit just to see her make a fool of herself.

Who knew she would not only keep her word, but turn that wasteland into fertile fields and produce bumper crops year after year, rising from a refugee to an agricultural official?

*

The day Yu Jin Yue received her transfer order,

Zhang Tian Kuo invited her onto his boat for a trip down the river and a farewell feast.

The moon was high overhead, and the boat reached the middle of the river.

He stared intently at the drowsy woman and said in a low voice, "From now on, I'll be counting on you, Lady Yu, to look after my thirteen water strongholds..."

Yu Jin Yue: ???

#I thought you were my little brother, but you thought I was your bandit bride? #

*A resilient, cheerful heroine with her mind on her career X a sharp-tongued but soft-hearted, big puppy of a hero

Theme: Become an ordinary person again. A fleeting first glance should not be everything.