Even a Straight Man Has to Become a Fulang?

(Currently updating daily: The Handsome Widower Who Just Lost His Husband)

[Husband + Farming + Food + Straight Man Transmigrates Into a Book + Transmigrated Shou + Reborn Gong + Everyday Life]

The devoted husband-to-be is a hopeless romantic. He doesn't care that his fiance flirts around and cheats on him, and lives by the idea that "a man can go out and play, but in the end he'll still come home." In the end, he's tricked by the scumbag into signing a contract of indenture, then kidnapped and sold off.

Ye Ning transmigrates into a book, from an apocalypse plagued by food shortages to a secluded paradise of flowing streams, little bridges, and leafy trees.

The small village is quaint and thriving. He no longer has to worry about food, and everything is the pastoral life Ye Ning has always dreamed of.

However, gazing at the stacks of wedding cakes on the wooden table and the betrothal gifts piled up in the courtyard, Ye Ning, a straight man to the core, faces life's most worldview-shattering dilemma: Does a straight man have to become a husband, too?

His fiance's family just has a few extra pigs. A straight man won't turn gay for pigs. Break off the engagement!

The village is isolated, and the villagers point and whisper as they watch the show. His biased father sighs, his traditional mother cries and wails, and the whole family threatens to die unless Ye Ning begs the scumbag to take him back.

Getting married is easy, right? In no time, Ye Ning picks a new fiance: handsome, broad-shouldered and narrow-waisted, and, most importantly, rich. He's the only son of the village's wealthiest family, and his betrothal gifts stretch all the way from the Ye family home to the big willow tree at the village entrance.

Except... his new fiance is an idiot with impaired mental faculties.

The villagers laugh at Ye Ning for marrying a second time and being so desperate to wed that he chose a landlord's foolish son.

Only Ye Ning knows that this seemingly simple-minded fool is the true protagonist of the book. He's a prince who was lost to the world, and his mind has only been temporarily impaired. One day, the court will find him and bring him back. He'll be made Crown Prince, rise to the top, inherit the whole empire, and become its ruler!

Marrying an idiot means there's no danger of turning gay, and he can enjoy the Crown Prince's favor later. What a bargain.

Ye Ning's plans are crystal clear: "This isn't marriage. It's an investment."

Ye Ning gathers his only dowry, a rundown noodle stall. When the shop reopens, it offers all kinds of noodles, plus a host of exciting new dishes: boiled pork, hot pot, luosifen, sizzling grilled meat, mala dry pot, sweet-and-sour pork, curry pork cutlet rice, bubble tea, brown sugar ice jelly, and more.

The backward little village has never seen such a variety of exotic delicacies. The diners who come from far and wide crowd the village entrance. Before long, the little noodle stall becomes a bigger one, then expands into a grand restaurant, with new branches opening in the surrounding countryside, towns, and cities.

Ye Ning not only makes his restaurant a thriving success, but also manages to fatten up his nominal husband, who suffers from anorexia.

Then one day, Ye Ning discovers that he's not the only one who transmigrated. His foolish husband has been reborn, too.

He's been pretending to be an idiot all along...

One-on-one, both pure, happy ending

A gong who has seen the world's cruelty, plays dumb, has acting skills off the charts, and dotes on his shou VS

A cool-headed, money-loving, straight-man shou whose abacus beads could fly right into the gong's face

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Theme: Life calls for optimism and hard work