I Accidentally Married the Bun Shop's Husband (Female-Dominant World)

Pre-release: My Wife Doesn't Want Me After I Lose My Memory [GB], ABO, male pregnancy. If you're interested, please add it to your reading list!

Blurb:

After transmigrating, Xie Yushu learns that her original body belonged to a minor manager at the ferry dock, who was forced to pack up and leave after offending someone with connections.

The house in town had been sold to pay off a gambling debt, so she had no choice but to slink back to the country estate her mother had left her.

The laid-back Xie Yushu takes it all in stride: It's fine. You won't starve in the countryside. Living is fine, and dying is fine too.

The neighbor, a farmer's husband, thinks she is good-looking and kindly offers to introduce her to some unmarried men.

Poor thing, a woman with no husband to take care of her clothes and meals. How can that do?

He goes to great lengths to explain, but Xie Yushu just wears that same expression: You say your piece, I'll listen to mine, her mind clearly somewhere else.

Just as he is running out of breath and about to turn and leave, someone suddenly climbs down from a cart.

The farmer perks up. What do you think of him? He's famous in our village for being beautiful. He could hold his own against anyone in town, except...

Xie Yushu doesn't catch the rest of his mumbling, which is as faint as a mosquito's buzz. She cracks a sunflower seed and looks up:

The newcomer has clean-cut features and a well-proportioned build, with an indescribably pleasant air about him.

But he looks so cold. Hm? He even glared at her.

She shakes her head. She still prefers gentle, sweet-tempered men.

When Xie Yushu goes to town to shop, she spots Su Chi at a little stall set up outside an herbalist's shop. His fingers fly as he wraps up buns, kneading dough, rolling out the wrappers, and adding the filling. In his hands, even the pleats on the buns are as pretty as flower petals.

Xie Yushu visits his stall a few times, and, as expected, he coldly ignores her.

That night, Xie Yushu sits bolt upright on her rickety bed, furious and aggrieved:

Why won't he talk to me? Just because I accidentally touched his hand while paying?! He can touch mine back if he wants. That little husband-to-be is so petty!

Later, when someone else tries to arrange a match for Xie Yushu, Su Chi hears about it somehow. He closes up his stall early and takes the ox cart back to the village. That night, he gathers his courage and knocks on Xie Yushu's door. His eyes are red, the corners damp, and he asks softly, "I... would you let me be your husband?"

Don't marry someone else. Will you marry me?

After unexpectedly getting married, the two rent a shop in town and add all kinds of new dishes to the menu:

Meat flower rolls, pork buns with sesame sauce and three delicacies, chicken broth buns with fresh seafood, soup dumplings with braised pork, and crispy-bottomed pan-fried pork buns. Paired with a bowl of rich, spicy hot pepper soup, salty and spicy tofu pudding, or pork offal soup, it's a piping-hot meal that couldn't be more satisfying.

In spring, they eat spring greens: bamboo shoot buns with braised pork, paired with fresh, sweet broad bean soup.

In summer, when seafood is plentiful, they make Chinese chive and sea intestine buns and sea-snail meat buns with fermented bean paste, paired with a cooling bitter melon broth.

In autumn, when the crabs are plump, they make soup dumplings overflowing with crab roe, paired with nourishing beef bone and radish soup.

In winter, they make lamb buns with desert chives, paired with a warm, comforting lamb offal soup.

Later, they even start steaming soft, tender glutinous rice dumplings.

Farming / Food / Small Business

Reading Guide:

1. A matriarchal setting, with male pregnancy.

2. No great riches, court politics, or imperial examinations.

3. A gentle, slow-paced story that simmers over a low flame.

Theme: Simple food and three meals a day.