The Hunter's Delicate Care for Her Young Husband

Born with a silver spoon in his mouth, Gu Nianqing had always been a delicate soul, with tender skin and a fragile constitution. But after falling into the water and reopening his eyes, he found himself transformed into a downtrodden farm boy, unloved by his parents and oppressed since childhood. With his faint pregnancy mark rendering him infertile and undesirable as a spouse, he became the village’s “old bachelor” at twenty, still unmarried. His biased parents, eager to squeeze the last bit of use out of him, accepted a betrothal gift of a pig and two taels of silver from the widowed old butcher next door, intending to sell him off as a replacement wife. Gu Nianqing’s vision went dark: ....