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Zhang Muchun, the third daughter of a butcher’s family, gave up her cleaver after hearing too much gossip and went to work as a maid in the Liu household in town.
But before she’d even settled into the job, the Liu family went bankrupt. The once-prosperous family quickly fell apart, everyone finding somewhere to go; everyone except the delicate Miss Liu Yunhe.
Because this young lady was harder to serve than a goddess in heaven: the wrong clothes gave her rashes, the wrong food upset her stomach, she couldn’t stand sunlight on her face or carry anything with her hands. To make matters worse, she was fussy and spoiled to the extreme—so beautiful and fragile she seemed like a flower bud about to bloom, yet everyone avoided her like a hot potato.
Muchun had planned to take her small stash of savings and run, but when she saw the pitiful young lady sitting quietly to the side, her heart softened. Acting on impulse, she took the beauty with her. But inviting a goddess is easy sending her away is hard. Before she knew it, the delicate miss had become her responsibility…
Back in her home village, Muchun received two acres of land and a small thatched hut. She thought life would be manageable if she just picked up her cleaver again and returned to butchering pigs.
But fate had other plans before the house was even finished, a once-in-a-century flood struck. With no choice left, Zhang Muchun grabbed her strength, her cleaver, and her pampered young lady, and fled along with the rest of the villagers on a desperate journey for survival…
Ever since the fall of her family, Miss Liu Yunhe had been suffering from a strange illness. At night, she sometimes dreamed of bizarre things and the terrifying part was, those dreams would later come true.
When everyone else fled in panic, each caring only for themselves, the rough-handed maid who once worked outside the courtyard came to her and said she would take her away. Yunhe didn’t even dare look up at her because she had seen her before in her dreams, where the two of them were entangled in ways too intimate to speak of. Those strong hands, capable of splitting bones in a single chop, were far too audacious… and just the sight of her made Yunhe’s heart race wildly.
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Character Dynamics (Multiple Pairings):
#Delicate, pampered little drama queen × seemingly simple but clever butcher girl
#Scheming white lotus villainess × domineering city lord
#Loyal younger hunter × gentle, alluring widow
Tags: Apocalypse survival · Farming life · Sweet romance · Ancient fantasy · Everyday slice of life · Precognition · Space ability · Cooking and light infrastructure building
Short Summary: A fallen noble lady and her pig-slaughtering wife.
Theme Message: There’s always a road ahead when the cart reaches the mountain, and when the boat reaches the bridge, it will naturally straighten.