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3.5 rounded up to 4; this story is good within the niche 'ancient male wife' and 'transmigating to be a farmer' genresThere is zero entanglement about wanting to go back to modern times. Our gong has no ties left to his modern life and he is very happy to find himself newly married to a handsome man even if it is in an ancient setting and quickly adapts to find a way to survive for him and his wife. His biggest ambition is to protect his family. His biggest virtue is the amount of respect he shows his partner regardless of cultural barriers. The author's descriptions are vivid and almost made me fall in love with the ML's body and want to touch it. 🤤The author starts to explore a 'what if they met in modern times' scenario in the extras which was pretty interesting. I feel like the author considered throwing out some other extras as well, but stopped at a really awkward mid-point in the modern extra. Of note is also that this 4 part modern extra is randomly shared out of order within the main story which was really confusing at first. "Did the MC really die?" "Wait, he met Gu in modern times?? Did he also transmigrate??" These aren't really answered, but the stories don't seem to be directly connected and instead parallel to each other. This is how I concluded it was a 'what if' scenario. I didn't read the author's notes so there is a chance that I missed something though!I think this story could have been a solid 4 without the confusion I mentioned before. A 4.5 if the author had finished the modern extra rather than ending the story on a weird note.
