Spoiler The Big Landlord

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    You made the thread *.* ....*hugs and gives cookies <3*

    Does the ml know the one he marries is a guy? ...if so why did he do it? (since the mc is fat :D)
     
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    Yummy! Macadamia nuts, my favorite <3~~~

    I thought MC went on a diet?
     
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    Then i really want his diet :D ...i think the sammury said it his dad died a few days after he came to the world
     
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    scriptor 『Sigilmaster』 『Immortal Sage』

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    Okay, so beginning summaries of first half (there's like 42 pages of chapters lol, I've only got through 20 pages and skimmed the ending, which is definitely HE):

    After MC transmigrates, he finds out he's in the body of a fatty. The fatty apparently died from hypothermia; he was out in the snow all night. Our MC is considered to have scraped by with his 'life' by the skin of his teeth lol. His family is set up the like the typical ancient one: father, wife, concubines (3). His father and mother (wife) are dead. The concubines are scheming for the inheritance even though he's the eldest because he seems like easy prey. Original!fatty liked to eat way too much and was sorta useless. Oh, and did I mention his evil sisters? XD

    At first, he makes nice with one of them (his direct one from mother I think) and sorta has hopes of a sibling relationship. Blah blah our MC decides to go on a diet and catch up on things -- the old butler/steward is a good old man and practically weeping tears of joy at the change in the young master -- but eventually pressure from the concubines leads him to dig out some ancient family history and take out a marriage contract between their landowning (minor nobility) family and some major nobility. These ties would theoretically make it impossible if not insanely difficult for the concubines to get their hands on the inheritance because of the metaphorical 'golden thigh.'

    MC is a nice dude and of course talks it out with his sister, ending that he won't push her for the marriage if she doesn't want it in the end. She agrees to try. ML has to agree to the meeting but he happened to be killing people lol, so meeting courtyard was stained with blood and a lot of people puked. ML is a prince and an infamous god of war. Lotsa people look faint/puke, but ML is intrigued by MC's calm and the fact that he has the guts to set up this meeting (minor nobility and high nobility is major jump in hierarchy). Since ML is pretty good-looking, sister gets over the blood and says to go ahead and set the marriage even though terms aren't good -- marriage as a concubine instead of main wife. Our MC is chubby but not obese by this point.

    Blah blah more stuff, suddenly sister ditches the poor MC after marriage preparations already under way. This is a major no-no, especially with a big family like the groom's. Apparently she heard on the street while shopping that ML was actually ugly and chickened out (I guess she thought she saw the wrong guy as the groom). She left with some BS letter that she wanted to find her own way. MC is very angry of course, but he's the cold type and so his anger is calm too. You can bet people were scared. He thinks for a bit and asks the steward if marriage will work if he substitutes. Poor guy chokes.

    Anyway, MC's a decent guy and goes directly to ML's family to apologize. ML pressures him for a bit, testing him out, then puts forth the possibility that ML dish himself up for the marriage. Surprisingly, MC is pretty agreeable (this is kinda an insult to manhood, esp. to a first/eldest son which really surprises ML). MC manages to secure ML's promise of support if he needs it and marriage is on the way. MC sees it as a simple contract/transactional marriage while ML is very interested now.

    You get a lot of people attending the wedding. All people know is that the sister dropped out and so ML is now marrying the brother, the MC. This is already very revolutionary because men don't marry other men this openly (concubine is as high as a male/male marriage can get) with so much publicity and in such a high station -- ML actually insisted for this marriage in front of the emperor. ML and MC's looks really give people a shock. ML was supposed to be ugly in the rumors but who knew he was such a looker? And when MC's face is revealed (I forget if it was only to servants or to some other nobles as well) people were SUPER surprised. He was supposed to be this ugly fat guy but he's actually a good-looking youth, even if a little chubby with baby fat.

    Blah blah marriage ceremony stuff. There's a funny part in the wedding chamber when they exchange drinks. MC is dismissive and doesn't think it's a big deal since it's purely a business marriage, but ML persuades him to drink with him. This is actually part of the wedding ceremony, for the couple to exchange drinks lol. ML times the drinking so he matches with the MC. XDDD

    As it turns out, there's aphrodisiac in the wine. ML knew what he was getting into but MC didn't. After negotiating (black belly ML), they sleep on the same bed. MC can't restrain himself anymore and ML 'persuades' him into mutual grinding and giving each other a hand job. So the relationship is technically consummated already and on the wedding night too. LOL

    Then it's a bunch of slow relationship-building, negotiation, and ML expanding his business empire. This part is like Common Sense of a Duke's Daughter: modern to ancient revolutionizing but in believable ways -- first agricultural since MC begins as landowner, side project to introduce cotton, establishing and revamping the casinos and gambling, uh... anyway, you get the idea. MC (and by extension ML's Fu wangfu) gets filthy rich. What's nice is that ML lets him stand alone because he believes he can handle himself, only lending a hand here and there. Even though ML sticks to MC like glue and keeps trying to seduce him in true black belly fashion. XD

    There's also a bunch of politics in the background as the other princes scheme for the Emperor's position and MC's evil sisters/concubine mothers make their moves. ML and MC work together and weed out corruption wherever they go, usually derailing the other princes' operations. ML isn't interested in being emperor by the way, though he probably has the most claim to it because the seat was supposed to go to his father or grandfather? but it was delayed and given to current emperor instead... Summary to be continued.

    Cute scenes... well, at one point ML kills a bunch of bad people in their home and there are guts and blood everywhere. ML is worried at first because MC is sorta pale and he thinks that maybe he went over the line with the gore. Turns out MC was angry, just not for what he thought. MC was angry because there was blood and people dead in their home, now they have to move to a new spot. Not the gore factor. XDDD

    MC and ML are very cute lol. Eventually they become super well-known (despite the MC and ML being on the low-key, never showing up in public as themselves much side): ML as god of war and Fu wang (Fu prince) and MC as simply wangfei (princess). When people talk about 'the princess,' there is pretty much only one person they're referring to... ML never marries anyone else despite royal family sometimes shoving girls at him. When people see two good-looking guys together, both in a high position, usually dishing out punishment to the corrupt or stupid: holy cow, there's only one prince domineering enough to bring around his male waifu in public... must be that Fu wang and his wangfei. LOL

    Going to type up more in a while during my breaks lol. The story makes for dense reading but it's a lot easier on MTL than some others.
     
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    Wait, so did the MC married in as a wangfei or as a concubine?
     
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    scriptor 『Sigilmaster』 『Immortal Sage』

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    As a concubine, but that's as high as one guy marrying another guy can get. He might as well be wangfei, considering ML never marries anyone else. That's why people take to calling him wangfei. (pretty sure it's wangfei in pinyin at any rate, I'm going straight by MTL and it doesn't translate it to anything other than 'princess')
     
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    O.O thats a big sammury ....thaaank you!!! cookies!!!

    If the ml doesnt have kids who will inherit his position? o_O (i saw a another novel were a prince married another guy as a wangfei for reasons)
    what happened to the sister that run away?

    were they really male concumbines in ancient china? o_O *off to google i go :D*
     
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    Ah, My Wangfei is a man.
    They hasn't updated it for a while now
     
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    Big bro google and my friend the wiki said that same sex marriage in china used to be a thing in the past o.o (untill it wasnt :D)
     
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    scriptor 『Sigilmaster』 『Immortal Sage』

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    Yup. That is true. :3
     
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    scriptor 『Sigilmaster』 『Immortal Sage』

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    Unless I got my names mixed up, what happened was this:

    Sister is in cahoots with another one of the concubine mothers. They take part of the dowry (another no-no, the amount has to match up) and run off, stupidly thinking they were set for life. Instead, they got scammed when they tried to buy a house, spending around half their savings. You know something's wrong when the actual owner shows up and beats you off their property lol. Then they're out on the streets and living miserably until this one guy shows up. He's the head of the mystics department (yes you read that right, they're in charge of mystical/supernatural/fortunetelling stuff) for the emperor. He fixes up the girl, who is very beautiful, and introduces her to the emperor. She becomes the mysterious Yan Fei (SP?) who is the emperor's favorite.

    MC and ML only hear about her at first. First time seeing her, MC thought she looked pretty familiar and shares his suspicions with the ML. Then MC and ML's investigations chance upon the concubine mother. She spills pretty quickly. To top it off, MC gauges the new Yan Fei's character during one of the emperor's big everyone-is-invited banquets that he attends with ML. The new Yan Fei is barely wearing anything and performs a dance in front of the emperor. This clinches it for him: one of the sister's special lessons to nab a good marriage included dancing. Any other woman with some ability in the harem, one who'd actually clawed up the usual way wouldn't dance so shamelessly in front so many people -- it'd ruin their character/reputation in the long term.

    MC is content to leave her alone as long as she leaves him alone for the most part, but investigations and other stuff lead them to a standoff. One of the issues is a matter of imperial succession. The emperor (due to age and other things) had turned sterile. Sister can't get pregnant but she needs a child as leverage. She and the mystic department head get it on, she's impregnated. Even though they scheme and have her abort the child later, it's too late. The emperor's doctor that they tried to kill off had run off to Fu wangfu under MC and ML's shelter and he testifies later.

    Later, all this is revealed to the emperor who is super unhappy. He still lets off 'Yan Fei' because he's infatuated but the mystic department head is killed when everything is revealed and he tries to kill the emperor. 'Yan Fei's' reputation plummets to the bottom. In another palatial banquet that MC and ML attend mainly to make nice with the empress dowager (a good old lady who is fond of them and that they're fond of as well), MC goes off alone to take care of Yan Fei. He scares the bejeezus out of her with a few well-placed words: turns out she was one of the masterminds behind original!body's demise. Who in their right mind would be out in the snow at night? Partly due to mystic head's influence, she's more than usually susceptible to superstition and really goes crazy, screaming and yelling that MC had come back from the dead to kill her, etc. Since she's nuts and ruined the atmosphere of the banquet, she's sent to the rear palace/cold palace and confined for the rest of her life.
     
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    scriptor 『Sigilmaster』 『Immortal Sage』

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    Summary continued! I'll update with stuff past the page 22 I'm on in MTL raws once I finish lol:

    After the marriage, there's a lot of making business and development on the MC's part. At one point he opens a restaurant fast food chain lol. MC and ML ease into their relationship pretty quickly -- ML is very interested and MC is sort of interested despite himself (ML's black belly at work lol). It's not long before the get to the penetration stage. Then the rest of their marriage is simply the relationship growing deeper as they deal with the world around them (just like Assassin Farmer; why am I referencing so many het cnovels LOL).

    One of the princes isn't too bad, he's just kind of silly. He's not interested in being emperor because he knows he wouldn't make it. He stumbles into the gambling operation set up by MC and gets roped into managing parts of it for them. XD

    See above post for the political stuff happening with the emperor and the mysterious Yan Fei. General outline is that the princes are scheming for the emperor's seat, Yan Fei is also scheming for the seat as the Emperor's favorite. Yan Fei drops out. The princes scheme on. The emperor is killed by one of his concubines unbeknownst to anyone (poison) before he can deliver a formal edict for succession. A eunuch pulls out the written edict and the successor is naturally that concubine's son. MC and ML suspect this a lot -- emperor shouldn't have died so quickly and the successor was not someone the emperor had particularly favored. They investigate, they shelter the emperor's physician (a different one). In the final showdown, it's revealed that the concubine and 'eunuch' were childhood sweethearts. The prince was their son (emperor was already infertile by that point, I think). Concubine and eunuch die, the prince sorta gives up at this point. He's completely burned out from the fight for succession and would like nothing better than to leave everything behind by now. He and the other prince drop out of the public scene altogether into the quiet life.

    Hilariously, the silly prince who didn't want to be emperor is pulled in to take over. He still isn't married (finds harems and infighting troublesome LOL) but he's persuaded by our black belly ML to take over. One of his other concerns was lifespan: he thought all the scheming would make him live only to 50-60 when he wanted to live till 80 or more. Then our ML said that was what the medical department was for, to stuff him with nutrients and pills so he'd live that long or more. Poor silly prince falls for this of course... and has a headache over the work involved in being emperor even with our OP ML propping him up. XD

    He's still in the process of finding a main wife and filling his harem. His mother is a bit unwise and tries to set him against our ML but the silly prince has priorities straight -- no point alienating the person who put me here in the first place, not to mention he's still propping him up. The prince's judgment (aided by ML) in finding decent girls is pretty good. One of girls that should have been weeded out -- a super cruel nasty character despite her acting and looks -- is pleaded by the mother to stay in the harem, to the prince's displeasure. (need to read more to find out what happens here)

    One of side romances that I really liked was between the ML's Fu wangfu's steward (a bastard son by his father or uncle I think) and this really strong businesswoman that MC is acquainted with. The Fu steward had a sad love life. He was engaged with his first love and left for a while to do stuff; when he returned, she'd gotten married to another person. He let her go... only to find out later that this canoodling happened even while they were technically in the relationship -- she wanted to aim for a guy in a higher position. He lost faith in women after that and is considered and old-ish bachelor. The businesswoman is a spinster and unusually goes it alone despite all the men in the business beating her down and treating her unfairly until our MC gives her a chance. She's not a huge looker either and gets flak for being unmarried. They're both interested in each other but fumble a lot because each side is so unsure for various reasons. Then her mother sets her up with this other guy and he's kind of decent. They almost agree to a marriage of convenience until the uncle living at the Fu wangfu storms up and lectures the steward's head back on -- why're you letting another guy take your woman? Go on, chase!!! And the Fu steward does so in true black belly fashion (beginning to think black belly characteristics are a trademark of Fu wangfu LOL). Long story short, he gets the girl, everyone is happy except the jilted almost-groom. They get married and it's super cute because the Fu steward likes the girl for her character rather than looks and the girl is just happy that someone cares enough to love her despite her spinsterhood and 'unwomanliness.'

    Summary to be continued...
     
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    kyaaa thank you for the summaries!! <3

    One small question you said the ml's family sent girls his way....what happened to them (did anyone came into their house?) ...i can see both the mc and ml being jealous :D
     
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    the story sounds good and fun. I went to the site, only one chapter available. The summary thread leads me to the story. Hope they translate more this story too.
     
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    scriptor 『Sigilmaster』 『Immortal Sage』

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    Yeah, at some point after their marriage it was the empress' idea to send a bunch of girls to the ML, parading under the umbrella of 'it's high time you got a son to carry on the line.' MC was at home when they got sent over and he was not very happy lol. Good thing ML drops by and sends them all packing, right back to the palace. They have a cute discussion about jealousy, with ML kinda wanting MC to be jealous as a sign of affection. XD

    Yup, I'd like this story to be translated to. It's been a good read so far. This couple doesn't have needless misunderstandings and they tend to talk about their issues if any come up. Mostly it's them against the world as a united front. :3
     
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    awwww the power couple is so cute :3 ....does the ml ever gets jealous?
    it would be really cute if where ever they encounter danger the mc stands by while the ml deals with it :D

    about the mc's family buisiness ....does he develop it under the ml's name?
     
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    scriptor 『Sigilmaster』 『Immortal Sage』

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    LOL. Yes, ML gets jealous. At one point, the MC saves this one servant girl and she falls in love/develops major crush on him. He has no feelings for her whatsoever and makes it clear to her but she sorta persists. ML was jealous until MC puts him straight, saying he dislikes women like that (vexatious was the MTL word used I think). One of the cons of the story is that MC is slightly biased towards disliking women, but if you get to his backstory, you'll see why. Before he transmigrated, he was abused/taken advantage of by the women in his family (stepmother and stepsister I think). But author makes up for this by the cool businesswoman who's married to the steward -- here you see a girl who isn't bad -- and the empress dowager who's like a sweet grandmother.

    ML deals with all physical fights though that isn't to say he doesn't use his brain. He runs an espionage ring in addition to his soldiers, after all. Sometimes people think they can attack the MC and ML quickly puts them down -- sometimes fatally. He has no qualms about chopping someone up in the middle of the street. XD

    No, MC doesn't run his businesses under the ML's name. He doesn't even run it under his own name. He runs them under separate names but the ownership (people are very foggy about the owners because MC & ML make sure to keep it that way) is technically joint between MC & ML since they operate as a unit. But MC's the one who takes care of and develops the businesses.

    If you're talking about 'family business'... MC's family is a landowning family = no business. They subsist off renting property and collecting taxes and such on the farmers on their property. Business side is something that MC develops independently.
     
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    Did either the mc or the ml ever got injured or sick and the other had to take care of them?

    *gives cookies*
     
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    Are there any cute moments between MC and ML?