In his previous life, when Li Ye first came across short videos, he had seen videos of Flower Kingdom wives living in the West. In the daily lives they filmed, without exception, they were cooking for their foreign husbands.
And cooking for their foreign husbands' entire families at that—conquering their husbands' stomachs with Flower Kingdom cuisine, conquering their mothers-in-law's stomachs, conquering their fathers-in-law's stomachs.
Back then, Li Ye had complained to his friends that the Flower Kingdom's virtues of being a good wife and wise mother were becoming rarer and rarer locally, while the Three Obediences and Four Virtues were flourishing overseas instead. Did that count as another kind of cultural export?
After all, Flower Kingdom women had used their virtues of being good wives and wise mothers to keep men firmly in their grasp for thousands of years.
Even in places where "women weren't allowed at the table," if the mother doing the cooking was unhappy and let out an angry roar, the whole family would be scared stiff.
Now they were going abroad and using that same move to keep foreign husbands in line. How was that not cultural export?
Then Li Ye's brothers plied him with alcohol all night, and he nearly puked up bile.
Cultural export my ass!
His brothers held Li Ye's head down and reasoned with him: since the ancient tribal era, men had only had a few responsibilities—producing supplies, protecting the tribe, and going out to pillage.
Protecting the tribe was easy to understand: resisting outside enemies and keeping them from harming the people of one's own tribe. Going out to pillage, on the other hand, meant going to other tribes to seize their food, their slaves, and their beautiful women.
That hidden way of thinking had not actually disappeared over thousands of