After Breaking Off the Engagement, She Thrived

[Alternate History, No Pocket Dimension, No System, Famine Years, Farming, Imperial Examinations]

Xu Yue has been jilted. At thirteen, she was betrothed to Cheng Jinpeng, the eldest son of the Cheng family. Ever since the engagement, she has served his parents and taken on all the Cheng family's farmwork and housework, all so Cheng Jinpeng could focus on his studies and pass the examinations.

Cheng Jinpeng does not disappoint. He passes the first imperial examination he takes and becomes a licentiate. Xu Yue thinks her hardships are finally over and her good days have begun, but instead she gets dumped.

“Yue'er, you know the Li family in town has money and influence. If I don't agree to become their son-in-law, my future in the imperial examinations will be over.”

“Yue'er, I know how kind you are. Once I pass the palace examination and become an official, I'll take you as my concubine…”

Unable to bear Cheng Jinpeng's sudden change of heart, and with the villagers pointing fingers at her, Xu Yue throws herself into the river in a fit of anger.

After she is pulled out, she has become a different Xu Yue from another world.

You want to break off the engagement? Fine. Pay me compensation for the years of my youth.

You want to gossip about me? Your scandals are worse than mine.

Poor? Then I'll make money.

You like me? You're not worthy.

They scheme to marry me off to a fool? Fine, I'll marry him!

I pick up an old man who turns out to be a miracle-working doctor.

My husband turns out to be a genius.

What? My father has an unusual background…? Here comes another round of leveling up and beating the odds…