A Woman in a Man’s Body: At First, I Just Wanted to Make Money

Reborn as a baby, coming-of-age story, play the pig to eat the tiger, career-focused.

The pacing may be a little slow at first, but I'm already working on it. Everyone is warmly welcome to come and read!

Li Yan transmigrates with the most powerful support System, only to be reborn as a newborn boy in a poor farming family in an alternate ancient era, a family so destitute they can barely feed themselves! The System? It shuts down as soon as she arrives, due to insufficient energy. Gender? Male! Circumstances? Her grandparents favor her six-year-old uncle, her parents are meek and honest, and her three older brothers are gaunt with hunger. As the “fourth son of the Li family,” her childhood means nothing but endless hunger and labor.

After six grueling years, just as Li Si is despairing and about to end this wretched life, a long-missed voice rings out in her mind! [The “Most Powerful Support System” has finally finished charging and is back online!] To survive, improve her life, and change her fate, Li Yan (Li Silang) starts earning money with the System's help, beginning with a street stall.

But one harsh reality after another soon follows. A single look of disdain from the powerful can easily destroy an ordinary person's dignity and livelihood. Li Yan finally understands that in this world, a merchant's wealth is little more than a rootless duckweed. Real power and influence are held only by scholars and the elite.

Clenching his fists and wiping away his tears, Li Silang makes his choice: study! Take the imperial exams! Claim power! He will embark on the thorny road to the heights of power. From a village schoolboy to the imperial palace, from a bullied farmer's son to the sovereign who commands the realm, he will overturn this decaying order step by step and usher in an era belonging to “him,” Li Yan (Yan)!!