After I Transmigrated Into a Book, I Became the Exam-Flunking Guy’s Substitute Bride

Shen Jingshu transmigrates into the body of a neglected daughter in a minor official’s family in ancient times. Whether she is a concubine-born daughter or the youngest legitimate daughter, the original girl was chosen for the family’s interests to take her sister’s place and marry Gu Zhao, a scholar said to have “failed the exams time and again” with no bright future ahead. The heroine calmly accepts reality and discovers that Gu Zhao is not stupid; he has an exam-related difficulty he finds hard to talk about. Using modern knowledge and methods, she sets out to help him overcome it. At the same time, she uses her own intelligence and abilities to win people over, including a band of unusual mountain bandits, and build up her strength. Together, they go from a remote mountain village to the prefectural city, then on to the capital. Along the way, they face-slap relatives, rivals in love, and villains who look down on them. With the heroine’s help, the hero finally shines, while she steadily rises in status. They weather one hardship after another together, and their feelings grow stronger. In the end, the hero succeeds in the imperial examinations and fulfills his ambitions, while the heroine earns everyone’s respect and finds a career and place of her own. Together, they reach the top.