After Becoming a Stepmother, I Got Busy Transforming the Whole Family

Wang Xiaoman, a PhD in agronomy, wakes up in ancient times as the wicked stepmother of five children. Her family is so poor they can barely afford to eat, and her husband, Wen Yan, is a down-and-out scholar who can barely lift a shoulder pole and is always talking about jumping into the river.

She rolls up her sleeves and clears the fields: composting, raising seedlings, planting sweet potatoes, and breeding earthworms to feed the chickens. She even turns a dilapidated temple into a “rural experimental station.”

At night, she tugs Wen Yan by the ear and makes him memorize the Four Books. She trades chili peppers for paper and brushes, and uses Zhuangyuanhong wine to spur him on to take the imperial exams.

Wen Yan goes from a lazy nobody to a study machine, passing the xiucai and juren exams before claiming the top spot at the imperial palace