(This is a fictional dynasty, so please don’t read too much into it.) A corporate executive somehow had her soul snatched by mistake. When she opened her eyes, she had become an old woman. Becoming a mother without the pain of childbirth was one thing, but she’d somehow skipped straight to being a grandmother.
Luckily, there was another unlucky soul in the same boat. That poor fellow even had two doctorates, one in archaeology and one in history. Wasn’t he practically born for the imperial exams?
He has to take them! Absolutely!
Since her bargain-bin sons and daughters-in-law were fairly obedient, she’d take them along for the ride!
But that unlucky fellow was far too capable. He even earned her a first-rank noblewoman’s title!