[Historical Fantasy] [Native Female Lead] [Growth-Focused] [Everyone's Favorite]
Zhao Wantang, the daughter of a county deputy, had always been proud and ambitious, determined to outshine everyone around her. Hoping to marry into a powerful family, she traveled a great distance to the capital to stay with a distant relative, becoming a dependent cousin in the Marquis of Anning's household.
On the way to the capital, a handsome, heavenly-looking man suddenly appeared. He was supposedly the Worthy Minister System, and she was his bound Host.
Since women couldn't take the imperial exams and become officials, she had planned to refuse. But the other party said he could select the capital's finest young men for her to choose from, and even offered her magical beauty pills.
For the sake of becoming beautiful and finding a good husband, she bound herself to the Worthy Minister System without hesitation.
“What? A technique for fertilizing farmland?”
“You want a young lady like me to go muck about in muddy fields with dung and urine?”
Cheng Huaixu, the legitimate eldest son of the Marquis of Anning's household, had always looked down on the beautiful, vulgar, vain, and penniless cousin from the second branch of the family.
Compared with his refined, graceful, gentle, and kind cousin Chuxue, she was like night and day.
Yet gradually, he discovered that many ordinary people in the capital praised her compassionate heart, that revered scholars wished they could take her on as their final disciple, and that every man more accomplished than him was enamored with her.
Zhao Wantang once wanted to marry into a powerful marquis's household. But later, she realized men couldn't be relied upon. Better to become powerful herself.
