[Cultivation + reincarnation and stat allocation + ancient setting + genius]
In her first life, Du Zhimiao was born into a farming family where the elders favored boys over girls. She married into a merchant family at the very bottom of the ladder and eventually rose to become a business magnate.
In her second life, Du Zhimiao was born into the family of a prefect. Her family still favored boys over girls, so she disguised herself as a man, sat the imperial examinations, and made the honor roll.
Convinced that her experience from two lifetimes and her own intelligence guaranteed her the top score, she never expected a twelve-year-old boy to take the title of top scholar at the palace exam. She watched him laugh as he strode out the door, then get carried off by an immortal and soar into the clouds.
Du Zhimiao was so stunned she couldn't get over it for thirty thousand years. Only then did she learn that there was always someone better, and something beyond the heavens. Damn it, there was even a whole cultivation world out there!
Why bother studying, then? She'd cultivate!
From then on, the cultivation world gained an unparalleled genius who grew stronger with every lifetime. That genius was named Du Zhimiao in every life.
