Wrongly Married to a Scholar After the Imperial Exams

After transmigrating to ancient times, Ming Zhi runs her family's little restaurant, and business is booming.

She chose a husband for herself: the county's burliest, quietest constable, with no parents and no family to feed but himself.

Who could have guessed that the neighbors would be getting married on the same day? One careless mix-up with the bridal sedan, and she was delivered to the home of the county's famously unlucky child prodigy.

The little prodigy became a licentiate at thirteen and passed the provincial examination at fourteen. At fifteen, health problems made him fail the provincial examination three times in a row, turning him into the county's very own Zhong Yong, a prodigy who had squandered his talent. He had a strict father, a sickly mother, a wastrel younger brother, a younger sister dating before her time, and a whole crowd of country relatives who took advantage of the family and never left.

Ming Zhi: The sky is falling.

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Shen Xian recognized characters at two, wrote poetry at three, became a licentiate at thirteen, and passed the provincial examination at fifteen. After that, his life went steadily downhill.

He failed the provincial examination three times in a row, and eventually even reading became difficult.

On their wedding night, he and the county's famous restaurant beauty stared at each other in bewilderment. Hearing the screams from next door, he rubbed his head with difficulty and had no choice but to go along with the mistake.

He thought this was how his life would be from then on, but unexpectedly, he picked up his brush again.

From provincial graduate to top scholar, from a low-ranking ninth-grade official to the first-rank chief councilor-

Asked the secret to his success, he answered frankly: "I have a virtuous wife at home."

Ming Zhi, busy cooking: What was that? Did I put in too much salt? Don't try to fool me.

Theme: Wherever your heart finds peace is home.