The year Zhao Yue turned eighteen marked her eighth year since she transmigrated.
She was also old enough to marry. A matchmaker came calling to say she should become the concubine of an old geezer.
Zhao Yue boldly devised a plan and married a scholar instead.
But her mother-in-law turned out to be devoted to her career, determined to make Zhao Yue a matchmaker too and train her as a successor!
Zhao Yue: ???
In her previous life, she was a divorce lawyer! She encouraged people to split up, not get together. Wasn't this the exact opposite of her old job?
Lin Zhen was a well-known scholar in Darong Village.
He passed the provincial-level examination at fifteen, and everyone said he had a bright future ahead of him.
But he failed the provincial examination twice in a row.
The two defeats crushed his youthful ambition, and he gave up on the civil service exams.
One day, he took a wife who had a soft spot for scholars, preferably one who had passed the metropolitan examination and could secure thirty mu of official farmland for her.
From then on, he devoted himself to the exams so he could earn that farmland for his wife!
Reader's Guide:
Everyday family life and the ups and downs of matchmaking
The lively rhythms of village life, raising chickens and running wedding banquets
A slow pace, with a couple who marry first and fall in love later
Many creative liberties...
Theme: Be ambitious and strive to improve.
