The Chief Minister's Hunter Husband (Imperial Exams)

[Regular daily updates] My profile has a completed novel with a similar premise, Accompanying My Husband in Exile to Qiongzhou. Please add it to your collection. Here's the blurb:

Chu Ming'an has just graduated from university when he transmigrates into the body of another Chu Ming'an, who drowned himself in Aobei Village in the Great Wen Dynasty. Why did he drown himself? He'd spent years failing the xiucai examinations.

Chu Ming'an: Fine. I'll live off my husband, then.

Rumor has it that Sheng Jing is a hunter despite being a ger, and is ferocious and immensely strong. Anyone who marries him is doomed. Chu Ming'an makes up his mind: he'll live off Sheng Jing!

But... there's no such thing as a free meal. The Sheng family is being squeezed and bullied by the county yamen runners.

Chu Ming'an grits his teeth. He'll keep taking the imperial examinations! Once he becomes a xiucai and then a juren, his family will be safe and reunited, and he and his husband can live in peace.

Later, people say that the road to the highest office for Chu Ming'an, the era's chief grand secretary, began with living off his husband...

He was once sent to the southwest, where he eliminated bandits, pacified the tribes, and introduced all kinds of new things, filling the granaries of the Great Wen Dynasty.

He once went to the northwest and governed it so well that the northern tribes no longer dared to invade. His husband was even exceptionally appointed as a general.

He also once served as the emperor's envoy, opening a land trade route that brought countless treasures into Great Wen.

He was a loyal minister trusted by the emperor and an imperial tutor. He ushered in a century-long golden age for the Great Wen Dynasty.

However, this revered scholar of the Great Wen Dynasty, remembered for generations, was also notorious for being henpecked. Rumor had it Chu Ming'an feared his husband, a general who had once been a hunter, and so he had only one husband and fathered just one child.

Sheng Jing: ...

Chu Ming'an: Heh. You people who aren't married into your spouse's family could never understand the joys of living off your husband! My dear, come on, let's go home for dinner--

* Imperial examinations + court politics + infrastructure development

* Younger, scheming puppy-like top X cool, husbandly bottom

* The top spoils the bottom, and the bottom spoils the top! The bottom changes quite a bit over the course of the story~

* A little mpreg. The top's golden finger is his brain (?)

Scheduled for September 19, 2025

Theme: Hard work pays off