I Hear You Want to Steal My Throne

Gu Yanzhang was originally a poor scholar. After placing first in the imperial examinations, he was chosen as a husband for the princess right after the results were announced.

He couldn't bear to give up the prestige of becoming a royal son-in-law, but he also couldn't let go of his beautiful wife back in the countryside.

So he wrote home and told his wife that he hadn't passed the exams and would have to study in the capital for three years. Housing in the capital was too expensive, he said, so she could only come live in a village on the outskirts for now.

He called it a village, but it was really a mistress's quarters.

That way, he could enjoy both the wealth and glory of becoming the princess's husband and the company of a stunning beauty.

His original wife was simple and innocent, and seemed not to have noticed her husband's betrayal. She obediently waited in a dilapidated cottage for him to finish his studies and return.

Gu Yanzhang was smug about his wife's loyalty, convinced his lies would never be exposed.

He'd planned to wait until he grew tired of her, then send a letter of divorce and dispatch his country wife back home...

Until the new emperor ascended the throne. He accompanied the princess to pay his respects at court, only to see that the person seated on the dragon throne was none other than his long-missing, long-suffering wife!

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Sheng Yin has two secrets:

First, she is the princess of the realm, born to a deposed consort. After being switched at birth, she was abandoned in a remote town.

Second, she knows she's living inside a book, and that many people have transmigrated into this world, all hoping to seize the throne.

These transmigrators all claim to be the male lead, each equipped with a System and blessed by fate.

And she happens to be able to hear what these male leads are thinking.

At first, when she heard the male leads talking with their Systems, she thought she was imagining things.

Then she discovered just how stupid they were. The System practically shoved recipes in their faces, and they still couldn't smelt iron or make penicillin.

Sheng Yin was furious. What kind of ridiculous blessing of fate did idiots like them have? She might as well take the throne herself!

P.S.:

1. The female lead is a genuine person from ancient times, but she's a genius. She understands anything the System teaches her after hearing it once.

She's a genius auditing student who can't stand the privileged students with guaranteed admissions, and ends up taking them all down.

2. The heroine is not a virgin, but all the male characters are virgins when they start a relationship with her.

3. This is a fictional setting, a fictional setting, a fictional setting.

Premise: Let the capable rise to the top