Reborn: A Life of Honor and Favor

[Upcoming stories: The Tragic Supporting Female Character Awakens and A Farmer's Son's Road to the Imperial Exams. Please add them to your collection! Visit the author's profile to find them.]

Story synopsis:

In her previous life, Ye Ruoyao drifted through life in a daze, only to be poisoned to death by an undeserved calamity.

In this life, she fights back starting at a turning point in her fate, only to accidentally attract the new emperor from her previous life. They say he is impotent, cold, and merciless.

Ye Ruoyao: I don't want to get close to him, but somehow we keep running into each other. I've heard he's petty. Never mind, I might as well try to please him and get on his good side.

Mu Lan: This girl likes me so much. I don't like her all that much, but I'll spoil her anyway.

The male lead is gruff but tenderhearted, and he's the one who falls first.

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Upcoming Story 1: The Tragic Supporting Female Character Awakens

As a tragic supporting female character, Li Qingyuan knows what will happen.

Her childhood sweetheart of a cousin will bring his beloved, the girl of his dreams, and break off their engagement on their wedding day.

The charming top scorer will turn cold and heartless when he realizes he mistook her for his benefactor, just as she's trying to convince her father to approve their marriage.

The marquis's son will tell her she's only a substitute when she confesses her love, then blind her.

The scheming merchant will make her bleed to death for the sake of a treasure after she gets close to him again.

And she can only act according to the book.

So, can't she just speed things up?

Li Qingyuan's eyes light up when she sees the treasure before her, which can teleport her anywhere in an instant.

So in the morning, in City A, she sweet-talks her childhood sweetheart of a cousin: "Cousin, try the porridge I made." She plays the sweet and charming fiancee.

At noon, in City B, she embroiders for the top scorer and gazes at him tenderly. "Do you like it?" She's a shy young lady.

In the afternoon, she meets the marquis's son in City C, imitating his beloved in every way and playing a lonely, helpless girl.

And she doesn't stop at night. She rushes to City D, where the merchant is just starting out, and shows off her hairpins and jewelry. Now she's a haughty young lady from a prominent family.

At last, it's time for the broken engagement, the rejection, the tears that blind her, and the bleeding.

All four men arrive in City A at the same time.

Her hot-blooded childhood sweetheart, eyes red: "My fiancee was a little bossy, but she was so adorable. Too bad she doesn't want me anymore."

The charming and amorous top scorer, looking haggard: "My girl was so shy, but she doesn't like me anymore."

The powerful marquis, eyes dim: "My girl is so fragile she can't even take care of herself. Now there's something wrong with her eyes, and I don't know what to do."

The shrewd merchant, gravely ill: "My girl is so naive I have to look after her. Now I don't even know where she's gone."

But one day, they all see Li Qingyuan flying a kite atop a tall building.

All four turn red-eyed and call out at once: "Little Sister Yuan!"

Qing'er

Xiao Yuan

Yuan'er

Hearing their voices overlap, they freeze. Then they glare at one another with hostility.

A wife-chasing funeral procession and a battlefield of rivals.

Upcoming Story 2: A Farmer's Son's Road to the Imperial Exams

Xu Wen transmigrates into the body of a farmer's son in the Great Xia Dynasty.

His family is huge: his grandparents, parents, second and third uncles and their families, plus several younger brothers and sisters, all packed into one big house.

They're not wealthy, but they're fairly comfortable.

After helping his family weed and sow the fields until his back aches, six-year-old Xu Wen realizes he wants to take the imperial exams!

So he starts by secretly learning from the teacher next door, then seeks a tutor, attends an academy, passes the provincial exams...

And takes one step after another along the road to the imperial exams.

Xu Sanmei is reborn. In her previous life, her family scrimped and saved to put her older male cousin through school, but he was a gambling addict and a womanizer. He offended a powerful person and left the entire family destitute and alone.

This time, she absolutely won't let her cousin waste the family's money or offend powerful people again!

Watching this ambitious cousin, she scoffs at his pretentious act.

Watching him pass the entrance exam for the lowest degree, she stubbornly insists, with a candied hawthorn skewer her cousin bought her in her mouth, that this is as far as he'll get.

Watching him become a licentiate, she looks at the gifts he's received from others in confusion. Was her dream false?

Watching him pass the provincial and metropolitan exams, she gazes at him with shining eyes. My cousin really is a star of literature descended from heaven!

When the villagers hear that the Xu family's grandson is going to study, they secretly laugh. How could a farmhand become a scholar? The family could spend their money on something useful.

His grandparents and uncles all say in unison, "If our boy wants to study, then study he will."

The others scoff: Delusional. Just wait until they see the day this family falls into ruin.

But as they watch Xu Wen progress step by step from the lowest degree to the jinshi degree, they are first dumbfounded, then calmly accept it. They finally understand: the Xu family's grandson really is a star of literature descended from heaven.

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