The Fortunate Young Madam

[I've started updating My Exile Made Me a Tycoon! Upcoming: Lady Ling Luo / This Fairy Is Anything But Proper. See my profile for the blurbs.]

Lin Rong, daughter of a scholar, married Lu Chengcai, the only son of the owner of the Laifu Inn, to pay for her father's medical treatment.

On their wedding night, the young rascal, already notorious among the neighbors for his dissolute ways, tried to tell Lin Rong in flowery language that he already loved someone else: his childhood sweetheart next door, who had been taken as a concubine by her cousin.

Lin Rong, a transmigrator from the apocalypse and an obscure but skilled beast tamer, smiled and without another word helpfully undid his clothes, then gave the dumbfounded Lu Chengcai a beating. "You're a country bumpkin who can't decide whether to farm or do business. Why are you going on about some unattainable true love? Get your head out of the clouds!"

Lu Chengcai tearfully complained to his parents, but after his little wife came into the family, the half-dead Laifu Inn became the most popular inn among scholars within ten miles of the Yingzhou Prefectural School.

Lu's parents were so delighted by the family's overflowing profits that they could barely stop grinning. As for their son? "Your wife is right. A farm boy won't amount to anything unless he's disciplined!"

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A few years later, Lu Chengcai was washing his daughter's cloth diapers in the backyard.

His childhood sweetheart, Ping Ting, showed up after failing at household intrigue and being sent back to her parents' home. She spoke hesitantly, as if holding back: "Brother Chengcai, I can never forget that night back then, under the flowers and moonlight, when you and I..."

At that moment, Lin Rong came to the doorway, holding their child and looking intrigued.

+ Lu Chengcai immediately dropped to his knees. "I didn't! I swear I didn't do anything! Honey, look at my sincere eyes! Mom, Dad, explain it to her! Weren't you hiding nearby back then, laughing at how clueless I was?"

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Lu's parents: ...

The childhood sweetheart: ...

Reading Guide:

1. A sweet, feel-good romance with devoted leads!

2. Updates daily, usually around 9 p.m.

--- Blurb for My Exile Made Me a Tycoon ---

Miao Wan only realized she had transmigrated into a palace-intrigue novel after she was already on the road to exile with her husband's family.

Of course, palace intrigue had nothing to do with her.

She was the original wife, a cannon-fodder character whom the heroine's childhood friend and cousin, Qiao Ruichen, had married at his parents' behest.

The Qiao family was caught up in palace intrigue, framed, and tragically sentenced to exile.

The original wife couldn't stand the harsh, cold climate of the northwest. She miscarried, fell ill, and died, eventually appearing in the novel's epilogue as a grave.

Miao Wan looked at her mother-in-law, shivering as she embroidered in a dilapidated house to support the family, and her sister-in-law, whose hands were swollen like radishes from washing vegetables. She rubbed her rounded belly and sighed.

Oh well, since she was here, she might as well make the best of it. First, a small goal: avoid ending up in a grave and make a tiny fortune.

As for being unable to bear the northwest cold and miscarrying?

She was a born-and-raised northwest girl, a pig-farming champion famous far and wide. She could raise over a thousand pigs with no trouble. How could she fail to raise a baby?

Not a chance.

Reading Guide:

1. An alternate setting with a bit of everything. The male lead and the original heroine have no romantic entanglement. The heroine is already pregnant when she transmigrates.

2. Set in the northwest from the start, with feel-good wish fulfillment and no frustrating setbacks.

3. The main plot is raising kids and making money. Little romance, and the male lead is just a supporting tool.

Theme: Persistence and conviction can change your life