Reborn as a Top Imperial Exam Scholar's Golden Finger

My new story ideas have stalled since I got COVID. The start date for the next story is undecided. Upcoming story: "The Original Wife's Grandma's Comfortable Days" //////// [A rural farming and imperial-exam story about a married couple working hard together.] Years later, someone asked Luo Meiniang, who had come to the capital from the countryside, how she had managed to spot the potential of the future Grand Secretary among all the village ruffians. Luo Meiniang glanced at her husband in his first-rank court robe, then at the brightly glowing System display above his forehead. She was too embarrassed to take credit. When she first transmigrated as a farm girl in a remote corner of ancient China, then discovered that the System bound to her had disappeared, Luo Meiniang thought this was all life had in store for her. Who could have imagined that after more than a decade, she would make the Luo family prosperous with her own two hands, and suddenly see a System display above Zhang Yuhan, a village ruffian who had turned over a new leaf? Zhang Erlang was young, handsome, and eight feet tall. He had been a reckless troublemaker since childhood, loved fighting, and never let anyone take advantage of him. No one in or beyond the village dared shortchange him by so much as a hair. After he saved Luo Meiniang from a lightning strike, Zhang Yuhan found a chance to say to her, "Last month, I watched a play where they said that a life-saving kindness can never be repaid, so the only thing to do is offer yourself in marriage. What do you think?" Luo Meiniang: ... Reader advisory: 1. A rural life story about working hard and dealing with everyday family matters. No misery, no gratuitous angst. 2. The golden finger is a System, but it doesn't do much. The protagonists mainly succeed through hard work. "The Original Wife's Grandma's Comfortable Days" In her previous life, Gao Guihua's husband went to meet the King of Hell before she was thirty. She struggled through more than twenty years alone, then died of illness at fifty-two. But when she opened her eyes, she had become the original wife of the Marquis of Jing'an. The marquis had a snobbish mother, a concubine who was his cousin, and a beloved outside lover. His one virtue was that he came from a military family and had a dignified bearing. In both her lives, she had never seen a more handsome man. Faced with a household full of difficult people, Gao Guihua, who had been born in the countryside in her previous life and spent decades fighting wicked mothers-in-law, troublesome daughters-in-law, and grasping relatives, living like a warrior Buddha, was completely unafraid. What interested her more was her handsome, attractive lawful husband. After more than twenty years without a man, Gao Guihua was like a wolf, her eyes shining. Recently, Marquis Lu Zha of Jing'an had been confused. His plain wife of several years had suddenly shed her shyness, and whenever they were alone, she was so bold and passionate that it made his heart race... "All My Ex-Boyfriends Are Heartthrobs (Hollywood)" She was Hollywood's undisputed leading lady in the 1990s. She had unparalleled beauty and acting talent. Her ambition was to sleep with all the most electrically charged male heartthrobs in Hollywood. Men and women all over the world screamed for her and were captivated by her. After Chen Fu became a legend and reached the pinnacle of her acting career, all she wanted was to light a cigarette and calm down. Chen Fu was paralyzed in bed, able to move only her eyes. Every night when she closed them, she would transmigrate to 1990s Hollywood and become Eve Hall, a blue-eyed blonde from a wealthy family. At first, she thought she was having a lucid dream she could control. Since it was a dream, she wasn't going to hold back. She would get her heartthrobs, her dream of becoming a star, and an education and money, too! Her fiery soul, tempered by years of suffering from illness, wanted nothing but the freedom to do as it pleased. No one could stop her from moving forward! She was the hottest girl in Hollywood!!!!! When Chen Fu finally realized she had transmigrated, she remembered how shamelessly she had fought for roles and pursued heartthrobs. All she wanted to do was cover her face and dig a hole to bury herself in. "I'm a Spirit Medium in the World of Film and TV (Film, TV, and Classics Crossover)" Xu Pingzhen transmigrated into various worlds from film and television. In her first life, she was a lower-ranking nobleman in the Wei and Jin dynasties, diligently managing the family business. Then she suddenly discovered that her ancestors had studied under Xu Zhenjun in the Eastern Han dynasty, and that the family trade passed down through generations was actually that of a Daoist priest, the kind who could really exorcise demons and evil spirits. As a transmigrator with great skills and plenty of courage, Xu Pingzhen wondered if this was the path the heavens had chosen for her. From then on, the main plot in every world took an irreversible turn toward the supernatural. Xu Pingzhen: Haunted? Need a demon caught? Come to me! The protagonists of all those films and TV shows, who had originally only needed to work on their careers and fall in love, were all horrified. Jack from Titanic: Protective charms, levitation spells, warming spells... Just as I thought I was about to die, Chinese Daoist magic from across the ocean saved me. Zhu Yingtai from the 2007 version of The Butterfly Lovers: I thought I was just dressing as a man to go to school, but someone at the school can draw talismans and drive out evil spirits! Yi Xiaochuan and Xiang Shaolong: I was happy to meet a modern friend, but this person seems to... um... "I Own a Paper Effigy Shop [Republican Era]" In this life, after her opium-smoking parents passed away, Gao Shu lived with her lame grandfather and deaf-mute grandmother, running the family's paper effigy shop. Every day she made paper gods, candles, and tin foil. Her greatest pleasure was counting the silver dollars at home and seeing whether they could save enough money and grain before war broke out. Unexpectedly, one day a Maoshan Daoist who had been betrothed to her since childhood came to her home. After they married, Gao Shu discovered that her husband had been thrown out of the Maoshan Sect. He not only had a bitter feud with the sect, but spent every day sharpening his knives and scheming to use dark arts to get his revenge. Gao Shu was worried. Looking at this plot, wasn't she, the wife, destined to be cannon fodder...? Theme: A married couple working hand in hand to build a future.