After Saving My Doomed Husband, I Won at Life

[This story hasn't been going smoothly, and every time I get stuck, I feel so sorry to everyone following along. I really want to tell you to wait until it's complete before reading, but that also feels irresponsible. I'll do my best to keep updating, but I still recommend that new readers wait until it's finished. For now, I can only promise not to abandon it or end it badly. (A useless sigh.)] [Blurb] After being reborn, Wen Niansheng gave up on her transmigrate-into-a-book mission completely. Save the tyrant, take out the rebels, make a name for herself in history? She's just an ordinary medical student. She can't beat these ruthless, black-hearted bastards. She'd rather lie flat. Being a small-town doctor would be just fine. In the book, the Wen family had practiced medicine for generations. They were wealthy, but not enough to make people jealous, and kind, but not so kind that others could bully them. With her family protecting her and far from the power struggles of the imperial court, Wen Niansheng lived a carefree life. She opened a clinic and wrote medical books, making a name for herself in the capital with her modern medical skills. During this time, her family arranged a marriage for her. According to the book, Yan Chen was born into a poor family, full of patriotic zeal but with no way to serve his country. After repeatedly failing the imperial exams, he was deceived by the rebels and became a pawn in the struggle for imperial power, ultimately dying beneath a hail of blades. In short, he was a cannon fodder character, just like her. Since they were both cannon fodder, Wen Niansheng decided to save him. After they married, Yan Chen planned to join the future rebels. Wen Niansheng: "The situation's unclear right now. Let's set a small goal first: take the imperial exams and become an official. Get a feel for the situation before choosing sides." (You failed the exams three times in your previous life.) Yan Chen: "That makes sense." He came first in the exams, rose rapidly through the ranks, won the tyrant's favor, and became a thorn in the future rebels' side. Wen Niansheng: "?" No matter. She could still save him. "The drought is severe and people are suffering. Instead of fighting with people at court, why not leave the capital to provide disaster relief?" (The rebels are going to kill you. If you don't leave now, you're dead.) Yan Chen: "My lady is right." He provided disaster relief, saved the people, became famous throughout the land, won the people's praise, and became a thorn in the tyrant's side. Wen Niansheng: "..." She laid her cards on the table. "The tyrant is wary of you, and the court officials want you dead. There's only one choice left for you. We..." Yan Chen: "Should rebel!" Wen Niansheng: "?!" The young man raised an army and marched south, striking straight at the dynasty. He killed the tyrant, purged corrupt officials, and eventually claimed the throne. He said, "I used to want to be a virtuous minister and serve a wise ruler. Without your guidance, I might never have realized that I could be the wise ruler myself." Wen Niansheng: ... But what she had meant to say was, "Run!" Later, the young emperor rooted out corruption, reformed the bureaucracy, and abolished hereditary privilege. The people of the realm no longer lived under the thumb of the powerful, and finally had peaceful, happy lives. When the court historian asked what had kept him going all those years, Yan Chen replied, "Because my wife doesn't like this era. The society she dreams of is free, equal, just, and governed by the rule of law." "A girl who cannot adapt to a feudal society meets a passionate young man determined to change the times." "I have a vision beyond my time, and you have the blade to reshape it." [Blurb screenshotted on November 1, 2022] [Coming soon: The Treacherous Female Lead Is Reborn as Everyone's Dream Girl] Cheng Yunjiao transmigrated into a book. The System promised that if she killed the corrupt old emperor and lived until the new emperor ascended the throne, she could return to the modern world and enjoy a lifetime without worrying about food or clothing. To complete the mission, she followed the plot and disguised herself as a man to help the book's male lead take the throne, even becoming a treacherous villain in the eyes of the world. In the end, the ungrateful male lead gave her poisoned wine, and she died just before she could return to the modern world. When Cheng Yunjiao opened her eyes again, she had been reborn. She was still a companion student at the Imperial Academy. Her teacher was the Imperial Preceptor, her closest friend was a general, and her betrothed was the Crown Prince. The male lead who had killed her in her previous life, Shen Zhuo, was now just a sickly prince, powerless and at everyone's mercy. Thinking back on everything that had happened in her previous life, Cheng Yunjiao reflected bitterly: The System only told her to help the new emperor ascend the throne. It never said which new emperor! Her teacher, her closest friend, her betrothed: weren't any of them more suitable than Shen Zhuo? So she began persuading them all to rebel. Today, she urged her teacher, who devoted himself to scholarship, to contend for the position of chancellor. Tomorrow, she encouraged her friend, who commanded a great army, to march on the palace. The day after, she tricked her sweet, innocent Crown Prince into seizing power. As for Shen Zhuo, she sent him an assassination bundle every day. She absolutely couldn't let him survive to the end. Gradually, things started to go wrong. Her mentor, a man of impeccable literary integrity, bowed only once in his life: to beg the emperor to cancel her engagement to the Crown Prince. Her friend launched a rebellion on her wedding day. He didn't kill the emperor or seize the imperial seal, but instead stumbled drunkenly into her bedchamber. The sweet, innocent Crown Prince was even more outrageous. In the chaos, he stabbed his own father, handed her the imperial seal, and tried to flee with her to the ends of the earth. Cheng Yunjiao screamed inwardly: "You big shots, seize the throne! Ascend the throne! If none of you becomes emperor, how am I supposed to go home?" By now, she had no choice. She took the imperial seal and headed to the frontier, where she found Shen Zhuo. The prince of the past had become a commoner, but not even that could diminish his air of nobility. When she presented the imperial seal, he didn't even look at it. Instead, he stared intently at Cheng Yunjiao and smiled as if he had expected this all along. "Jiaojiao, you know I want more than the throne." Coming soon: A Most Auspicious Lot [Proud, spoiled Central Plains princess × free-spirited young heir to the grasslands] As the most honored of Great Qi's nine princesses, Jing Xiao had always thought she was unlucky. She always lost at gambling, it always rained when she went on outings, and the top scholar she set her heart on would get married the very next moment. When she was fifteen, Jing Xiao heard that the man she had secretly loved for years intended to take a princess as his wife. She thought her luck had finally turned. That very night, however, she dreamed that her future husband would set a fire and launch a coup on their wedding night, leading ten thousand rebels to surround the capital and forcing her entire family to kill themselves on the city walls. Jolted awake by the nightmare, Jing Xiao hurried to the Matchmaker Temple to draw a fortune stick. The stick fell from the container, and it was the most auspicious lot of all. Jing Xiao, who was used to bad luck, was stunned. Could dreams really be the opposite of reality? The golden-clad young man hidden behind the statue only smiled in silence. In his hand was the bamboo lot he had just swapped out of the container. In his previous life, Tuoba Feng defied his father's orders and tore up the marriage alliance agreement with his own hands, all to let the woman he loved find happiness with someone else. In the end, all he could do was watch as she leapt from the city wall and died in his arms, full of hatred. In this life, Tuoba Feng brought the marriage alliance agreement to the capital once more. One drizzly early spring day, he reined in his horse beneath a peach tree and spotted an old acquaintance kneeling devoutly before the Matchmaker Temple in the distance. Her long dress glowed like peach blossoms, and she was just as noble and untouched by hardship as before. His heart softened for a moment, and he quietly switched her fortune stick. After that, Tuoba Feng fought battle after battle. In a foreign land, he survived life-and-death ordeals, rising from a young heir to the throne of a king. He did it all so he could make Jing Xiao's most auspicious lot come true in a peaceful and prosperous age. Theme: A young man's passion burns forever.