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My next books are The Miserable Supporting Actress Awakens and A Farmer's Son's Road to the Imperial Exams. Please add them to your reading list~
Blurb: After waking up one day, Ruan Mian discovers that she's the beautiful, crude, brainless supporting actress in a Mary Sue novel.
The male lead is her current fiance, who looks down on her and left for two years. When her reputation is in tatters, he says coolly and politely, "Miss, you are not the one I love. Please break off the engagement."
The second male lead is a future high-ranking official she supported, who despises her for being crude. "Stop pursuing me. You can consider this money repayment."
The third male lead is a young marquis who fell in love with her at first sight, but eventually saw through her true nature. "You have nothing but your looks. You're dull and stupid."
In the story, she gets tangled up with the male lead and the other men, but all of them eventually fade into the background beside the heroine. Her family is destroyed and she loses everything. All she can say is, "Sorry, I'm out. I'm not playing along."
She doesn't want the fiance who left for two years. She won't support the talented scholar who despises her for being crude. And who cares about the marquis who fell in love with her at first sight?
All she wants is to enjoy being the prime minister's daughter.
But then, one day, they all start pursuing her.
Her fiance, the male lead who left for two years, says, "Since we're engaged, we should get married."
The handsome scholar she supported says, "Your kindness is so great that I can only repay you by offering myself."
The marquis who admires her says, "Our families are well matched. We should unite through marriage."
Ruan Mian: ...
Unfortunately for them, the powerful villain has also been secretly trying to steal her away. Hearing what they said, he scoffs. "What wishful thinking!"
Please add my upcoming books The Miserable Supporting Actress Awakens and A Farmer's Son's Road to the Imperial Exams to your reading list.
Blurb 1: The Miserable Supporting Actress Awakens
As a miserable supporting actress, Li Qingyuan knows that:
Her childhood sweetheart, her cousin, will call off their engagement on their wedding day, bringing along his beloved white moonlight.
The flirtatious top scholar will realize he mistook someone else for his benefactor while she's trying to win her father's approval, then turn on her without mercy.
The young marquis will call her nothing but a substitute when she's in love with him, then blind her.
The scheming merchant will make her bleed to death for the sake of treasure after she opens her heart to him once again.
And she's supposed to follow the story's script.
Couldn't she make it happen sooner?
Seeing the treasure before her that could teleport her instantly, Li Qingyuan's eyes lit up.
So in the morning, she was in City A, speaking sweetly to her childhood sweetheart and cousin: "Cousin, try the porridge I made." She was his sweet, charming fiancee.
At noon, she was in City B, embroidering for the top scholar and asking affectionately, "Do you like it?" She was a shy young girl.
In the afternoon, she met the young marquis in City C, imitating his beloved in every way and playing a lonely, helpless orphan.
She still wasn't done that evening. She went to the merchant, who was just starting out in City D, and flaunted her hairpins. Now she was a haughty young lady from a prominent family.
At last, it was time for the broken engagement, the abandonment, the blinding, and the bloodshed.
All four men arrived in City A at the same time.
Her hot-blooded childhood sweetheart, eyes red, said, "My fiancee was a little spoiled, but she was so cute. What a shame she doesn't want me anymore."
The flirtatious top scholar, looking utterly haggard, said, "My girl was so shy, but she doesn't like me anymore."
The powerful marquis, his gaze dim, said, "My girl was too delicate to take care of herself. Now there's something wrong with her eyes, and I don't know what to do."
The calculating merchant, gravely ill, said, "My girl was so naive that I had to look after her. Now I don't even know where she's gone."
Then one day, they saw Li Qingyuan flying a kite on the roof of a high-rise, utterly carefree.
All four of them cried out at once, their eyes red:
"Little Sister Yuan,"
"Qing'er,"
"Xiao Yuan,"
"Yuan'er."
Hearing them speak in unison, they froze, then glared at one another with hostility.
A groveling romance and a love-rival showdown.
Blurb 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 uncle, third uncle's family, and several younger siblings all live crammed together in one large house.
They aren't rich, but they're comfortably well off.
After helping the family weed and sow seeds until his back ached, six-year-old Xu Wen had an epiphany: he would take the imperial exams!
So, starting with secretly learning from the teacher next door, he searches for a tutor, attends an academy, passes the provincial exams...
And step by step, he makes his way toward a career through the imperial examinations.
Xu Sanmei is reborn. In her previous life, her family scrimped and saved to support her older cousin's studies, only for him to become a gambling, womanizing wastrel. He offended a powerful person and left the entire family destitute and alone.
In this life, she absolutely won't let her cousin waste the family fortune or offend another powerful person!
She watches her cousin strive to better himself and scoffs, thinking he's just putting on an act.
When he passes the children's exam, she eats the candied hawthorn he bought her and insists, "This is as far as you'll get in this life."
When he passes the lower-level provincial exam, she accepts gifts from other people and wonders if her dream was wrong.
When he passes the higher-level provincial exam and the palace exam, she stares at him with shining eyes. My cousin really is Wenquxing descended to earth!
When the villagers hear the Xu family grandson is going to study, they laugh to themselves. How could a family of dirt farmers produce a scholar? What a waste of money.
His grandparents, father, and uncles all say in unison, "Our boy can study as much as he wants."
The others scoff. "Dream on. Just wait until they end up destitute."
But when they watch Xu Wen progress from passing the children's exam to becoming a presented scholar, they first gape in disbelief, then take it in stride. They've realized the Xu grandson really is Wenquxing descended to earth.
Theme: Only hard work can help you escape adversity