Blurb:
After reading a novel, Zhao Zhi unexpectedly transmigrated from the real world into the book.
In the novel's world, he was Zhao Zhiyue, the third prince of the Xia Dynasty. His birth mother, Consort Rao, was promoted from Noble Consort to Empress, and Zhao Zhiyue smoothly overtook the other princes, placing himself just one step away from becoming the crown prince.
However, he was only a supporting male character in a romance novel, and one doomed to chase after his love until she came to regret it, only to fail miserably to win her over.
At the end of the story, Zhao Zhiyue, consumed by regret, turned evil for love and followed the old clichéd path of framing the male lead in an attempt to steal the female lead away. In the end, the protagonists' group successfully killed him instead.
After transmigrating into the book, Zhao Zhiyue naturally had no intention of following the original plot. What could be better than lying flat when it came to love? Why give up his promising future as a crown prince-in-waiting to become a face-slapping tool character?
When the transmigrated Zhao Zhiyue reached the point where he had already given up on the female lead and tried to choose the male lead, he was completely unmoved. He turned to the eunuch beside him and ordered, "Bring me ten sets of local county gazetteers. I have to squeeze out a script this year."
Before transmigrating into the book, Zhao Zhiyue had been a screenwriter by profession. His deadline was only half a month away, but fortunately, his document had already reached an astonishing five hundred thousand words. It included five hundred thousand words of research materials, along with a hundred thousand words of draft, of which he had deleted seventy thousand.
The characters were undecided, the plot unclear, the main story nowhere in sight, and the writing fee still waiting to be claimed. The heaven-chosen wage slave who had transmigrated here declared: Great, my deadline has been extended.
After all, what was the fun in following the original plot step by step, compared with living off the fat of the land, doing nothing, slacking off, and putting off his draft?
Zhao Zhiyue knew the conventions of scripts inside out. He was determined never to become a tool character, and would keep his strong hand hidden until he ascended the throne. He would refuse to give in and say, "I knew it was worth it."
If he ever transmigrated back one day, all this would still make excellent material. Maybe he could even get his deadline extended.
After Zhao Wenyue's tireless efforts, his research materials finally exceeded eight hundred thousand words (and he still hadn't written a single word of the actual story).
One day, as usual, he fretted over his script and went out again to gather material.
This time, he was researching ancient water conservancy. The person leading the construction and supervision was a woman, and she was also an expert in water administration.
Zhao Wenyue's eyes lit up, and inspiration struck at once: A story about a heroine building a career. There it is.
He had originally only wanted to calmly take a leisurely tour through a world of wealth and splendor, silently repeating that nothing had anything to do with him. But it turned out that not everyone could stand by and watch the world's hardships and injustices with indifference. Who would have thought that, once she entered the mortal world, she would leave with attachments in her heart?
"She taught me to develop water conservancy, value farming and sericulture, promote farming and weaving, reform the marketplace, speak up for the people, strive upward, and never stop learning."
A science and engineering top student who excels at competing against herself * a humanities student who lies flat and keeps putting off her work. Choosing to favor one subject is a rational decision, but favoring someone is not.
Reader's Guide:
1. The story is told from the male lead's perspective, while the female lead's career takes up a significant portion of the story.
2. There is no romantic storyline with the original book's female lead. Our slogan is: We don't steal the original protagonists' love interests.
3. The romance is one-on-one. This is a little story about someone who swears never to become a tool character, then finds true love.
Theme: Tool characters are people too. Gold will always shine, and hard work will always be rewarded~
