A Stepmother's Daily Life Raising a Son in an Imperial Exam Novel

[New Novel: My Older Sister, the Villainess] is now available. The blurb is at the end. Shen Cui accidentally transmigrates into an imperial-examination novel, becoming Shen, the beautiful but vicious young stepmother in the story. Her stepson, Mu Yunchuan, will soon pass all six levels of the imperial examinations, rise to the highest ranks, and repay her a hundredfold for every wicked thing she has done to him. Without a second thought, Shen Cui plans to make her escape that very night. Then the [Imperial Examination Child-Rearing System] comes online! [Task 1: Choose one of your two sons to raise.] [Task 2: Work hard at cooking and needlework to become an excellent parent to an aspiring scholar.] [Task 3: Find your son a renowned teacher whose qualifications are no lower than 85.] Shen Cui doesn't dare provoke the original male lead, so she digs her own son, the lazybones who serves as his foil in the original book, out of bed instead. "Son, come study." "Ma, I can't read!" Too bad. You're studying whether you like it or not. If you don't earn a degree, your big brother will wipe us both out! Shen Cui works hard at cooking and needlework, finds her son a renowned teacher and classmates, and even opens an academy. Before she knows it, all the other foil characters who had been overshadowed by the male lead's aura in the original story have become her pupils. Well, if she can raise one foil, she can raise a whole bunch! * One foil character might not be able to overcome the male lead's aura. But what if she raises a whole bunch of them? [Reader's Guide]: 1. Inspired by various raising simulation games. 2. The daily life of a stepmother in an imperial-examination novel (the identity the heroine takes after transmigrating into the book). She raises her own son, not her stepson. 3. A very down-to-earth slice-of-life farming novel about family matters. Romance: heroine x System. 4. This novel will be available starting March 20 (Sunday), with 9,000 words posted that day. Please add my new novel, [My Older Sister, the Heroine of a Tragic Romance], to your collection! Jiang Sui transmigrates into an old-fashioned tragic romance novel and becomes the heroine's older sister. In the original story, she is granted a marriage to the male lead. She then witnesses, and helps bring about, his tumultuous romance with her younger sister, full of separations and reunions, until they finally end up together and have children. As for Jiang Sui, she spends the rest of her miserable life in a temple, praying by lamplight... Jiang Sui says: I'm not about to be that kind of sucker! Unfortunately, the story starts at the scene where her marriage is being arranged, and she's about to be promised to the male lead. Jiang Sui scans the characters in the book, ignores the plot, and blurts out, "This subject wishes to marry Prince Zhen'an and bring him good fortune!" Prince Zhen'an, Rong Shen, is the Great Yong Empire's God of War, and the male lead's uncle. Most importantly, after a bloody battle years ago, he fell into a coma and never woke up. That's what happens in the original story, at least. Even when several emperors succeed one another, they all continue to treat him with respect for his outstanding military achievements. Isn't being a widow surrounded by gold and silver better than marrying the male lead of a tragic romance? But Jiang Sui doesn't realize until after the wedding that although the prince's residence is indeed resplendent with gold and jade, the treasures are imperial gifts and can't be sold at will. The household businesses are poorly run and losing money, and the orphaned children of soldiers adopted by Prince Zhen'an are all clamoring to be fed... Her dream of living as a carefree layabout shattered, Jiang Sui spends the whole day feeling miserable. Then she rolls up her sleeves and gets to work making money. Why not have the whole family pitch in? Her younger sister can stay away from that awful male lead and help them earn money instead! Before long, Jiang Sui no longer has to worry about money. Her younger sister is sweet and sensible, her mother-in-law does whatever she says, and the children truly see her as their mother. Life couldn't be better. Then one day, while Jiang Sui is eating hot pot with the children in their room, the man on the sickbed suddenly opens his eyes. * Prince Zhen'an Rong Shen was wounded on the battlefield and barely survived the mountain of corpses. After years in a coma, he wakes to discover he has acquired a princess consort who married him to bring him good fortune. Everyone tells him that his consort is deeply devoted to him, has worked tirelessly, made great sacrifices, and devoted herself day and night to his care... His mother, the children he adopted, and every trusted aide around him all sing her praises. They repeatedly warn him never to let her down. That night, Rong Shen watches the princess consort who supposedly loves him more than anything, clacking away at an abacus in her room around the clock. "This bookshop is mine. I saved it by writing popular stories, and you wouldn't know what to do with it anyway." "This restaurant wasn't doing well before. I trained the chef, so that belongs to me too." "As for this silk shop..." "If no one objects, let's get the divorce papers signed." After settling the accounts, the princess consort starts packing. Judging by the way she's going about it, she'd even scrape the plaster off the walls. Rong Shen, watching his home about to be stripped bare: ... Was his brain damaged by all that sleep, or is something seriously wrong here?! Theme: Breaking free of prejudice and predetermined fate, and taking control of your own destiny.