After Becoming a Substitute Bride, I Helped the Poor in Ancient Times

This story wasn't written well, so don't read it, QAQ~

Overworked office worker Shen Lingyu transmigrates into a cannon-fodder maid and takes the place of the heroine as the bride of Prince Qi, who is rumored to be cruel-tempered and debauched.

To escape her tragic fate, she binds herself to a strange System and accepts a mission to lead the people of Qi Prefecture out of poverty and into prosperity.

A severe drought strikes the western region, leaving people displaced. Shen Lingyu borrows a huge sum from the System, renovates the old streets, and gives the people new homes.

Floods send grain prices soaring, so Shen Lingyu scatters fertilizer over the fields, making the barren soil produce several times more grain.

An epidemic suddenly breaks out in the eastern region. Shen Lingyu generously shares medicinal formulas, builds clinics, manufactures masks and alcohol, and teaches people about hygiene.

After solving the problems affecting people's livelihoods, she introduces benevolent policies to develop animal husbandry, livestock farming, and mining, issues loans, and encourages the people to start their own businesses...

The poverty alleviation campaign finally begins to make progress. The people live stable, happy lives, and speak of Princess Qi with heartfelt gratitude.

Just as Shen Lingyu is secretly congratulating herself on her achievements, the wealthy young man who's been at her side all along lightly waves his fan and asks with a smile, "My lady, I hear you've been telling people everywhere that this prince died in battle?"

Shen Lingyu: "I didn't. I never said that."

The wealthy young man: "And you also told people this prince had been possessed?"

Shen Lingyu: "Don't believe rumors, and don't spread them."

Prince Qi, Zhao Jingxing, is infamous. Rumors have sprung up from nowhere that he's ugly and unpredictable, and that he died on the battlefield long ago. The one left in his body now, they say, must be some evil ghost that possessed him and came from who knows where.

Zhao Jingxing has no time to deal with the gossip. He has to suppress foreign raiders at the border and handle the affairs of Qi Prefecture. He rushes back and forth between the two, so busy his feet hardly touch the ground.

The Emperor decrees his marriage. With no choice, Zhao Jingxing uses the unrest at the border as an excuse to leave the prince's residence on the eve of his wedding, transforming himself into the dashing, elegant Young Master Zhao.

The Princess of Yan is prickly and eccentric, and word of her having reached twenty without marrying has long since spread across the realm.

He originally intends to test this wife he's been saddled with, but little by little, she catches his eye.

Others assume Prince Qi dislikes his new wife and would rather remain at the border than return to Qi Prefecture. Only Grand Tutor He watches Prince Qi at his consort's side day after day and thinks, Heh, let's see how long you two keep pretending.

This novel is also known as Shen Lingyu's Everyday Social Disasters

One-on-one romance + older woman and younger man

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A carefree, polyamorous senior disciple who lives for pleasure X a cold, aloof junior disciple who can't help falling for her

The four male disciples of the Illusory Moon Sect are all talented and handsome, each with his own special skills.

The eldest disciple wants only freedom.

The second disciple wants only men.

The third disciple wants only to ascend to immortality.

The youngest disciple wants only...

The youngest disciple grits his teeth. "I just want all of you to stay far away from me!"

The three female disciples of the Illusory Moon Sect are renowned throughout the realm, each with her own merits.

The youngest junior sister is lively and adorable.

The second senior sister is ruthless and vicious.

The eldest senior sister...

The eldest senior sister is a lovesick fool.

In life, she was utterly devoted to her junior disciple, considerate and endlessly accommodating, but she never managed to earn even a smile from him.

One day, she takes a blow from the Demon Lord to save the man her junior disciple loves. With a heart corroded by countless poisons, even the immortals can't save her. At the end, she leaps from the Boundless Cliff. As she takes her last breaths, she's still worrying about whether her junior disciple is safe, not knowing that he has already retired to the bamboo forest with his beloved, living in harmony together.

As luck would have it, Jiang Wanji transmigrates and wakes up as the eldest senior sister.

Remembering the original owner's tragic ending, she shakes her head repeatedly.

Keep chasing someone and you'll end up with nothing.

Wouldn't it be better to be a player?

Just look:

The eldest senior brother is handsome and talented.

The second senior brother is charming and debonair.

The third senior brother is graceful and refined.

Even the villainous Demon Lord is so wickedly charismatic.

Why insist on pursuing the youngest junior disciple?

The youngest junior disciple is gifted, and wants for nothing throughout his life, detached from the world.

His only concern is how to get his eldest senior sister to stop bothering him and give up as soon as possible.

Until one day, he discovers that the eldest senior sister, who has always been caring and passionate toward him, treats every one of her senior brothers the same way, even the Demon Lord...

The youngest junior disciple angrily comes to find her and says through gritted teeth, "Do you still mean what you said before, when you told me you liked me?!"

Eldest Senior Sister: "No."

Theme: When the people have faith, the nation has hope, and Qi Prefecture has strength.