I Became the Richest Man After Being Exiled

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Miao Wan only realized she had transmigrated into a palace-intrigue novel while being sent into exile with her husband's family.

Of course, palace intrigue had nothing to do with her.

She was the cannon-fodder first wife whom the heroine's childhood friend and cousin, Qiao Ruichen, had married at his parents' behest.

The Qiao family had been caught up in palace intrigue, framed, and sent into exile.

The first wife couldn't endure the bitter cold of the northwest. After suffering a miscarriage, she fell ill and died, eventually appearing in the novel's epilogue as a grave on a hill.

Miao Wan watched her mother-in-law shivering in a dilapidated hut as she did embroidery to support the family, and her sister-in-law washing vegetables with hands swollen like turnips. She rubbed her rounded belly and sighed.

Fine. Since I'm here, I might as well make the best of it. First, I'll set a small goal: avoid ending up as a grave on a hill and make a tiny fortune.

As for being unable to bear the bitter cold of the northwest and miscarrying?

She was a born-and-raised girl from the northwest, famous far and wide as the Pig-Raising Queen. She could raise over a thousand pigs just fine. Surely she could raise a little bun?

No problem at all.

Reading notes:

1. This is a fictional mishmash. The male lead and the heroine of the original novel have no romantic entanglement.

2. A Wan is pregnant from the start. The story opens in the northwest, with plenty of feel-good wish fulfillment and no misery.

3. The main plot is raising kids and making money. The romance is minimal, and the male lead is a tool character.

-- The Female Lead System After Linking to Her Substitute --

Qiao Qiao transmigrated into a substitute character in a cultivation novel.

According to the original plot, when the heroine returned from reincarnation, the substitute's standing in the sect would plummet. She would eventually turn evil and frame the heroine, only to be turned into a puppet by one of the heroine's suitors and die without a trace in the war between humans and demons.

When Qiao Qiao arrived, the heroine had already returned.

The good news: the substitute hadn't turned evil yet.

The bad news: the heroine was an obsessive overachiever in the cultivation world, and her foil's ending was still going to be tragic.

So what was she waiting for? Run!

Even if she had to run her legs off or jump off a cliff, she would never be stupid enough to stay and follow the substitute's plot!

Just as Qiao Qiao packed her things and prepared to flee, she somehow linked to the heroine's System and heard mechanical voices at different distances:

Distant voice: [Congratulations, Host, on mastering the art of drawing qi into your body within an hour. Reward: one top-grade Heaven-rank cultivation manual.]

Nearby voice: [Reward: one immortal pill to cleanse your spiritual roots. Please collect it.]

Qiao Qiao: Huh?

The System wasn't hers, but a wooden box had appeared in her storage pouch. Inside was the very immortal pill the nearby voice had mentioned!

Qiao Qiao: What the hell!

So while the heroine was working herself to the bone cultivating, her substitute got half of the heroine's rewards as well?

Well, her feet suddenly seemed to have a mind of their own, and Qiao Qiao, who had been about to run, turned back.

She could handle being this kind of substitute!

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Mini-scene:

At the sect tournament, Qiao Qiao returned her elite disciple token after her senior brother stopped her. The elite heroine fought tooth and nail to win first place.

Distant voice: [Congratulations, Host, on winning a sect-level challenge for the first time. Reward: ten thousand high-grade spirit stones.]

Nearby voice: [Reward: one top-grade fire spirit crystal. Please collect it.]

The heroine smiled. Qiao Qiao cried, moved by the huge spirit crystal, worth one hundred thousand high-grade spirit stones.

Inside an ancient secret realm, Qiao Qiao returned the treasured sword token to her junior brother. The sword-wielding heroine risked her life to reach the core.

Distant voice: [Ding! Congratulations, Host, on receiving a bottle of golden dragon blood. Reward: one chest of dragon treasure.]

Nearby voice: [Reward: a phoenix bloodline transformation technique and one immortal-grade Dream Parasol Tree. Please collect them.]

The heroine endured the pain of having her entire blood replaced and became a half-dragon. Qiao Qiao took a nap and woke up as an ancient golden phoenix.

Qiao Qiao was overjoyed. What kind of low-key, effortless treasure was this!

She happily sought out the sect leader's eldest disciple, one of the heroine's suitors, and said, "Senior Brother, I've worn the top-grade magic robe you gave me. Don't worry, I had someone reforge it, so I'll take it right over to Little Junior Sister. I won't hold her up from going on a trial!"

The Golden Crow demon emperor, disguised as a human, smiled. "If you've taken my feather, you're mine, duckling. If you dare give it away, I'll chop your head off!"

Qiao Qiao felt a chill at her neck: "...This is a substitute novel, and now there's duckling romance too???"

Theme: Life needs a positive attitude.