This Soft-Rice Life Sure Is Sweet (Women Rule)

After invigilating an exam, Song Yingyue, a history PhD, went home for a nap and transmigrated into the body of a cannon-fodder character in a matriarchal novel.

The original owner was a scumbag: lecherous, a compulsive gambler, and a bully at home. Whenever she had money, she went to gambling dens and brothels. When she ran out, she schemed to sell her younger brother and beat her husband.

There was also her elderly father, who had cried himself blind over such a disappointing daughter. None of their neighbors had a kind word to say about her, and even the village dogs would go around her.

By terrible luck, Song Yingyue transmigrated at exactly this moment. Looking at the husband she was dragging along, his mouth bleeding from her beatings and his face set in despair, she suddenly raised her hand and slapped herself.

"Come on, let's go home. I'll study and support you."

She couldn't handle manual labor, but studying was right up her alley.

Unfortunately, after years of studying, Dr. Song had transmigrated to the countryside, where she couldn't lift a thing or carry anything on her shoulders, and could barely tell apart the less common grains. And so her grand ambition of supporting her husband collapsed halfway through, leaving her with a bowl of rice to eat, still warm in her hands.

All she could do was study hard. Later, everyone at the academy noticed that Song Yingyue had changed. She started going to bed later than a dog and getting up earlier than a rooster, muttering classical phrases to herself in the classroom at dawn.

Classmates: She's definitely putting on an act!

She takes the provincial exam.

Classmates: What a fool, thinking she can sit the exam after reading a couple of books.

Later, the young woman rides through the streets with her head held high, seeing all the flowers of Chang'an in a single day.

Classmates: Waaaah, it's all our fault for being so blind! We never knew that the top scholar, Song, was a star sent from the heavens.

Bonus Scene:

The Emperor: "Young Minister Song, you are so young and learned. I have a prince who would be a fine match for you. What do you think?"

Song Yingyue: "That won't do, that won't do. Your humble servant already has a husband. I was able to take the civil service exams and have the honor of appearing before you only because I lived off my husband's money. (Smug JPG)"

The Emperor and all the ministers: ...

--, Pre-release

Becoming the Villain's Wife (Matriarchal Society)

Everyone knows that Shen An, the eldest son of the Earl of Jian'an, is naturally handsome and striking, with talent that outshines everyone in the capital. Countless women dream of making him their husband, and the marriage brokers sent by every household nearly wore down the earl's doorstep as soon as he came of age.

But few know that the Earl of Jian'an has a second son, Shen Li.

Shen Li has known since childhood that every good thing in the world goes to his older brother. He and his father are nothing but a stain on his mother's deep affection for her first husband. He has spent more than a decade treading carefully just to survive in the earl's household, treated worse than the servants.

He is reborn on the eve of his replacement marriage. He had planned to set the whole estate ablaze and take everyone who had wronged him down with him, but the most revered princess in the land unexpectedly asks the Emperor to decree that she marry him by name in the Golden Hall.

The heroine's perspective:

After Jiang Sui learned she had transmigrated into a matriarchal novel, she was already in despair. What made it worse was seeing the plot that came next. Shen Li, the seemingly frail second son of the Earl of Jian'an, was actually the story's greatest villain. Forced into a replacement marriage, he would turn completely evil, seduce his wife and throw the court into chaos, then brazenly collude with foreign powers and plunge all of Great Qi into turmoil.

As Great Qi's future heir, Jiang Sui was heartbroken. After much thought, she decided to keep this black lotus by her side and personally set him straight.

Bonus Scene:

Shen Li presses a hand to his chest, gives Jiang Sui a bewitching look, and says, "My chest hurts, Wife. I need you to rub it for me personally."

Jiang Sui sits bolt upright with a memorial in her hands and asks without looking up, "Have you memorized the Socialist Core Values and the Eight Honors and Eight Shames? How much do you understand of them now? And have you finished the reading list I gave you last time?"

Shen Li: ... Good grief, this is going to be the death of me.

-----, Hehe, another pre-release.

Scheming for the Throne

One-line summary: From servant to empress.

No one in this world can save me, and I never rely on anyone.

I am Song Ci. I haven't had a single good day since I was born. I got this far through my own planning and hard work. I've done every wicked thing imaginable, but I have no regrets.

(I just want to write a story about a woman who's not traditionally good. She makes no excuses for herself, doesn't lose herself in romance, is a master schemer, loves power, and eventually rises to the top to look down on the world without ever regretting it. Just thinking about it is so satisfying!!!)

Theme: Seize the day while life is sweet, and don't let the golden cup sit empty beneath the moon