Q: What should I do after becoming the universally disliked fake young master in an imperial-examination novel, as well as an early-death cannon-fodder character?
Xu Wenqing: Thanks for asking. I have a son and a daughter, farm in the Northeast, and live a pretty good life!
Xu Wenqing was the son the First Prince had mistaken for his own. He was brought to the prince's residence at age five and raised as its precious heir.
Unfortunately, he was stupid and useless at both letters and martial arts. He spent his days fighting crickets, drinking and carousing with a bunch of wastrels, and making trouble for the whole region.
One day, he took a fancy to the chief councilor's legitimate son, a male-born. He then spent every day scheming to make the young man marry him, even going so far as to arrange for him to fall into the water and lose his virtue in front of everyone.
After Xu Wenqing fell into the water, he became seriously ill. To save him, the prince's consort came up with the idea of a lucky wedding. The very next day, they held a grand wedding and married him to the chief councilor's legitimate son.
But on the wedding day, this year's top imperial-examination graduate presented a jade seal, proving that Xu Wenqing was a fake young master.
The prince flew into a rage and threw Xu Wenqing, the impostor, out of the family, banishing him to the frigid city of Liang in the Northeast.
Xu Wenqing was already sick and couldn't fight back after being driven out. When he lifted the veil of his new husband, he discovered that the person he'd married wasn't the chief councilor's legitimate son at all. He died of rage on the spot.
Then Xu Wenqing, a master's student in the agricultural college of a well-known modern university, transmigrated into the body of the Xu Wenqing who had just died of rage.
Song Qingming was the son of the chief councilor's concubine, a male-born who grew up in a remote village.
Ever since he was forced to marry in place of Song Jinyu, the chief councilor's legitimate son, his days had been full and happy.
His husband was refined and courteous, great at farming, and incredibly gentle with him. He was just a little rough in bed, and when he got too worked up, Song Qingming could barely keep up.
He watched with his own eyes as the useless husband everyone talked about turned his life around, step by step, and became a chief agricultural minister beloved by the people.
He also watched the chief councilor's legitimate son, who had once forced him to marry his husband, eagerly try to replace him and become his husband's new spouse.
Xu Wenqing: Tell him to go back where he came from. I don't want him getting in the way of me and my husband. Even if he's that desperate to marry, he mustn't ruin someone else's family. It would be shameful to be content with becoming a concubine.
Theme: Work diligently, and one day you'll reap results you never expected