I Transmigrated as the Nasty Stepsister in an Imperial Exam Novel

After finally earning her master's degree in agronomy, Qu Jiaxuan doesn't get the job offer she wanted. Instead, she is tricked and loses her life.

Fortunately, the God of Fate may have felt she was shortchanged in her previous life, so Qu Jiaxuan gets to be reborn with her memories intact.

Being reborn is great. Though her home is bare, her mother has remarried, her maternal relatives ignore her, and all she has at home is her sickly father, with the two of them relying on each other, Qu Jiaxuan still feels happy.

After all, everything else can be replaced, but not a father who truly loves her.

She works diligently as a farm girl for more than a decade, and finally manages to raise her family to the status of minor landowners. Then news arrives from her mother: her mother's stepson has gotten married.

Of course, the marriage itself isn't the point. The point is that the bride and groom's names and circumstances seem far too familiar!

Qu Jiaxuan silently looks up at the sky. She never imagined she had transmigrated into a book, becoming the ill-fated daughter of the male lead's wicked stepmother. Using the wicked stepmother's influence to bleed the male lead's family dry, she eventually ends up disgraced and ruined by the male and female leads.

Qu Jiaxuan: ...Holding the things her mother sent over, which were only meant as a reciprocal courtesy, Qu Jiaxuan falls into deep thought.

Should she resist or give in? That is the question.

But before Qu Jiaxuan can decide, her father and childhood friend make the choice for her: We're going to fight this all the way!

Looking at her father's jade insignia as a prince, and touching her childhood friend's red robe as a top-ranked scholar, Qu Jiaxuan falls into deep thought.

With a hand this unbelievably lucky, how did her counterpart in the book manage to play it so badly?

Pre-release: Cousins in Spring

Why has the overlooked Er Mu Tou suddenly become the center of attention? Why has Lin Daiyu, once the target of everyone's criticism, suddenly stopped being bullied? Why are the snobbish members of the Jia family now fawning after acting so haughty before?

Please enjoy a spectacular Sichuan opera face change: the fallen family has made an astonishing comeback!

Standard blurb:

A sudden tsunami kills all four members of Hou Han Yin's family. When they wake again, they are nobodies who have survived by the skin of their teeth on the frontier.

Fortunately, they have abilities, memories, and golden fingers. In just a few years, they become prominent figures on the frontier. When the new emperor ascends the throne, they return to the capital in glory.

Then they are stunned to discover a Ning-Rong Street in the capital, and a boy born with a jade in his mouth in the Duke's mansion.

Only then does the Hou family realize with astonishment that they have transmigrated into Dream of the Red Chamber. Further investigation reveals that Er Mu Tou from the book is actually a close relative of theirs...

P.S. Jia Mu is portrayed negatively, as is the second branch. The first branch is not whitewashed.

Theme: Love yourself while also respecting others.