My Childhood Friend Is a Cramming Machine

(A laid-back beauty x the ultimate overachiever) In her previous life, Su Wan pushed herself relentlessly through graduate school and civil-service exams, only to drop dead from exhaustion. After being reborn in ancient times, she found that people there were just as competitive. Her eldest sister was famed throughout the capital for her literary talent, her second sister had peerless medical skills, and her third sister’s paintings were adored by countless literati. Su Wan: Forget it. I’m giving up. Her childhood friend, the ultimate overachiever, asked her: “Su Wan, don’t you have any goals in life?” “I do. Find a good husband, have enough to eat and drink, and enjoy the rest of my life.” “What about you, Lu Anxun?” “Rise to the highest position in the court, protect the realm, and ensure everyone has enough to eat and wear.” Su Wan nodded. “Perfect. So our life goals are on the same path.” Lu Anxun: ? . When the newly crowned top scholar paraded through the streets, the noblewomen of the capital fell for him at first sight. Yet this dazzlingly talented man somehow ended up with Su Wan. Everyone lamented the injustice. Su Wan remembered how, the day she forced a kiss on Lu Anxun, the young man had been so furious and mortified he looked ready to die. She lamented, too. If only such a handsome, perfect husband had a better temper. . Of the four Su sisters, only the concubine-born Su Wan has no ambition. She knows nothing about music, chess, calligraphy, or painting, but she excels at eating, drinking, and having fun. After spending eighteen years unmarried and unwanted, she has given her father so much worry that his hair has turned white. Just as he was planning to prepare a bigger dowry and find her any family willing to take her, Su Wan had quietly found herself a powerful and promising husband. Su Wan: If you’re going to slack off, you might as well find a promising investment and slack off even better. Who knew that her promising investment would rocket skyward, carrying her along on a favorable wind all the way to the clouds? Reading Guide: 1. The social system is modeled on the Song Dynasty. Very sweet and lighthearted. 2. One-on-one romance, both leads are inexperienced, and the male and female leads grew up together as childhood friends. Ensemble cast. Contest theme: Leaping through the Dragon Gate, rising from behind One-line introduction: This story follows the four Su sisters and their four different destinies, as well as the protagonists’ journey to stay true to themselves amid the era’s glittering wealth and power. ------- Upcoming Novel ------- [My Seven Lives of Torment with My Arch-Nemesis] I died. Gu Yun poisoned me. He didn’t get off easy, though. I stabbed him, and he collapsed beside me, glaring with resentment. As luck would have it, we fell in a rather unusual place: beneath a marriage tree. Earlier, Gu Yun had grabbed a marriage cord from the tree while trying to catch me, and now it was tied around both our wrists. When we reached the underworld, King Yama told us we would be bound together for the next seven lives. We would only be free in the eighth. And so began seven lives of bitter, unending entanglement. First life: An ascetic minister x a young empress dowager in mourning. A gentleman succumbs to forbidden temptation. Second life: A concubine-born younger sister forced into a substitute marriage x an aloof prince. A melodramatic pregnancy escape and a desperate road to redemption. Third life: An amnesiac immortal lord x a little demoness. The love-struck immortal goes mad for love. Fourth life: A princess of a fallen kingdom x a prince who bides his time and conceals his true intentions. They fall in love and fight with eight hundred schemes apiece. Fifth life: A young general willingly becomes the devoted subject beneath a spoiled princess’s skirts. He’s absolutely smitten. Sixth life: A scheming emperor x his stunning minister’s wife. A career-minded powerhouse abducts her by force and locks her away. Seventh life: Childhood friends, sworn enemies to the bitter end. Oh, I forgot to mention: I didn’t drink the Meng Po Soup at the Bridge of Forgetfulness. In all seven lives, I’ll make Gu Yun fall for me, then dump him and break his heart, to avenge my poisoning. But I never expected that in the eighth life, the man I’d dumped seven times would become my comeuppance. Note: The female lead is a self-serving woman who puts herself first. She is not a good person. . (The synopsis for this novel was screenshotted and filed on May 25, 2023.) Theme: Stay true to yourself