The Cannon-Fodder Female Lead Takes the Imperial Exams in Ancient Times (Female-Dominated World)

Fake younger puppy boyfriend vs. proper, innocent old-school gentleman

Yan Gu transmigrated.

Before transmigrating: She was an office drone who worked nine to five and had never even held hands with a man.

After transmigrating: She became Yan Gu, the amnesiac, dark-moonlight farmer's son in The Story of Shen Yue: an older unmarried woman with no children.

Not long after arriving, she studied pharmacology, set up a street stall, entered school, passed the children's exams, and sat the prefectural exams, successfully leading her whole family out of poverty and into prosperity.

Soon, someone came to her door carrying a keepsake, claiming to be her husband. Seeing that his keepsake was identical to the one around her neck, she began to think: A husband, children, and a warm bed, with pheasants flying right into the cooking pot, sounded pretty nice. Someone to bring her clothes when she was cold and cook her porridge when she was hot, a life warm in winter and cool in summer. It could hardly get any better.

Taking care of kids and cherishing her husband? She could handle that!

But:

When her second husband came to her door, she, a proper old-school innocent, started becoming a mother...

The mother of one child, two children, three children...

There were even people coveting her money!

Even her neighbor, Shen Yue, had fallen for her!

He said he didn't mind her age or her many children.

He claimed to like her for who she was, knowing she was honest and devoted, but his eyes were fixed on Yan Gu all day long.

Yan Gu clutched her newly earned money tightly, trembling.

What do you mean, eyeing the few coins I've got?

She was done! Love was fine, but money was off-limits!

And so...

She got her heart broken.

She decided to shut her heart away and set out to grow stronger and achieve even greater things! (Crossed out: She faced the palace examination, took the metropolitan examination, won first place in all three exams, and reached the peak of her career!)

Later on...

Shen Yue was done with it.

Wait, what? He showed up with a child and asked her for child support?

Yan Gu: "..." How about you just be after me instead? Love is so much better. It doesn't cost money.

Shen Yue wasn't having it. "No way! First, pay me back for the wet nurse's monthly wages, my makeup and skincare over the past three years, and four seasons' worth of clothes... That's a total of 66,460 taels in living expenses."

Yan Gu wore a dark expression and tried to make peace. "Well, we're family. My money is your money, and your money is my money. If I give it to you from my pocket, it's just moving money from one hand to the other. It's pointless..."

Shen Yue struggled to suppress the corners of his mouth as they began to rise, and said nonchalantly, "That's not the same."

Seeing his wife looking wilted as if she'd been hit by frost, his eyes filled with stars, and he said joyfully, "This is marital property. We can split it equally."

Yan Gu: "..." Give me back my childhood sweetheart who grew up with me!

Reading guide:

1. The heroine has memories of her past life. The setting is an alternate history that combines various elements.

2. Both men and women can bear children. (Men can have children by drinking water from the Tongtian River.)

3. The male lead bears a child.

Theme: Remember that as a youth you dreamed of reaching for the clouds, and once vowed to be the finest the world had to offer.