Song Baoning, principal of Longtu Technical School, transmigrated into a useless supporting heroine in a novel that contrasted two female leads. To compete with the heroine for the limelight, she spent a fortune opening an academy, but not a single person enrolled, and she became the laughingstock of the entire capital.
Baoning knew nothing about poetry or the classics, but luckily, she had the Vocational College System!
Who says an academy has to teach the Four Books and Five Classics?
Beauty and hairstyling, massage and saunas: noblewomen flocked from far and wide to enroll, eager to get in.
Cooking and banquets: chefs from marquises' mansions and imperial kitchens came in droves to study under her.
Hotel management and shop marketing: membership cards and advertisements were everywhere. Before long, every student who had taken a business course was raking in money.
While the heroine's academy spent all day cultivating graceful young ladies amid romance and poetry, Song Baoning was already leading her students in mining, smelting iron, building bridges and roads, and making cannons!
The Grand Princess became an outstanding graduate of the weapons manufacturing program. A line of landmines blew the Northern Rong army that had come to propose marriage sky-high. Even the Imperial Academy petitioned the emperor, begging him to assign two teachers from the technical academy to them...
Technology is always the primary productive force!
With nothing but a small academy, Song Baoning made herself the Great Yu dynasty's foremost businesswoman.
But it was hard to get anything done without connections at court, so she set her sights on Leng Xinggu, the newly crowned top scholar. She sent him gifts and invited him to banquets every few days, all so he would put in a good word for her at court.
Leng Xinggu passed the imperial exams at a young age and was famous in the capital for being poor and sharp-tongued. But ever since he agreed to be "partners in crime" with Song Baoning, he had been living like a nouveau riche, decked out in gold and silver.
His colleagues at court accused him of reckless spending and constantly making excuses for the Song family, claiming he must have taken bribes.
Leng Xinggu merely replied, "It's my wife's money. At most, I'm just living off her."
A sharp-tongued, impoverished, black-bellied censor with a thousand tricks up his sleeve x a sly, money-loving businesswoman who doesn't understand romance
Theme: Independence and self-reliance
