The Down-on-His-Luck Scholar Turns His Fortune Around (Farming)

Lin Jiangfeng transmigrated to an unknown dynasty and spent over a decade there, becoming a scholar from a farming family.

What came with him was a lifetime of bad luck.

He studied hard for ten years, hoping to pass the imperial examinations and make something of himself.

Yet he never once managed to set foot in the examination hall.

Sometimes he caught a chill, sometimes he got diarrhea. Once, just as he was about to arrive at the exam, a carriage came hurtling toward him...

His bad luck made life inconvenient in countless ways. He could fall off a chair, find a pebble in his dumplings, or get water stuck between his teeth.

He refused to accept his fate and dragged his sickly body into the examination hall.

This time, he was bedridden for ten days. When he opened his eyes again, he felt a despair unlike anything he had ever known.

He was penniless, with no way to get ahead. Anything that required even a little luck could cost him his life.

He wandered helplessly down the street and was run into by a woman rushing by in a panic.

Later, he discovered that spending time with her could cure his bad luck. Eventually, he also learned that she was the woman he had long loved, the one he had thought he would never see again!

On the same day he celebrated his wedding night and saw his name on the imperial examination list, he received two of life's greatest joys because of the same woman.

The heroine's perspective:

Gu Xiao is a woman born with the good fortune of a koi fish. A fortune-teller once read her destiny: she would bring prosperity to her husband and family and enjoy a lifetime of wealth.

Her family is desperately poor, but they have never treated her badly. Even though her mind has remained around the age of ten, they have never abandoned her.

Gu Xiao has the story of transmigration and rebirth. She was supposed to marry the unlucky scholar, help him defy fate, and pass the imperial exams on his first try.

But the younger son of a landowning family who also transmigrated interfered, stealing her good fortune for himself and treating her terribly. Her mother-in-law beat and scolded her at every turn, her husband doted on concubines and neglected his wife, and the servants bullied her without a second thought. Her whole life was miserable.

Now that she has memories of two lifetimes, Gu Xiao gives a cold laugh. If someone wants to borrow her good fortune, they can see whether she agrees to lend it!

Later...

"That unmarried seventeen-year-old daughter of the Gu family is incredible. She's so good at cooking, she's opened a shop in the county town."

"Their good-for-nothing second son has become a head manager. I hear he earns this much a month."

"The Gu family's little grandson started school at seven, and he's a prodigy who never forgets anything he reads!"

"I hear they even found the relatives they lost during the famine years ago!"

Everyone in Linjia Village agrees that the old Gu family is doing amazingly well. They're going to get rich!

Reader's guide:

1. A one-on-one happy-ending slice-of-life farming story.

2. Both leads transmigrated, and they have a mutual crush that gets a second chance.

3. An imaginary setting.

Coming Soon: Matchmaking in Ancient Times

She transmigrated.

To return to the normal world, she must find someone with a 100% compatibility rating and experience birth, aging, sickness, and death with them.

To make the most of her location, she apprenticed to a matchmaker and started a business in matchmaking.

"Matchmaker Qiu, my parents are both gone, and I'm raising my three younger siblings alone. I want a strong, hardworking man who'll be good to me and won't mind my family situation."

"No problem. Let's get you registered first."

"Matchmaker Qiu, my family can't afford to feed me, so my father is going to sell me. Please find me a decent family. I don't care what he looks like or how much money he has, as long as he can pay a bride price of two taels of silver. I'll marry him."

"Of course. I'll find someone for you right away."

"Matchmaker Qiu, my family wants me to marry that ugly shopkeeper Chen, but I really don't want to. I... I just want a decent-looking man, preferably a scholar."

"You want a handsome man with potential? Consider it done."

The family's life gradually improves. An Qiu matches several couples and becomes a respected figure in the villages for miles around, bringing her family a good life.

Her older brother returns from military service, anxious as he nears home and ready to lament that his grandmother and little sister have been left without care, suffering alone because of his failure to be a dutiful son. But then he sees the An family home, so unfamiliar and transformed that it seems to belong to a different household.

Is this really his home?

One day, a soldier returning from the battlefield arrives at the An home. At the sight of his handsome face and strong build, An Qiu feels her long-dormant heart beat again.

But their compatibility score is too low. She can only sigh with regret and diligently find him a wife. He has everything going for him, except that he's a little too rugged. With his eight-pack abs and slightly dark, wheat-colored skin, he blocks the airflow whenever he stands in her little courtyard. Everyone is terrified of him. An Qiu raises her brows. Is this one going to be left on the shelf?

"Matchmaker An, why don't we give us a try?"

Reader's guide:

1. One-on-one romance with a happy ending.

2. An imaginary ancient setting.

3. The everyday struggles of ordinary people.

Theme: Hope is right beneath your feet.