The Scheming Male Supporting Character Wants to Rise to Power (Matriarchal Society)

[A slow-paced farming and child-rearing story, with no space or golden finger...]

Lin Qiao is the handsomest young man in the area. When he comes of age, matchmakers seeking his hand in marriage practically wear down the threshold.

Everyone assumes Lin Qiao will marry into a village family and become a scholar's husband. Who could have guessed he'd rather risk being disowned by his family than carry a little bundle and marry an older widow in the eastern part of the village, a poor woman with nothing to her name and a child in tow?

Everyone says he's gone mad!

But Lin Qiao thinks he's perfectly clear-headed, because he knows how powerful Shi Yu will become in the future.

In his dream, he sees himself fall into the water and get rescued by Shi Yu. An ordinary young man would have to either marry her or die, but he refuses. Counting on his parents' fondness for him, he decides to make his half-brother, whom he looks down on, marry that old woman with a child in tow.

An older widow and a timid half-brother: aren't they a match made in heaven? He's a young man destined to become a scholar's husband.

Who would have guessed that years later, he'd still only be a scholar, and be criticized in every way for failing to give birth to a girl, while his wife kept taking one little temptress after another into her household?

But when his half-brother, who left the village with Shi Yu, returns, he's become a grand First-Rank Lady of Great Honor.

The fabric of his clothes is so precious that Lin Qiao has never seen anything like it, and it even shimmers in the sunlight. Pearls the size of fingernails are set on his shoes. Even the old woman Lin Qiao had despised has become gentle, handsome, and dazzlingly beautiful.

What makes him most jealous is that Lin An, just like him, can't give birth to a girl. So why doesn't Shi Yu take another husband?

Why!? He's the most outstanding young man in Little Peach Village, the one everyone adores!

Why should Lin An have a better life than him?

The male lead is not likable, proceed with caution!

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[Cover provided by artist BS]

Theme: Stand on your own, be strong, and love yourself