Selling Flatbreads and Studying for the Imperial Exams with My Young Husband

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In his previous life, Shen Shijin was a young man who achieved success early,

but, like Zhong Yong, he squandered his talent and ended up an ordinary man, dying miserably in a thatched hut.

After death, Shen Shijin finally learns that his life was never supposed to turn out that way.

His older brother had stolen his opportunities.

Reborn, he swears to take back everything that belongs to him.

He abandons his parasitic family and takes his mother to live separately.

His little sister is young, his young male cousin is frail, and his mother is in poor health.

So what if being a merchant is considered lowly? Getting enough to eat matters more.

Fragrant sesame-sauce pancakes, with people from all around lining up to buy them.

Savory, spicy preserved-vegetable pork pancakes, beloved even by the scholars at the academy.

Crispy, flaky hand-grabbed pancakes, sold out before they even come off the griddle.

He makes more money than he can count, and his little husband grows plump and pampered.

From the son of a concubine to the imperial examinations and a life of success, it takes him two lifetimes to get there.

Extra scene

Madam Zhao had been thinking that Wen Rong was grown up now. Though he was a young man, she had raised him since he was little, and she wanted to find him a good family to marry into.

Shen Shijin looks at the young man he's raised. He's handsome and gentle, like a little ball of glutinous rice. Shen Shijin likes him more and more.

He raised him, doted on him from childhood, and brought him up with care. Why should he become someone else's husband?

He was the one who raised him to be his child bride.

When he's still oblivious: "Give him time. He'll understand the difference between family affection and love."

When a rival comes calling: "I raised him. What makes you think I'll give him to you?" Even if the melon is forcibly twisted off the vine, you have to taste it first.

Xiao Rong: "No need to force it. It's sweet~ I'm sweet!"

The Cabbage of the Top Scholar's Household

Xu Lang transmigrates into a farming novel as a weak scholar who can't even truss a chicken. That's not all. There's also a scrawny child bride in his house.

On the first day after the child bride moves in, he goes to wash the dishes.

The kitchen nearly burns down.

On the second day, he goes to hoe the fields.

He tramples a whole patch of seedlings.

On the third day after he moves in...

Xu Lang: "Wait, wait, wait. Stay home and rest. I'll do it."

He needs money for his studies and has to support a "hardworking" little husband who keeps wasting their money. Xu Lang has no choice but to find a way to earn a living. Fortunately, he's got a knack for cooking.

He starts small, selling jianbing, grilled sausages, and fried skewers.

Later, he opens a malatang and hot pot restaurant, turning his little business into a bustling success.

Xu Lang has to study and run his business during the day, then go home to take care of his little husband at night. He's busy every single day.

At long last, he's raised his scrawny little cabbage into a crisp, fair-skinned young man, but now the cabbage wants to run away. Xu Lang is so exasperated he can't help laughing.

Xu Lang sets off on a "long" journey to win his husband back and catches him just twenty meters from home.

"Why are you running?"

"Because you insist on biting me!"

"I didn't bite you. I kissed you!"

"Kissing is not allowed either!"

"What's wrong with kissing the one I raised?"

"Even if you raised me, I'm still your younger brother. Of course you should take care of me!"

Xu Lang is so exasperated he laughs. Back when his little husband was pretending to be a poor, pitiful child bride in front of everyone to get free food, he never called Xu Lang his older brother. Now he does.

Xu Lang grabs his chubby cheeks and gives him a hard kiss. "Little rascal, think carefully. I'm supposed to raise my child bride, yes, but the one I'm raising is my wife."

#Raising a child bride into a little tyrant

Extra scene:

Li Ruan goes back to his parents' home with a little bundle. His family gathers around to ask him questions.

"Xiao Ruan, is your husband treating you badly?"

Li Ruan gazes at them tearfully. "I'm only a child bride. How good can my life be?"

His family: "Did he hit you?"

"No."

His family: "Did he curse at you?"

"No!"

His family: "Does he refuse to feed you?"

"No."

His family: "Then what did he do...?"

Li Ruan pouts angrily. "This morning, he gave me cold socks to put on. They made my feet cold."

His family: ...?

Extra scene 2

Author: "Brother Xu, why did you raise a child bride?"

Xu Lang: "For fun."

Author: "Just like that? You seem to have raised Xiao Bao pretty well."

Xu Lang: "Raised him as a child, then when he grew up... had fun."

Author: "Fun? Can you write that kind of fun on Jinjiang?"

A super-cute, pampered darling who knows how to work his way up the ladder VS a clever, hardworking top scholar and devoted husband

Child brides are a feudal relic. This is just a setting in a historical story, so don't take it seriously.

The Top Scholar's Foolish Beauty of a Younger Brother

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Good news: Yu Nian has transmigrated into a book.

And the male lead is the top scholar who came first in all three imperial examinations, the darling of his whole family.

Bad news: His mother is the male lead's stepmother and abuses him.

His grandparents are harsh to him... They treat Yu Nian as their treasure, and the whole family lives off the male lead.

In the end, they even cause the male lead to lose a leg, and the entire family is exiled.

A disastrous start...

Can I just run away first...?

Wicked stepmother: "Son, I made you some new clothes."

Bitter smile... Mom, you paid for those with the male lead's school fees, didn't you?

Biased grandfather: "Precious grandson, Grandpa stewed you some eggs."

Heart sinking... Grandpa, those were meant for the male lead, weren't they?

Yu Nian: ...Ah, stop being nice to me! I don't want to die with you!

He can't escape, but he can't bear to die. Trying to win over the male lead gets him nowhere. What should he do?

Wait...

"Big brother, you're amazing."

Affection: 5

"Big brother, you're so clever."

Affection: 10

His aloof older brother seems to need a lot of attention.

No more dying~

Why bother studying? My brother's the top scholar. I'll just cling to him.

Extra scene

Yu Nian: "Do you know who my brother is? My brother's the top scholar."

Xiao Jinyu: "Hmph. My brother's the Crown Prince."

Yu Nian: "My brother's literary talent is unrivaled."

Xiao Jinyu: "My brother's military prowess can secure the frontier."

Yu Nian: "My... brother..." Before he can finish, someone pinches his mouth shut.

Looking at the fair, pretty little scholar who keeps comparing their brothers, Xiao Jinyu chuckles softly. "My brother is a ruler, and yours is a subject. My brother outranks yours."

Yu Nian: ...If you want to talk, fine, but why are you standing so close?

"My brother... Wait, if you want to outrank me, that's fine, but what the hell are you taking my clothes off for?"

Xiao Jinyu looks at the little scholar, whose eyes are brimming with tears and whose face is stubbornly defiant. He chuckles. "Of course I'll follow my brother's example. I'll outrank you too."

A story about two devoted fans of their respective older brothers who fight until they end up in bed together.

A carefree scholar who's obsessed with his brother VS a dissolute Seventh Prince who's obsessed with his brother

My brother is the greatest minister under heaven VS My brother is the greatest ruler of all time

#Even if I love kissing you, your brother still can't beat mine

#Even if you're my wife, my brother is still better than yours

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