The Farm Boy I Sponsored Became the Top Scholar

Cui Xiaoyuan transmigrates back to the year she was fourteen, the day her father is gravely ill and their relatives gather at the Cui residence.

She once believed that having family meant she wasn't completely alone. But after her father died, she watched them eagerly divide up the Cui family fortune and show her no mercy as they tried to destroy her. Only then did she realize their earlier kindness had all been an act, meant to trick her father into entrusting her to them on his deathbed.

This time, she will never put her fate in outsiders' hands. She absolutely will not trust them again.

Fortunately, the Benevolence System transmigrated with her, and its spirit springs and medicinal herbs are inexhaustible.

The Cui clan members keep watch beside Cui Xiu's bed, helplessly witnessing his final moments. They await the words in which he will entrust his young daughter to them. Just then, the usually frail, housebound, and taciturn girl of the Cui family steps out from behind the crowd.

"Father, don't worry. I have something to say."

As Cui Xiu lay dying, it was as if he were in a dream. He saw that the relatives he had planned to entrust with his daughter had not cared for her at all. Instead, they had seized the family fortune and mistreated her, even forcing her to become a concubine for the sake of making their claim to the assets seem legitimate.

When he opened his eyes again and saw the faces that had always seemed so kind, he nearly choked with fury. At the most critical moment, his daughter's voice gave his failing body a glimmer of hope.

From then on, the Cui family underwent a dramatic change. The gravely ill Divine Physician Cui recovered without medicine. The Cui family's apothecary closed, and in its place they bought up many shops along the street. Divine Physician Cui stopped treating patients, too. Cui Xiaoyuan seemed like a different person as well. She collected rent from her properties and chose to lie flat, keeping life interesting by outsmarting obnoxious relatives, helping the young and weak, and sponsoring students. She did good deeds in hopes of living to ninety-nine, and became a legend in Ping'an County.

Still, plenty of people watched from the sidelines and said, "A woman who shows her face in public all day will never find a husband. Who would dare marry her?"

The top scholar of the dynasty: "I would!"

Reader's Guide:

1. The story mainly focuses on family bonds.

2. There are plenty of obnoxious relatives.

3. A slice-of-life story about the everyday affairs of a small-town community.

4. The male lead is one of the rural students she sponsors.

Theme: The little joys hidden in ordinary life