A Peddler's Daily Life in Ancient Times: Supporting His Family and Pursuing the Imperial Exams

As a survivor, Huang Jibei spent ten years struggling to live through the apocalypse. After his base exploded, he transmigrated into an imperial-examination novel. In the story, he was the male lead's cousin and the first cannon-fodder character marked for a tragic end. The harder he worked, the luckier the male lead became. The more diligently he studied, the more miserable his whole family became. This was simply outrageous!

To avoid the male lead's golden finger, he decided to strategically abandon literature and go into business instead. A gentleman's revenge can wait three years!

The white chrysanthemums on the mountain were in full bloom. He could pick them, wash and dry them, then sell them to a tea shop. That would give him the capital to start a business!

With little capital, he would start small. He could modify the family's handcart and sell wontons from it. That would cover his father's medical expenses!

What? No one here has ever heard of candied hawthorns? And they're feeding such fine hawthorns to pigs? Then he would have to show everyone how it was done!

A night market without starch sausages is incomplete. Would you care for a grilled sausage, good sir?

The main road had only just been repaired, and now they were going to tear down the little roadside hut? What a waste! Let him rent it and open a tea stall!

Before he knew it, his business had grown and grown. It was time to return to school! There had to be a way to deal with the male lead's golden finger after all!

Reader's Guide:

1. The male lead builds his fortune from scratch through hard work. He won't suddenly get rich overnight.

2. Farming, business, the imperial examinations, and entering officialdom all progress naturally, step by step.

3. The female lead is the real daughter who was switched at birth. The romance begins after he passes the imperial examinations.

New novel, The Four Cousin Misses Arrive at the Duke's Mansion, currently being prepared. Please add it to your reading list!

The Duke of Anguo had two sons and four daughters. Born to a humble family, he rose from a common soldier to become a mighty duke. As his status grew, each of his four daughters made a better marriage than the last.

The four daughters each married into one of four kinds of families: scholar, farmer, artisan, and merchant. Though they were all daughters of a duke, their fates turned out to be very different.

Twenty years passed in a flash. The once delicate young ladies had become middle-aged women, but their daughters had blossomed into beauties, each more lovely than the last.

Arranging their daughters' marriages became a major task for the mothers.

The Fourth Miss was the first to act. Though she had made the best marriage, she died young. Her husband, a great general, was stationed at the border year-round, so she entrusted their daughter to her parents to raise before she died.

Next came the Third Miss, who had married the richest man in Jiangnan. Though her family was fabulously wealthy, she still never passed up a chance to get something for free. Since her Fourth Sister's daughter had moved into the Duke's mansion, how could her own daughter be left behind?

If her two younger sisters could send their daughters to the Duke's mansion, why couldn't the older sisters do the same? They had suffered enough from their own marriages. They couldn't let their daughters follow in their footsteps.

So the eldest daughter, who had married a farmer, brought her youngest daughter, while the Second Miss, who had married a blacksmith, brought her second daughter. They arrived in the capital with their whole families in tow and found places for their daughters in the Duke's mansion.

Along with the four young ladies of the Duke's own household, that made eight women under one roof. The show was about to begin.

Theme: After hardship comes happiness, and diligence is rewarded by Heaven.