The Son-in-law's Daily Grind in the Imperial Exam World

Pre-release: The blurb for The Vassal Prince Who Accidentally Ascended the Throne is at the very end. If you're interested, please add it to your collection [Fresh Premise].

Blurb:

Gu Yunzheng was bound to a System just before he died. He was supposed to play the male supporting character well,

but an unexpected temporal rift threw him and the System off course. After transmitting the plot, the System could only go into standby to stay alive.

Only after reading the entire story did Gu Yunzheng realize that he had transmigrated into the body of a scummy live-in son-in-law.

In an era when human life was worth no more than grass, the original owner's frail body was like a leech sucking the blood of his own family and his wife's. He used his relatives' resources to earn an official degree, then abandoned his first wife and ruthlessly tried to kill her. He treated his family with cold indifference and dragged the whole clan into trouble.

In the end, he was no more than a cannon-fodder character in this imperial-examination novel, and died a truly miserable death.

Prompted by his conscience, Gu Yunzheng devoted himself to leading the people around him toward a better life.

And the System, which had been falling apart, didn't end up shutting down as expected.

Instead, thanks to its Host, it accidentally completed the missions of all kinds of male supporting characters perfectly,

even becoming an important male supporting character in countless novels!

He was the guiding light for the male lead in a fanfic where a mighty general followed a wise ruler and built a career;

he was also the support behind the female lead in a story about a self-made heroine who rose through the ranks and farmed her way to prosperity;

he was the male lead's trusty helper in a power-fantasy novel about an emperor's rise to the top;

Not only that, he worked hard to become the male lead of a story about a cannon-fodder character's comeback and nation-building,

leaving his name in the annals of history and winning everlasting fame!

P.S.:

1. Love at first sight, then marriage before love. The pacing isn't fast (really, really, really)!

2. Domestic life and family matters. The early setting is a village, the middle is the imperial examinations (with some liberties taken, and the exams are mainly background), and the later part is nation-building. There won't be much melodramatic revenge, face-slapping, or angst.

3. I'm terrible at writing blurbs. This story has many original details and is not based on anything real.

4. This is my own worldbuilding, entirely fictional. You don't have to tell me if you drop the story. While it's being serialized, I don't read comments except those attached to red-envelope gifts. Thank you for your support, dear readers.

Pre-release blurb:

After transmigrating, Li Huaien becomes the sixth prince of Great Qi. His adoptive mother is his father's cousin and a high-ranking consort, while her maternal family holds important positions at court.

His birth mother may be lowborn, but she is an "upgraded" substitute with eighty percent of the looks of his father's one true love.

With both status and favor on his side, he has attracted attention since birth and is considered a leading contender in the struggle for the throne.

But his father is still young,

and could easily have a dozen more children.

Moreover, the crown prince, born at the risk of his beloved consort's life, has an excellent reputation.

Unless he makes a grave mistake, his position is as secure as a mountain.

When Li Huaien first arrives, he thinks it would be nice to get along with his second brother, the future emperor,

and eventually become an idle vassal prince with a wealthy fief.

Then one day, he discovers that he's being livestreamed in real time to a future world thousands of years ahead.

To the people of that world, this era has already become what they call "history." As for Li Huaien, he's just a hopelessly stupid vassal prince, a cannon-fodder character

who will pick the wrong side, be purged by the new emperor, and meet a miserable end.

Li Huaien: I'll get out as soon as I'm of age. I'll be a wealthy, carefree prince and stay out of the power struggle.

Nearly thirty years pass. The crown prince is deposed after arousing the emperor's suspicions,

while Li Huaien's other brothers live in fear every day.

Their father grows old and even more suspicious.

The fight for the throne has made brothers turning against brothers an everyday occurrence,

and everything has changed beyond recognition.

And Li Huaien?

"Don't bother me. I'm about to claim new territory so the people under my rule can have more land to farm!"

The other princes all think the sixth prince will waste his life in his fief.

Even the viewers who've been watching the livestream pay no attention to the channel in this most obscure corner.

But who could have guessed that this unremarkable livestream would become the viewers' favorite, leaving all the others behind?

Viewers: What do you mean, hopelessly stupid? Our sixth prince is wise in his own way!

Through messages on the livestream, the sixth prince discovers a new continent with crops that yield a thousand jin per mu!

After driving out the pirates, he builds a new salt-drying center there, transforming impoverished Nanyue into a land of plenty!

Then he expands his territory further, and somehow Nanyue ends up nearly as large as Great Qi's original heartland?

In the end, a secret letter hidden behind the plaque in the main hall places the throne in the sixth prince's hands.

The other princes panic, afraid that the sixth prince has changed.

But the new emperor, who only wants to focus on development, bundles them all off to the newly expanded territory!

Since you're all so idle, you're all going to work for me!

Everything else is empty talk. Getting down to work is what matters most!

Theme: A better life is something we create for ourselves