Reborn as a Fool, I Married a Husband

When wealthy farmer Li Daniu kicked the bucket, he left behind a village beauty for a wife and a dim-witted son.

After that, the once gentle and sweet village beauty became a shrew known throughout the surrounding villages. With a cleaver and a chopping board, she chopped and cursed all day, never repeating an insult, driving off the restless old bachelors and the greedy, scheming wives of her husband's brothers.

Only late at night would she shed her prickly armor and hold her sleeping son as she wept. My child, how can you be such a fool...

Li Hui, who had just transmigrated into a body with the same name: Huh? Who are you calling a fool?

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After his consciousness awakened, Li Hui realized he had transmigrated into the book The Road to the Imperial Exams for the Poor, but not as the protagonist. He was the foil: a fool who died young.

Li Hui, who had always come second in exams and considered anything less than first a setback, sneered. The road to the imperial exams for the poor? Then everyone here, make way. I'm about to go all out.

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The villagers all said the Li family had struck it lucky. Li Hui fell into a pond and somehow got cured of his foolishness. Not only was he now sharp as a monkey, he had even surpassed his cousin Li Yan and become the village's first xiucai. His mother was so delighted that even her cursing came with a tune~

The villagers secretly hoped that the young scholar would break off his engagement to the little mute boy from the west end of the village. After all, it had only ever been a joke:

The foolish Li Hui had said, Mom, I want to marry the boy from the west end of the village! He's handsome! He likes me! He comes all the way to see me every day!

But they waited and waited, until the young scholar had become a top-ranked graduate, and not only did he fail to break off the engagement, he married the little mute in grand style. Before long, they even had a child!

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Zhang Xixi was born at the west end of the village. His birth mother died young, his father ignored him, and even his stepmother remarried and left.

Everyone in the village knew this deaf-mute, but no one was willing to pay him any attention.

But the truth was, he wasn't mute. No one ever spoke to him.

He was a little deaf, unable to hear most sounds.

So every day, he hurried to the east end of the village to listen to Auntie Li curse people out. Her words were a bit crude, but her voice was lovely and she was loud.

Later, Auntie Li came to ask for his hand in marriage for her son, saying she would be his mother.

Zhang Xixi, who had grown up without a mother and loved listening to her speak: Hooray!

Much later, Li Hui accidentally heard the real reason behind the marriage: ? I'm shattered.

Theme: Growing through adversity.