The Male Lead of the Imperial Exam Novel Is My Brother

Ning Xiaoyuan transmigrated into an imperial-examination novel as the male lead's stepsister.

Her mother had been a widow in the village. She remarried and brought Ning Xiaoyuan along to become the male lead's stepmother, and had just given birth to a chubby baby boy.

Ning Xiaoyuan knew that once her mother recovered, she would start stirring up trouble. From then on, she would do everything she could to keep the male lead from studying, ruin his prospects, and drive a wedge between him and his father, cementing her reputation as a wicked stepmother. She would push him until he became a ruthless, cold-hearted obsessive. Then, after his father died, he would kill the mother and daughter in a gruesome fashion.

Ning Xiaoyuan knew money was the root of it all. Raising a scholar was simply too expensive for a rural family.

So Ning Xiaoyuan decided to try a few small business ventures with her mother first.

Who would have thought her mother would become the richest woman in the region, Madam Gongsun?

Her stepbrother's studies went smoothly, and he became the disciple of a great Confucian scholar. Ning Xiaoyuan was about to settle into a carefree life.

But why was that villain coming to ask for her hand in marriage? Had he eaten so many of her braised pork knuckles and steamed fish over the years that his mind had gone soft from all the grease? In the original story, the villain was the most status-conscious of them all. Wasn't he waiting to be picked up by a powerful family after the imperial examinations?

(Backed up online on July 1, 2023.)

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