The Eldest Daughter of a Farming Family Takes Her Sister to the Imperial Exams

Half a month after transmigrating, heiress Chen Ziyuan decided to live a quiet life in ancient times.

Even though her original self was the childhood betrothed of the transmigrated male protagonist in The Peasant Family's First-Rank Minister: Helping the Princess Become Emperor Through the Imperial Exams, and died to make room for him after a high-ranking official took an interest in his talent.

Thinking about the plot, Chen Ziyuan looked at the little stepsister her stepmother had brought along. In the future, that girl would become a nation-wrecking consort to avenge herself. Chen Ziyuan snatched away the silver her father had planned to spend supporting his future son-in-law's studies. "Instead of throwing money at a son-in-law's education, why not let me study? And my sister too!"

"We'll study and become brilliant women, then find scholars who have earned degrees!"

"They'll bring betrothal gifts, so you won't have to spend a penny. You might even make a profit!"

"Father, calculate the expenses yourself. Arranging a childhood betrothal is bad for our family's fortune!"

Chen Ziyuan spun all sorts of tales and painted a rosy picture. She had meant to break off the engagement, then use the future empress's influence to help her sister focus her intelligence on studying and change the Chen family's fate. But she never expected her sister to be a true genius, becoming a county-level scholar after just three years of study!

The problem was, the princess's women's imperial exam was only an experimental program, not part of the official examinations.

Some people even mocked it as a sinecure created just to fill a quota.

Furious, Chen Ziyuan rolled up her sleeves and returned to her old trade: she opened a tutoring school, then one for girls.

If there are few women who study in one family, then the whole county, the whole prefecture...

All women will study, take the imperial exams together, and compete for the rankings together!

Together, they will shelter all the people beneath the heavens!

Zhaodi had nearly been sold into a brothel by her own father. From the bottom of her heart, she was grateful that Father Chen had spent ten whole taels of silver to buy her.

He got her treated for her illness.

He didn't beat or scold her.

He even gave her a room of her own, so she didn't have to sleep in the pigsty.

He was better than a bodhisattva.

She wanted to become a maid in the Chen household and take good care of Father Chen and his most beloved daughter, Chen Ziyuan. But although the young miss was a little eccentric, she didn't beat or scold Zhaodi either. Sometimes, she even gave her eggs to eat.

She even gave her a lovely name: Chen Zijia.

And she taught her to read and write!

As she studied, Chen Zijia realized she didn't care at all about people calling her a genius who could "remember everything after one glance." All she wanted was to work as hard as she could to give the Chen family a good life. Before long, she even dared to dream bigger: she wanted every girl like her, born to a life of hardship, to have a home of her own!

Theme: Women can make their own place in the world too.