The Little Husband and His Lazy Husband [Imperial Examinations]

The Liang family, the wealthiest merchants in Haizhou, were confiscated and bankrupted by the authorities. Liang Qingyun went from being the most esteemed young master of the ge'er to a destitute street beggar.

Liang Qingyun had a handsome face, but he was proud by nature and refused to back down even when humiliated. When debt collectors came after him, he would rather die than yield. Just as he was about to die...

Li Wenxin saved him.

Li Wenxin looked young and strong. Most importantly, he knew how to keep proper boundaries and never overstepped. The more Liang Qingyun looked at him, the more he liked him. Besides, he had nowhere else to turn.

Liang Qingyun latched onto him.

Li Wenxin was a geography student who had transmigrated here. Before transmigrating, he had been fretting over his final exams. After transmigrating, he looked at his muscular body and decided he wasn't cut out for studying. He wasn't much good at hunting either, but he could make little traps to catch small game. And since he had some strength, he could get by well enough.

One day, while he was out selling game, he came across Liang Qingyun surrounded by a group of vicious ruffians. Liang Qingyun didn't ask him for help, but Li Wenxin saw the stubbornness on that pretty face, wet with tears, and, as if under a spell, saved him.

After rescuing him, Li Wenxin went to sell his game. The shopkeeper offered only fifty coins for a fine pheasant, and Li Wenxin actually accepted. Liang Qingyun was furious. He immediately began haggling with the shopkeeper, and in the end the pheasant sold for eighty coins.

Li Wenxin stared in amazement at the eighty copper coins in his hand. Liang Qingyun glanced at him and said:

That's what you get for being uneducated.

Liang Qingyun told him to stay, promising that from then on they would only make more money.

Li Wenxin thought about it and agreed.

Ge'ers and men weren't allowed to live together, so at Liang Qingyun's suggestion, Li Wenxin married him. Li Wenxin had no improper intentions toward him, and Liang Qingyun didn't seem to have any either. One handled the accounts, the other went hunting, and their lives kept getting better.

But Liang Qingyun seemed troubled.

One day, Li Wenxin asked him, "Qingyun, you seem to have something on your mind."

Liang Qingyun said, "Li Wenxin, would you become an official?"

Li Wenxin was horrified. Become an official? Wouldn't that mean taking the imperial exams? He thought back to the eighteen years he'd spent studying before transmigrating. The imperial exams...

But when he looked up and saw the reluctance and disappointment on Liang Qingyun's pretty face, Li Wenxin gritted his teeth. "I'll study."

Later, Li Wenxin became Chancellor Li and brought Liang Qingyun to live in a grand mansion. They no longer had to worry about being bullied into bankruptcy by the authorities and powerful families. Liang Qingyun smiled, and seeing him happy made Li Wenxin happy too.

Theme: Study hard.