The Premium Foil in the Exile Novel!

[Becoming the Foil to a Genius Imperial-Exam Novel's Male Lead]

ID: 11057572

Blurb: Xu Yan'an is the chosen one of The Poor Scholar's Rise: The Chief Minister's Path to Power.

He learned to read at three, wrote poetry at five, and passed the entry-level exams at seven and the county-level exams at ten. Everyone says he's the reincarnation of the Star of Literature. Su Zezhi, meanwhile, is his foil: the foolish Su family boy who can barely speak and can't even recite the Three Character Classic in full.

The Xu and Su families are related, so Xu Yan'an should call Su Zezhi his cousin.

Su Zezhi has transmigrated, and as soon as he does, he realizes he's become the cousin destined to be trampled into the dirt as the foil to the genius male lead of an imperial-exam novel.

According to the plot, the cousins Xu Yan'an and Su Zezhi compete from childhood. Xu Yan'an starts learning to read at three, while Su Zezhi can't read at three and prefers playing in the mud. Xu Yan'an writes poetry at five and is praised as a child prodigy, while Su Zezhi pees in the street at five and is mocked for having a tiny little thing.

Xu Yan'an passes the entry-level exams at seven and the county-level exams at ten, earning praise as the reincarnation of the Star of Literature. Su Zezhi gets into trouble again and again at seven, then burns down his home at ten, earning the title of Demon Star.

Later in the story, Xu Yan'an works hard, eventually places on the imperial examination roll, marries a rich beauty, and reaches the pinnacle of success. As for Su Zezhi, he's done everything a little devil could do. In the end, he gets a date with the executioner's block, his miserable fate serving to highlight Xu Yan'an's glorious life.

Su Zezhi, who just called a forty-year-old woman “Grandma” and a pretty young woman “Big Sister,” rests his chin in his hands and smiles with crinkled eyes. In his previous life, he was known as everyone's sweetheart. Maybe he should keep up the good work in this life and continue being the sweetheart of the kind, understanding big sisters.

Reader's guide:

1. The male lead is everyone's sweetheart, smooth-talking, shamelessly self-serving, and happy to live off others.

2. The male lead won't cross paths with the original male lead. There's more to life than the imperial exams. The original male lead can take his exams while our male lead works on being everyone's sweetheart.

3. A slice-of-life story about family matters and farming.

[Blurb for this novel]

As the leader of the modern-day Lazybones Alliance, elder sister Xu Meng is unusually beautiful, but she's a textbook case of eating everything in sight and being useless at everything she does. Aside from her pretty face, she has no redeeming qualities.

As the leader of the modern-day Troublemakers Alliance, younger brother Xu Gui is unusually good at causing trouble, but he's also exceptionally clever, the kind of kid other parents wish they had. He's smart, but a little terror too: he can set off firecrackers in the latrine and beat up every kid in kindergarten. His specialty is being a menace and causing trouble without a second thought.

One day, this odd pair of siblings transmigrates into a novel about exile, becoming the awful foil to the resilient, kindhearted heroine's family: a strange mother and son who will do anything to survive their exile.

Xu Meng: “Wait, who was the heroine again? Why can't I figure it out?”

Xu Gui: “Wait, who else could the heroine be but you?”

### Reader's guide ###

1. A bizarre pair of siblings with a big age gap transmigrate together and become an awful mother and son.

2. Both siblings have a golden finger: the older sister has a sign-in System, and the younger brother has incredible koi luck!

3. A fictional dynasty, with a setting resembling the mid-to-late Ming dynasty during a Little Ice Age, beset by internal and external troubles!

Theme: In adversity, she blossoms toward the sun!