Dad, Keep Striving: Even the Geese Have Earned Noble Titles

Tang Li awakened memories of her past life at the age of eight and discovered that her family were cannon fodder in a novel. Her second uncle Tang Zheng, who lived next door, was the male lead of an imperial-examination novel: hardworking, studious, and exceptionally clever. In four years, he would become the youngest person in the Great Jin Dynasty to earn top honors in all three examinations, marry a commandery princess, and achieve unmatched fame. The family genealogy would even devote a page to him alone. Her father, Tang Xun, was his foil: a lazy glutton who used all his intelligence to figure out how to wheedle money from Grandma. In the end, he would squander the family fortune, get the whole family thrown out of their home to beg for a living, and watch his second brother return in glory with his princess wife. A System for Raising a Virtuous Empress appeared out of nowhere and told her that if she wanted to change her family’s fate, she had to improve herself and become a girl renowned far and wide for being perfect in every way. Then she would be chosen by the imperial family to become empress and lead her branch of the family to prosperity. A perfect virtuous empress had to possess talents no less impressive than the top scholar’s, and know everything from astronomy to geography. She also had to be an outstanding cook, able to win anyone’s heart through food. She had to master medicine, too, and be able to bring the dead back to life and restore even bones to flesh. … Tang Li looked at the System’s daily study schedule, which called for eight shichen of lessons, and shivered. Instead of pushing herself, she might as well push her parents. Tang Li promptly bound the System to her father. To avoid being struck by lightning, Tang Xun, formerly a lazy glutton, was forced to get up before dawn to study, learn cooking and medicine, and work himself to the bone. So when her second uncle next door became a provincial graduate, Tang Li’s father won over a delegation from the steppe with his cooking, resolved a century-old feud between the two countries, and was enfeoffed as a count. When her second uncle became the top scholar, Tang Li’s father had already become a prefect, leading the people under his jurisdiction to develop mulberry-dike fish ponds and grow rich. When her second uncle married the commandery princess, Tang Li’s father had already cured the princess’s father of a chronic illness and become his sworn brother. When her second uncle was diligently compiling books, Tang Li’s father had already become famous throughout the realm for improving the spinning wheel and inventing bamboo paper. Living in a sprawling four-courtyard mansion and wearing the beautiful dresses her father made for her, Tang Li sighed, “As long as my parents work hard enough, I can start ahead of everyone else.” Plan: success.jpg No matter how tough things get, don’t make the children suffer! Thanks to my workaholic father, even the horses, geese, and dogs in our household have been granted noble titles! P.S. The original male lead is not vilified. Thanks to my bestie Zhankong for making the cover for me~ … Coming soon. If you like these, feel free to add them to your reading list. "I Pass Through All Kinds of Stories as a Maid" Xie Yuanying transmigrates into the body of the personal maid to the third young miss of the Duke of Xian’s household. Unfortunately, her luck is terrible. All three young ladies are heroines of tragic romance novels, destined to suffer horrific abuse before dying, taking the likes of her, the background characters, down with them. The eldest miss is a scapegoat for the emperor’s beloved in a palace-intrigue novel. She draws the hatred of the entire harem, and after she is killed, the emperor is so heartbroken that he finally realizes who he truly loves. He then keeps three thousand beauties in his harem to remember her by. The second miss is a tragic stand-in for the beloved woman in a substitute-lover story. Soon, her heart’s blood will be extracted to serve as medicine for the female supporting character, kicking off the male lead’s redemption arc. The third miss she serves had someone else claim credit for saving her life. Her husband’s true love is a jade pendant: he loves whoever owns it. The third miss will be beaten to death with a hundred strokes of the rod. The young master… Well, he’s just an ordinary passerby who dies young. We can PASS on him. … To prevent the Duke’s household from meeting a total wipeout ending, Xie Yuanying has no choice but to diligently put an end to the plot. Overnight, she makes the emperor’s true love known to the whole world, leaving him and his beloved in such a panic that they have no time for anything else. In order to “set the record straight,” they have no choice but to shower the Duke’s household with one reward after another. She gives the second miss a battle-worn makeup look and uses pig’s blood in place of heart’s blood. One bowl of heart’s blood isn’t enough? For just 999 taels, take home ten bowls! Just before the third miss is about to be beaten a hundred times and drop her jade pendant, Xie Yuanying grabs it and shouts, “Miss, your pendant is right here!” She brings a hundred chapters of plot to an early end. Finally, she swaps the young master’s poison into the hands of the villain plotting against the Duke’s household. Xie Yuanying looks up at the sky and sighs. This Duke’s household would have been done for without her! … After Xie Yuanying has accomplished her mission and is preparing to retire, the villain who somehow survived kidnaps her. The villain gives her two choices: die, or get on board with the rebels. Xie Yuanying smashes the villain over the head and immediately chooses to pull off his mask. Beneath it is the young master’s rather disheveled face. Xie Yuanying: ??? You should have told me you were planning a rebellion! I would have jumped on board myself! I’ve wanted to smash those scumbag men’s heads for ages! Theme: Stay true to yourself and never give up