/Also known as: After Becoming the Comparison Fiancée in an Imperial Exam Novel, I Raised the Villainous Future Chief Minister
/Imperial exam novel
Blurb:
Shi Yingying transmigrates into an imperial exam novel as the fiancée who serves as a foil to the villain. The original owner was a gold-digger who broke off the engagement when the villain failed the exams, then switched her affections to the male lead. She met a miserable end.
When Shi Yingying arrives, the engagement-breaking letter has just been handed to the future chief minister. The young man is desperately poor, his face pale and his eyes frighteningly cold.
Shi Yingying grits her teeth and tears up the letter. “I’m not breaking off our engagement. I’ll support you.”
She uses all her savings to fund Zhao Yanchu’s studies, opens a shop, pursues her education, and takes on unreasonable relatives.
Everyone laughs at her for betting on the wrong person.
Until the results are posted and Zhao Yanchu comes top in the provincial exams, then welcomes her into his home with a grand bridal procession.
After their marriage, he rises through the ranks to become chief minister, but he always bites her ear at night and asks, “Why didn’t you break off our engagement back then?”
Shi Yingying looks at the manuscript hidden beneath his pillow, every page covered with her name.
She thinks: In my last life, he turned dark because his engagement was broken off. This time I didn’t break it off, and he seems... even more unhinged.
*The male lead seems like a cool, detached scholar, but is actually an obsessive black-lotus type. In both lives, he only ever wants one wife.
Theme: Work with your own hands to build a happy life.
