The Bookish Farmer’s Daughter: Back in Ancient Times to Write Stories

Check out Xue Ren’s new novel, Reborn in the 1980s: I Raised the World’s Richest Man

[She builds her fortune by “raising” the male lead. A cunning, beautiful, wild-tempered heroine versus a dark, sickly top student hero]

This novel is also known as Back to Ancient Times to Open a Bookshop, I Was a Top Student in Ancient Times, and Back to Ancient Times to Become a Kindergarten Principal.

With a terrible reputation, an illegitimate child, a house stripped bare, no food to eat, a daughter sold away, a mother sick with worry, and a bullied younger brother, Chuchu is terribly distressed. She transmigrates into the body of someone in this situation. Heaven, are you kidding me?

And on top of that, she’s been saddled with a blunt little girl who gives her mother a hard time, and a precocious, affectionate little dumpling. Chuchu is under even more pressure.

[The art of persuading students]

Chuchu: Young Master Zhao, you’re learned and brilliantly talented. Why are you so fixated on the imperial examinations? Why not write books and essays, and make a name for yourself in history?

Zhao Qingyun sneers: Since when does writing popular fiction count as writing books and essays? Though my family is poor, I, Zhao Qingyun, will not sink so low as to engage in such a disreputable pursuit!

Chuchu smiles: How about a wager? If you can answer the questions I set, we’ll drop the matter, and the bookshop will cover your travel expenses for the examinations. If you can’t, then you’ll write stories for the bookshop. What do you say?

Zhao Qingyun, brimming with confidence: Ask away.

Chuchu keeps smiling and takes out a test paper.

Zhao Qingyun is completely baffled: Fill in the blanks, single choice, multiple choice, true or false, cloze test, explain the terms, reading comprehension...

Chuchu chuckles to herself: I survived decades of exam-oriented education. Surely I can handle you?