[BOOK 02/MTL] After Dressing Up as The Poor Wife of The Number One Scholar,..

Title: After Dressing Up as The Poor Wife of The Number One Scholar, She Had an Affair With a Villain (穿成狀元糟糠妻後，和反派茍合了)
Writer: Qing Shan You Ci (青山有辭)
Novel Type: Time travel; rebirth

DESCRIPTION

Liu Zhiheng, a geologist and scientist, suddenly finds herself transmigrated into a novel-becoming the tragic, discarded wife of the zhuangyuan [top scholar in the imperial exam]. To make matters worse, she has the unfortunate fate of a "jiangjiang physique" [a body constitution that naturally produces high-quality soy sauce, symbolizing that she is doomed to be sidelined and used].

Determined to escape her doomed role as a "soy sauce-making tool" and to change her family's miserable fate, Liu Zhiheng makes a bold move on a stormy night-she rescues the novel's greatest villain, Yan Wang [Prince Yan], Duan Wujiu, and brings him home, attempting to alter key plot points.

Unexpectedly, after losing his memory, the villain turns into a hopeless romantic, clinging to her every day like a devoted and loyal big wolfdog...

But soon, Duan Wujiu regains his memory and returns to his role as the villain. This time, he extends an olive branch to Liu Zhiheng:

"One day, I will make the world remember the name Liu Zhiheng-a woman who tirelessly seeks knowledge, who understands the heavens above and the earth below, a true national scholar greater than any man."

...

Later, Liu Zhiheng truly becomes revered as the female sage of her era. Her students fill the imperial court, and grateful commoners even build ancestral temples in her honor...

Yet, Duan Wujiu begins to regret it.

Why does everyone want to steal his wife?!