Quick Transmigration: The Love Rescue Plan

Dong Qianyue was knocked unconscious by a ball as soon as she entered the body.

When Dong Qianyue woke up, she was on a wooden bed covered with a thin mattress. She did not open her eyes immediately but kept them closed to receive the plot.

Dong Qianyue is currently in the world of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai, and the body she possesses belongs to the daughter of Zhu's wife's cousin.

That's right, this time Dong Qianyue has possessed the body of Zhu Yingtai's cousin.

The story is currently at its beginning. In the original story, Zhu Yingtai, along with Yin Xin and a group of maids, were playing football in the courtyard. The fiery-tempered Zhu Yingtai noticed a servant spying outside and kicked the ball at him.

Later, the ball got stuck on a tree branch. Yin Xin climbed up the tree and threw the ball down. From there, Yin Xin told Zhu Yingtai what had happened.

Zhu Yingtai was so angry that she kicked the ball out to teach the people outside a lesson, but unexpectedly it hit Master Zhu—Zhu Gongyuan.

This is what actually happened.

However, in this new storyline, there is an additional cousin of Zhu Yingtai—Dong Zhixin, so the person who gets hit by the ball becomes Dong Zhixin, who has come to visit the Zhu family.

Dong Zhixin did not get up immediately, but instead looked at the target of the mission. The love that needed to be saved this time was not Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai, but Ma Wencai, who was innocently implicated.

After watching the original story, Dong Zhixin also felt that Ma Wencai was a very pitiful person. It was clearly the Zhu family who wanted to climb the social ladder and get close to the Ma family, and Ma Wencai genuinely appreciated Zhu Yingtai's uniqueness.

Furthermore, in today's society, marriage between men and women is traditionally arranged by parents and matchmakers.

What kind of forceful seduction is Ma Wencai? He went through all the formalities of marriage, from the three letters of introduction to the six rites of marriage, from the three matchmakers to the six betrothal gifts, and the Zhu family accepted them all. In the end, he was willing to die for some so-called true love.

If the marriage was just a verbal agreement, then Zhu Yingtai could simply refuse to marry him. But since all the formalities had been completed, Zhu Yingtai wanted to break off the engagement.

Do the Ma family still care about their reputation? Do Magistrate Ma still care about his reputation?

They became a beautiful love story of being together even in death, defying societal norms, while Ma Wencai became a typical example of someone who destroys others' relationships and forcibly takes what isn't his.

Ma Wencai was the son of Magistrate Ma, and he was proficient in both literature and military strategy. It would be easy for him to find a woman to marry, and he would not need to resort to force or robbery.

Ultimately, they were kept in the dark from the beginning. If Ma Wencai had known from the start that Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai were secretly engaged, he wouldn't have gone through all the formalities of matchmaking and formalities to propose to the Zhu family.

In Dong Zhixin's view, to save Ma Wencai's love life, all she had to do was avoid the pitfall of Zhu Yingtai. With Ma Wencai's family background, talent, and looks, finding a good wife wouldn't be difficult.

This is just the beginning. Zhu Gongyuan has no intention of getting involved with the Ma family yet. He has only arranged a few marriages for his daughter, Zhu Yingtai.

Not long after, Zhu Yingtai's brother, Zhu Wei, would be expelled from the academy and return to the Zhu family, which led Zhu Yingtai to decide to disguise herself as a man and go to school in her brother's place.

Dong Zhixin doesn't intend to stop Zhu Yingtai from disguising herself as a man to attend school. After all, this is the world of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai, and their love story is the main theme.

Even if Dong Zhixin wanted to stop Zhu Yingtai from going to school disguised as a boy, she probably wouldn't succeed.

After all, compared to Zhu Wei, Zhu Yingtai was intelligent and loved reading from a young age. It was a pity that she was born a girl, otherwise the task of passing the imperial examinations for the Zhu family would have fallen on Zhu Yingtai.

Since Zhu Yingtai was able to disguise herself as a man without being discovered by Zhu Gongyuan, Zhu Gongyuan would certainly not let this opportunity pass.

After all, since ancient times, passing the imperial examinations has been the greatest wish of all merchant families.

This strong desire was far greater than that of the peasants, even though the merchants were wealthy but lacked social standing.

The social hierarchy is: scholars, farmers, artisans, and merchants. To put it bluntly, merchants, despite having money, lack social status and are the least respected.

Although passing the imperial examination at the county level did not grant one an official position, it did grant one academic renown and entry into the scholar-official class.

Scholars who passed the imperial examinations were exempt from corvée labor, were not required to kneel before the prefect, and were not subject to arbitrary torture.

The scholars who received stipends from the imperial court not only received monthly rations, but could also act as guarantors for other scholars in the county and prefectural examinations, ensuring that they had no questionable backgrounds or engaged in impersonation or cheating.

The fee for a student to act as a guarantor is two to five taels of silver per person. It should be noted that the county and prefectural examinations require five people to act as guarantors. Even if it is only two taels of silver per person, a student can earn ten taels of silver by acting as a guarantor once.

The county and prefectural examinations are held twice a year, and a student who takes the imperial examination can earn at least forty taels of silver a year.

Don't assume that businessmen make a lot of money. A businessman with no money, power, or background might not even make as much as a scholar.

Besides, even the wealthiest merchants have to kneel before officials, so how could they be as amazing as a scholar?

Anyway, it would be great if the Zhu family could produce a scholar.

This is exactly the kind of plot you only see in TV dramas and mythological romance dramas.

The idea of ​​a female imperial consort, a female top scholar, or Zhu Yingtai taking the imperial examination in place of her brother is something that would never have happened in real ancient times.

Not to mention the body search before entering the examination room, the documents didn't even match up when entering the examination hall.

That document can be understood as a modern examination admission ticket, except that modern examination admission tickets have a photo attached and also include the candidate's name, age, ethnicity, ID number, and examination admission ticket number.

Invigilators verify that the candidate's appearance matches the information on their ID card and admission ticket, and use fingerprint verification to confirm that the candidate is the person on their ID card.

Such advanced technology didn't exist in ancient times, but others weren't stupid either.

The imperial examination was arguably the only way for ordinary people to climb the social ladder. If it were really that easy, it would be easy to cheat or have someone else take the exam for you.

The first to rebel were not students from poor families, but members of powerful clans!

Before the imperial examination system, the path to officialdom was controlled by powerful and influential families.

To put it bluntly, the imperial examination system harmed the interests of powerful families. If cheating and proxy test-taking were to occur so easily, these families would magnify the flaws of the examination system and petition the emperor to abolish it.

However, Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai is a mythical love story, so we shouldn't think about it according to common sense.

Otherwise, why would everyone have gone along with Zhu Yingtai's antics, disguising herself as a man to take the imperial examinations, pass the exams, and even have Zhu Wei become an official? This is a crime of deceiving the emperor, punishable by the extermination of nine generations of one's family.

Even if Zhu Gongyuan were mentally unstable, he wouldn't dare gamble on not being discovered, would he?

Even if Ma Wencai loved Zhu Yingtai, he wouldn't risk his future to help her cover it up, would he?

Even if Dingxiang admired Zhu Yingtai greatly, she wouldn't help her hide it from her father, would she? After all, if the truth came out, her father, as the headmaster, would also be held responsible.

In conclusion, don't try to stop Zhu Yingtai from going to school disguised as a man. Just stop Ma Wencai from falling in love with Zhu Yingtai, or let Ma Wencai know about Zhu Yingtai and Liang Shanbo's affair.