The Rise of a Poor Scholar

(Farming + commerce + heroine + imperial examinations + humble origins)

One day, Xu Rang transmigrates to an alternate dynasty and becomes a pedantic student who has yet to pass the lowest-level imperial examination.

At home, he has a tearful, scatterbrained mother, while his two beautiful older sisters have caught the eye of wicked men.

His younger brother and sister are sickly, and he is saddled with a mountain of debt.

His assets: two acres of uncultivated wasteland and a dilapidated thatched hut that looks ready to collapse in the wind.

Unlike others, Xu Rang doesn’t transmigrate as a prince, emperor, or wealthy heir. He becomes an impoverished scholar in a tiny mountain village, with nothing but bare walls at home.

He gets Hard Mode from the start, but fortunately, after one night’s sleep, a magical System appears.

“What, you’re in debt? Hint: the hill behind the village.”

Xu Rang cheerfully digs up a hundred-year-old ginseng root.

“What, you can’t remember things?”

“Complete a task to earn a photographic memory, and breeze through the imperial examinations!”

“What, the maid has been kidnapped?”

“Don’t put up with that! Hurry and get her back, and I’ll reward you with a glittering treasure!”

To obtain the System’s incredible rewards, Xu Rang has to work hard in this unfamiliar era. He leads his whole family, young and old, into business to earn silver, then takes the imperial examinations and heads to the capital. In this world where men rule over women, romance blooms all around him, and he rises all the way to the pinnacle of life, where he marries a lovely wife!