Reborn: A Merchant’s Daughter’s Rise to the Highest Ranks

In this era, taking the civil service exam is a way for women to improve their prospects in the marriage market, and it is all the rage.

Though it is like trying to cross a single-plank bridge amid a thousand troops, passing the exam really can turn your life around overnight and help you shed the stain of your humble background (crossed out: your poor family). No wonder countless women yearn for it.

A civil servant's salary is low? No matter, your husband's family will support you later.

Female officials have no path to promotion? No matter, you work nine to five. Having a job is enough.

Courtly power struggles are men's business.

A little woman has no place fighting on the front lines.

And a change of emperor has nothing to do with a lowly female official.

That was what Bai Qingshi used to think, too.