Born into the Late Ming: A Refugee Studies for the Imperial Exams

In 2024, a bickering couple transmigrate together into a poor farming family in the late Ming dynasty.

The reason? They were chasing after the sweetheart from their youth.

And so the husband and wife from their previous lives, along with the other woman, suddenly become siblings born to the same parents.

Their tangled feelings persist, but finding enough to eat becomes the real priority.

Knowing their fortunes are bound to turn sour, they have no choice but to abandon home and livelihood and set off ahead of the coming famine.

But if you’re both heading far from home, how is it that you end up settling down, buying fields, building a fortune, and passing the imperial examinations along the way?

A few years later, bandits run rampant and the Tartars wreak havoc, laying waste to the Central Plains.

Zhang Wenxing wears an embroidered robe and jade belt, commands a mighty army, and holds the region in check.

But after all his success and fame, he brings her a cup of “forgetfulness water” he has treasured for years and says, his voice thick with emotion: “May all the rich in the world end up as brother and sister!”