After Marrying a Poor Scholar's Daughter, My Son Passed the Imperial Exams and Rose to Power

【Alternate world + a common-born son’s rise + imperial examinations + farming】 Zhao Ce transmigrates to Great Yan and becomes the young master of a landowning family. He thinks he can start a life of wealth and privilege, only to discover that he is an unloved concubine-born son. His legitimate eldest brother, Zhao Qian, is exceptionally capable and adored by everyone. Zhao Ce takes it in stride. The Zhao family is rich, after all, so being a laid-back concubine-born son who can eat his fill and wait around to die doesn’t sound too bad. But it turns out that the Zhao family once arranged a betrothal between their children and another great clan, the Su family. Now the Su family has fallen on hard times. The Zhaos want to break off the engagement, but fear being branded as people who don’t keep their word. Still, how could their esteemed eldest son, Zhao Qian, with his boundless prospects, marry a girl from a poor family? And so the marriage lands on Zhao Ce’s shoulders. Forced to marry Su Yunjin, the daughter of the Su family head, in his brother’s place, Zhao Ce has barely tied the knot when his biased father rushes to divide the family’s property. Zhao Qian receives ten thousand mu of fertile land and countless businesses, while Zhao Ce gets nothing but a rundown little courtyard. Just when Zhao Ce thinks his luck couldn’t get any worse, he discovers, to his delight on his wedding day, that his new bride is breathtakingly beautiful, gentle, virtuous, and wonderfully caring. Determined to give his treasure of a wife a good life, Zhao Ce earns money to support the family while studying hard. In the end, he changes his fate completely through the imperial examinations and becomes a powerful minister of his age. This is the story of a concubine-born son cast aside by his family, who rises step by step to become a warlord in troubled times and a powerful court official, beginning a legendary life!