Rising Through the Imperial Exams: Changing My Family's Fate
科举兴家：带着全家改换门庭
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- Slice-of-Life Farming
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- After Transmigrating, I Just Want to Land a Stable Government Job穿越后只想考个铁饭碗Alternate title on Fanqie
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Five stars! It's so well-written! The protagonist was almost smothered to death by his second older sister during his third-day celebration after birth. And then the author goes on to redeem this second sister—it's truly well-written; a protagonist who is genuinely good and kind.
This is a great book! When the male protagonist was born, his second sister tried to smother him with a blanket. Later, the protagonist even spoke well of his sister without any disgust; he's practically a saint!
The older sister, who was instigated as a child to suffocate the male lead, was protected from harm; the male lead forgave her.
It's so-so; the second sister has too much screen time. This is a female-oriented novel, right?
Well written, keep up the good work, and hopefully it will be as wonderful as Sun Shan's book. The exam hasn't even started yet, chapter 300; it's getting a bit tedious.
The supporting characters are well-developed; each character's strengths and weaknesses are clearly defined, and they all feel quite realistic. Overall, it's a good show, but the pacing is a bit slow, the main character is too young, and there's not enough depiction of their studies and the imperial examinations.
Overall, the author's style is realistic. The protagonist, a modern high-achieving student, finds himself in the mire of an ancient farming family, relying on diligence and wisdom to gradually rise from the fields to the path of the imperial examinations. There are no cheat codes; he is a clear-headed and pragmatic transmigrator, surviving and breaking through in an ancient farming family.
Five stars because this is the only book I've seen on the entire Tomato website where the protagonist is poor but focused on studying, with his parents paying for his education—this feels realistic. Also, the fact that he doesn't need an education to have a bunch of high-ranking officials and wealthy people rushing to help him is a minor flaw.
I've read over 800 chapters so far, and overall it's quite interesting. This is the first time I've seen a protagonist who transmigrates to ancient times and fails the imperial examinations. Interestingly, the protagonist's marriages to both of his sisters are obtained through burglary. The book has a mix of mundane, everyday scenes, subtle foreshadowing, and dramatic twists and turns.
I watched a bit, and actually I had higher expectations for the second sister than for the male lead. It's said that the second sister wanted to kill the male lead, but she was only five or six years old at the time and didn't have a sense of right and wrong. She only knew that because of her brother's arrival, her mother hadn't paid attention to her and her sister for many days.