A Good-for-Nothing From the Apocalypse Travels to Ancient Times: Ace the Exams and Lift the Whole Family

Xiao Yan was a good-for-nothing in the apocalypse who died a tragic, unexpected death and transmigrated to ancient times.

What awaited him? A shabby farmhouse with a leaky roof and missing tiles...

A spineless father, an honest mother, young siblings, and a version of himself who had starved to death.

A hellish start from the very beginning?

No problem. He had a mobile warehouse and a photographic memory.

These two abilities, dismissed as useless in the apocalypse, could help him rise to great heights here.

Poor and bullied?

He used the knowledge in his warehouse to guide his parents toward prosperity.

Want to humiliate him at a poetry gathering?

He made a name for himself with one poem, “Chrysanthemums After Failing the Imperial Exam”!

Later, many renowned scholars would praise it as a quatrain destined to be remembered for a thousand years.

His smug uncle used his scholar degree, earned at the age of twenty, to lord it over him at every turn?

Xiao Yan resolved to pursue the imperial examinations. A scholar at nine, a provincial graduate at twelve, and top of all six examinations, he went straight into government!

His essay, “A Discussion of New Policies,” shook the court.

When his uncle heard of it, his resolve crumbled, and he never advanced beyond the scholar degree.

As for Xiao Yan...

He could govern the realm with his pen and defend it with his sword.

He reformed the Da Feng Dynasty’s corrupt policies, and the emperor slammed his hand on the table and appointed him chief councilor in an unprecedented move.

Endless famine and an empty treasury?

Chief Councilor Xiao opened the granaries and distributed grain, putting down the unrest.

The Xiongnu invaded the northern frontier?

Chief Councilor Xiao made firearms and land mines, then rushed to the border to turn the tide!

His achievements eclipsed the emperor’s, and the emperor grew wary.

Want to kill him?

Xiao Yan: “Then I’ll tear down this imperial city and take the throne myself!!!”