After My Divorce, I Made a Life for Myself Through the Imperial Exams

【Transmigration + imperial examinations + farming + historical setting】 (We can’t transmigrate for nothing. Our protagonist has to stand up for the people and help them live better lives, too.) The male lead’s parents were childless for three years after their wedding, then found him in the mountains. At first, they treated Gu Beichuan quite well. But once they had a biological child of their own, they stopped treating him like a person, beating and cursing him every day. Then famine struck, and the Gu family treated Gu Beichuan even worse. They sold ten-year-old Gu Beichuan to a wealthy family as a child husband for five taels of silver. The only reason was that the wealthy family’s only daughter was gravely ill, and they wanted a wedding to bring her good fortune. Later, the young lady miraculously recovered, but she took an instant dislike to Gu Beichuan. When he was sixteen, she framed him for being caught in bed with a maid, and he was divorced. Fortunately, in this dynasty, both men and women could establish their own households after a divorce. The day he was kicked out, the original owner couldn’t bear the humiliation. Then Gu Beichuan arrived… He knew no one in this dynasty, had no family, and had no idea how to survive. Oh, well. Taking the imperial examinations was his only way out…