From the Civil Service Exams to the Downfall of Corrupt Ministers

“Orphan Lin Mo is reborn into a farming family. His father died at the dike, his mother is frail, and his little sister is young. Village bully Wang Ergou comes around every few days to extort them, while clan elder Lin Fusheng turns a blind eye, favoring his own kin instead of standing up for what’s right! Eleven-year-old Shen Congwen rubs his growling stomach, and the mind of a former investment banking hotshot suddenly springs to life. I can recite the county exam essays from memory, and I’ll take an unconventional approach to the prefectural exam classics. As for the palace exam... Watch me use data analysis and logical reasoning to trample those musty examiners and spoiled young masters underfoot! In this life, I’ll make sure my little sister gets a new padded jacket and my mother lives in a brick house. And I’ll climb from lowly student all the way to the throne room, right over the backs of treacherous ministers!”