My Husband’s Exam Stand-In: I Became the Chancellor’s Illegitimate Son

A poor scholar takes the wrong person’s place in an exam and ends up posing as a chancellor’s illegitimate son. To his amazement, he becomes the top scholar!

The real son trips him up, his chancellor father clashes with him politically, and the emperor finds him amusing and promotes him like crazy.

Lin Wenyuan keeps his exam fraud a secret while using his real abilities to wreak havoc in officialdom: taking on salt merchants, berating corrupt scholars, and running his political enemies in circles.

He was only supposed to coast through life, so how did he become a top-tier star at court?

The day his identity is exposed, he pulls out the imperial sword: “Who says a fake son can’t become a high-ranking official?”