🔥The Top Scholar of the Imperial Exams🔥 A flower thief? A live-in son-in-law?
A burned-out office worker dies suddenly and transmigrates to ancient times. One moment, he is on the streets of Shanghai, getting stabbed while trying to help someone; the next, he has awakened in the body of a poor farmer's son and been forced to sign a contract selling himself into service.
A house with nothing in it, a bully at the door, and villagers mocking him would be bad enough. But the lady of the house is as cold as ice and thinks even looking at him is beneath her.
Worse still, he has barely arrived when the previous occupant kicks the bucket after failing to sneak into her bed in the middle of the night, leaving him to clean up the mess and take the blame...
❄️ The icy lady of the house thinks he's ugly?
🔪 A local tyrant wants to take her away?
🌾 The whole village laughs because he can't farm?
Gu Yanwen slaps the table. “You want to steal my woman? I'll send you three thousand li away to rot in jail.”
“Think I'm useless? I'm a modern postgraduate in Chinese Language and Literature. You think I can't outwork a bunch of ancients?”
“Even a dog wouldn't be a live-in son-in-law? Fine, I'll do it, and I'll do it every which way!”
Study! Take the imperial exams! Become an official!
He'll show them all what it means when they say, “Thirty years east of the river, thirty years west of the river. Never look down on a poor young man!”
But as he finally makes his way toward the imperial examinations, he gradually discovers that the beautiful lady of the house is hiding a shocking secret. Princes of the current dynasty, remnants of the previous court, and frontier cavalry are all drawn into this seemingly ordinary farming family's game of chess.
[Living off his wife but holding his own √] [Political intrigue and power-ups √] [Twists and face-slapping √] [Romantic tension √]
See how a modern office worker makes his comeback in ancient times, taking the imperial exams with one hand and protecting his wife with the other, rising from a farmhand to the pinnacle of power!
“My lady, actually, I was sent down from heaven as the Star of Literature.”
“Oh? Then plow the field first.”
“...”
Keywords: transmigration, imperial examinations, rise from humble beginnings, beautiful widow, political intrigue, farming, feel-good power fantasy
