A Farmer’s Son Takes the Imperial Exams

Qin Heng, a modern office worker, unexpectedly transmigrates into a poor farming family and becomes a frail, sickly young man. The family has barely a roof over its head, his parents toil day and night, and his siblings are still too young to fend for themselves. With little hope for the future, he can only seize his one lifeline: the imperial examinations! Watch as this farmer's son draws on his ahead-of-his-time knowledge and hard work to make his way from the fields to the county-level examinations, progressing from licentiate to scholar, provincial graduate, and finally palace graduate, overcoming every obstacle to earn a place on the honors list. Through the cut and thrust of the examinations and the ups and downs of officialdom, he never forgets his original purpose. He leads his family and neighbors toward prosperity, eventually becoming a renowned minister whose name goes down in history.