
From Little Kid to Top Scholar, I Cheat My Way to the Top
从幼童到状元,我一路开挂
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Explore more →Who Deserves to Be Called an Authority in Imperial Examination Stories?
Looking for books like You Were Supposed to Be the Young Master's Page, but You Passed the Imperial Exam for Him (The Poor Scholar Who Placed First). Any gender is fine, as long as it's satisfying and makes sense!
A Top Student Transmigrates to Ancient Times, Passes the Imperial Exams, and Becomes a Great Statesman
Please, I Want a Male Lead in the Imperial Examinations. He Needs to Be Smart, and There Should Be No Horrible Relatives
Looking for books like *Bitten by Leeches While Farming, I Stayed Up All Night Reading for the Imperial Exams*.
🙏 No Romance, and the Male Lead Doesn't Flirt Around. He Focuses on Building His Career.
Celestials: False Immortals, Golden Immortals, Mystic Immortals. Great Immortals: Great Yi Immortals, Great Zhi Immortals, Great Luo Immortals. Supreme Immortals: Immortal Kings, Immortal Venerables, Immortal Emperors.
Recommend Books on Your Shelf You'd Never Delete
Something worth rereading over and over after finishing.
Recommend Good Imperial Exam Fics With a Morally Upright Male Lead, Whether He Comes From a Poor or Aristocratic Family
I don't want one where they get married right at the beginning. I want it to start when they're children.
No Romance, Imperial Exam Stories, No Cross-Dressing, Preferably Starting in Childhood
I want books like The Farmer's Imperial Exam Journey: My Dad Turns Out to Be the Ultimate Study Machine. Why are imperial exam novels almost always about women disguised as men? I'm okay with a woman becoming a man, but I can't handle an imperial exam story where she's just pretending to be one!
For Fans of Late Ming Historical Military Fiction: The Best of the Best
Looking for books like I Passed Myself Off as Chongzhen's Son, Cut Through the Qing Army, and Revived the Ming. The battle scenes feel realistic, the characters fit their historical counterparts, and the payoff is well paced. The protagonist struggles to survive against the odds and plans carefully at every step. No massive tech-tree development and no golden finger.
An Ordinary Family Works Its Way Up from a Minor Official’s Post After Moving to the Capital for the Imperial Exams
A story about a farmer's son passing the imperial examinations and going to the capital as a minor official, with his family going from renting a place to gradually establishing themselves.
Any Ancient Imperial-Examination Novels with the Protagonist Reborn as a Baby?
Looking for books similar to A Guide to Survival for an Ancient-Era Concubine’s Son. It’s always farm boys taking the imperial exams. Are there any about a son from a prestigious family taking the exams, someone like a concubine’s son?
Ancient-Era Farming Novels with Large Families and Many Children
Imperial Exams, Rural Life, Children, Smart Characters, No Dumbing Down, and Real History
Ideally, something set in the Ming dynasty. That one about Zhu Qiniu was pretty good.
The Cream of the Crop! The Cream of the Crop! The Cream of the Crop! The Best Book I’ve Found So Far
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Tomato's Most Widely Acclaimed Masterpieces
The universally acclaimed masterpieces on Tomato: *Da Li*, *Zhan Shen*, and one other I forgot.
Looking for Rigorous, High-Quality Historical Fiction Like A Borrowed Surname in Langya
Looking for stories like *The Matter of the Southern Dynasties' Noble Young Master Being an Impostor*.
I’m Out of Books to Read. Completely Out. Desperately Out.
I've read for over 20,000 hours and am completely out of books 😭 I've read pretty much every kind of web novel, male-oriented and female-oriented alike. I'm tired of formulaic stories, and I'm getting pickier and pickier about what I read. Please share the hidden gems you've been saving, everyone! Hidden treasures...
Rated 9.9, 2026'S Surefire Hit 🔥🔥
Looking for stories similar to *Transmigrate Thirty Years into the Sixties*. Any genre.
Severe Book Drought. I've Given Up on Tomato. Stay Away If You Want Anything Under 200 Chapters
Apocalypse!! Not a Single Chapter Skipped!!! So Good!! Please Recommend It!! 😭
In a Terrible Reading Slump, Help Me Pick Something
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I’m in a Reading Slump and So Frustrated 😖 Everything’s So Boring. Please Recommend Something 😘
I can’t find any fresh, gripping books. I picked out a few at random, but the plots were either cliché or made me feel frustrated!! So annoying. Please recommend something fresh, everyone. No silly, naive female leads or stories that are frustrating to read. Get those out of here~ No entertainment-industry stories.
Back to Gold Prospecting: Recommend Some Romance-Free Stories Without Toxicity or Tired Cliches
Ancient-Era Imperial Exam Success Stories!!! Bring It On
Imperial exams for poor scholars + making money + everyday family life
I'm Tired of Poor Scholar Stories. Any About Scions of Great Clans Taking the Imperial Exams?
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So far this novel seems to be very well written. What's good about him? First: Although the story is about the clan providing for him to study, there is no such thing as the best. Although each has its own little thoughts, it is not the kind of unreasonable behavior. It is much better than other imperial examination or clan novels. Second: The male protagonist only awakened his previous memories after he was five years old. He will not use too advanced thoughts and knowledge to change or make some very big actions (he will not sell the vegetable house to make cement transformation machines, collect ginseng, and all kinds of bad things that the protagonist does in time-travel novels. It seems that he has time-traveled. He has remembered all the modern things and how to do it from beginning to end) Third: This kind of routine is very similar to other novels, maybe 80%, but the author's writing is very different, in my personal opinion. Maybe this is the difference in writing style. Fourth: I won't go into details about the rest to avoid spoilers. Fifth: Now I see that the protagonist is studying. The progress is pretty good, not too late, and not too fast. However, I hope that the protagonist will not encounter many best things in the subsequent plot, which can cause frustration, but too many best things will make people feel sick. I plan to stock up on it for a while and then continue reading. This novel is too preachy. The first part is fine. After all, I didn't start reading much. But when I start reading later, I have to talk about all kinds of truths about human nature and worldliness for a long time. It feels like a chapter and a half of the novel is devoted to this kind of thing. I thought it was quite novel when I first watched it, but the more I watched it, the more tired I became. I'd better keep it for now, I don't really want to see these now I read a novel before that was full of human beings. Even if you don't understand it, the author only needs to click on a few sentences. He won't express all the actions and actions every word. Explain this very simply and clearly. There are too many plots that talk about the wisdom of the world, and it feels like it's a bit overshadowing the plot of the protagonist. The relationship between primary and secondary is reversed. There is a little bit of protagonist in the principle, rather than a little bit of principle mixed in the protagonist.
It's a normal imperial examination essay, taking the imperial examination step by step, no pretense, no pornographic jokes, no slaps in the face, no jumping up and down for the best. The school was conflicted and thought that after beating the younger ones, the older ones would come, but it turns out that the older ones are very reasonable and well-behaved. The protagonist has a very upright outlook on things, is calm, hard-working, and has a measure of progress and retreat. I feel that the author is also a good and sensible person. What the hell, Tomato has devoured several of my books, and I've already read chapter 188. Why does it only show up for half an hour?
The most touching thing about Tomato, an agricultural examination essay, is the portrayal of a group of members of the same clan, breaking away from the routine of a single person's counterattack. The author didn't give the protagonist a golden finger, but focused on the real hardships of providing education to farmers. It's great! According to the order of development of things, it is very interesting to watch, the language is relatively fluent and the levels are clear. Recommend
Real and vivid, with super high praise, the work makes me feel like I am witnessing the growth of a person, the solidarity and mutual assistance of a village, or even an era, unlike some articles that I know are fake and completely devoid of any sense of substitution. It really made me wonder if there really was such a person and a group of people in history, and it also rekindled my admiration for peasant agriculture. At the same time, the author is very sophisticated in characterization and narrative. He does not deliberately depict good or evil, but only shows human nature through events. What moved me very much is that he can finally describe the currency realistically and make the price a good deal. I usually can't understand the text. When I saw some human-machine stories where people could easily sell a cold dish and earn hundreds of taels at a time, I was really going to collapse. I treat the readers as idiots.
I have just read Chapter 51, and I can't help but comment. This book describes the relationship between clans very well, and the pictures are very strong! Absolutely strong! The plot description is also particularly powerful! I can't help but make a suggestion, change the name. According to the current quality, this book is really the best on Tomato. If you change the name to a good name and maintain the quality, it will definitely become popular🔥 I love to read imperial examination essays most, and I read a lot of them from peasant families. However, the plot descriptions in many books, especially the embarrassment and powerlessness of peasant families, are not well described and cannot reflect the atmosphere of poor peasants, which always gives people a feeling of lightness. But this book is different. The article is particularly powerful and the atmosphere is well rendered. Once you step into it, the sense of the picture comes to your face. It's amazing. Come on, author, I will update every day [Love]
🌟A fairy novel to read even if you stay up late I picked up this book yesterday and stayed up all night to read it! 📱The brightness of the screen was adjusted to the minimum, and I was still flipping pages like crazy at three o'clock in the morning😂 History fans will really appreciate it. The author wrote the details of the imperial examination as real as a documentary, and even the tricks of cheating in the examination room are well documented! ✨Why does it deserve five stars? - The plot is so tight that I dare not fast forward ⏩ Every stage of the protagonist's counterattack from a poor scholar is super interesting. I just slapped my thighs and cheered when I saw the part where he verbally battled with the scholars! - The supporting characters are all vivid 💯 The mean examiner, the righteous classmate, the mysterious beauty... Every character seems to have come out of history - The knowledge points are dense but not boring📚 After reading it, I actually understood the imperial examination process of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. It is a hundred times more interesting than a history class! 💡Who is it suitable to watch? - Those who like the history of "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty" - A late-night party who loves to pursue Machiavellian stories. - A pseudo-academic who wants to secretly learn history knowledge Now my mind is full of the famous scene where the protagonist debates in the Golden Palace 🤩 Sisters of Shuhuang, close your eyes and enter, if it doesn't look good, come hit me! (Not) 👉Hurry @your historical partner and watch it together. Remember to come back to share the story after watching~ #historicalnovel #treasurebooklist #imperial examination subject #a must-read if you stay up late
It's really good-looking, with almost no poisonous points. The main character and other characters in A Little Tomato are normal. The main character is not a eunuch, and he doesn't deliberately cater to the people who don't have female protagonists. There are not many emotional scenes, which does not affect the main line, and the emotional increase is well-founded. The author is also very knowledgeable in culture, unlike other authors who just write historical articles with nothing different. But be careful. After I read it, I started reading other books, and suddenly I couldn't bear it. I used to be able to tolerate some poisonous points, but now I can't [face covering]
I read the first half of this undergraduate book and I think it is well written. It is a book worth reading. I think many chapters are very well written and well-founded. I can feel that the author is not blindly following a template. He expresses this story to us based on the truth, and the protagonist is also very rational. It can be seen from the fragment that he does not go to his remarried mother and self-reflection. The author's portrayal of the characters is very outstanding, and the description of other characters in the film is also very full, and it is very consistent with the reality of rural characters.
I have to say, this novel is really good! It tells the story of a boy from a poor family in a rural area who studied hard for the imperial examination, and the whole family supported him along the way. The protagonist is upright, down-to-earth and hard-working, and the plot is compact and touching. The author's writing style is exquisite, the details related to the imperial examination are solidly researched, and the picture is very strong. It is immersive to read and is very suitable for film and television dramas. The author's profound cultural heritage can be seen between the lines. It is a masterpiece that becomes more interesting the more you read it. The rating is a bit low, but I give it full marks. Come on, author, look forward to it!
This is the best article I have ever read about the whole family's scientific examination, and it doesn't have too many golden fingers. It all depends on the memory of the male protagonist's past life and photographic memory after time travel. It is normal for the aunt to have a little selfishness in the early stage. After all, she is an ordinary person. I hope it will not be unfinished [currently in progress]