[Alternate history + imperial examinations + rejuvenation + System]
Xiao Che, a sixty-year-old examination candidate, is impoverished, destitute, and gravely ill. He's about to kick the bucket in his ramshackle hut.
His neighbors curse him as an "old coffin-dodger," and even the mice think he's too poor!
Just as all hope seems lost, the "Literary Dao Pinnacle (Romance Edition)" System activates!
Pass the county-level examination? Reward: return to the age of fifty!
Even more outrageous, it comes with a well-matched lovely wife and her own dowry?!
To stay alive and get a second shot at love, Old Xiao slaps his thigh with a withered hand (then grimaces in pain): Let's do it!
And so the most "inspiring" candidate on the Nine Wastelands Continent is born: an old white-haired man, carrying a fishing rod and clutching the Confucian classics, with a simple goal:
Trade honors for youth, and pass the exams to marry a beautiful young bride!
