An Illiterate Clan Takes the Imperial Exams, While a Science Whiz Is Terrifyingly Good

[Male POV + Reincarnated as a Baby + Imperial Exams and Farming + Court Politics + No Romance]

The entire Xu clan was illiterate, a family of uneducated peasants that hadn’t produced a scholar in a hundred years.

Third Uncle Xu was a drunk who beat his family, while Han was disabled and lame. They were often mocked and looked down on in the village, and even their own family didn’t care for them. Yet these two dirt-poor farmers somehow gave birth to a genius scholar?

Xu Jinyuan had been the top science student in four provinces in his previous life, a genuine official’s son and rich kid. But he was reborn as a chubby little boy in a farming family.

At first, Xu Jinyuan just wanted to slack off and wait to die. He never wanted to study for exams again, or spend his days and nights buried in books. Being a carefree country bumpkin with no ambition sounded pretty good.

But fate had other plans. His eldest sister married into a family that mistreated her, his parents worked themselves to the bone planting rice, and the other clans bullied the villagers of Xu Family Village as they pleased...

At last, Xu Jinyuan decided to change his fate through education. He would take the imperial examinations.

But he never imagined that a top science student like him would be taking ancient imperial exams. Wasn’t that completely insane?

The county, prefectural, and academy examinations didn’t go smoothly at first.

But it didn’t matter. He was a genius, a top student, a supreme academic talent. Even without any experience with the imperial examinations, his photographic memory and exceptional intelligence would make short work of them.

After the provincial examination, Xu Jinyuan’s fortunes suddenly took off. One piece of major good news after another reached the village, and the whole of Xu Family Village was thrown into an uproar.

Good heavens! Who would believe it? That little donkey egg from the Xu family’s dirt courtyard had actually made the imperial honor roll and passed the palace examination to become a Presented Scholar!

Good grief, was the Xu clan going to have to create a whole new branch in the family tree just for him?