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

【Male protagonist’s perspective + reborn in the womb + imperial exams and farming + court politics + no romance】 The entire Xu clan is illiterate, a bunch of dirt-poor peasants. Not a single scholar has come from the family in a hundred years. Xu Laosan drinks heavily and beats his family, while Han Shi is disabled and walks with a limp. They are often mocked and looked down on in the village, and even their own family doesn’t think much of them. How could two farming peasants like these have a genius scholar for a son? Xu Jinyuan was the top science student across four provinces in his previous life, the very picture of a rich second-generation official’s son. But he is reborn in the womb as a chubby little farm boy. At first, Xu Jinyuan just wants to slack off and wait to die. He never wants to study for exams again, much less get up before dawn and study until late at night. A carefree country boy with no ambitions sounds pretty good to him. But fate has other plans. His eldest sister is married off and mistreated by her in-laws. His parents toil in the fields planting rice, working so hard their backs are bent for life. And the other clans bully the people of Xu Family Village at will... At last, Xu Jinyuan decides to change his fate through education and take the imperial examination route. He just never expected to be taking the ancient imperial exams as a top science student. Isn’t that completely crazy? The county, prefectural, and academy exams don’t go all that smoothly at first. But it’s fine. He’s a genius, a top scholar, a supreme academic prodigy. Even without any experience taking the imperial exams, his photographic memory and exceptional intelligence will let him breeze through them. After the provincial exam, Xu Jinyuan’s fortunes suddenly take off. One piece of wonderful news after another reaches the village, and the whole of Xu Family Village is in an uproar. Good heavens! Who would’ve believed it? That little donkey egg from the Xu family’s mud-walled courtyard has actually passed the highest imperial exam and become a presented scholar! Well, looks like the Xu clan will have to give him a special place in the family genealogy!