I Saved the Empress, Then Came First in the Imperial Exams

Name: I Saved the Empress, Then Came First in the Imperial Exams
Author: Jumping Frog

救下女帝后，我中了状元

by Jumping Frog (跳啊跳的青蛙)

Status: Ongoing
Length: 2.0M Words
Genre: Historical
Subgenre: Historical & Ancient
Updated: 17h ago
English: Request a translation

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Synopsis

Ning Nan transmigrates into a rundown village called Li Jia Village and spends eighteen whole years there.

After beating the male lead to the punch and rescuing the amnesiac female lead, he discovers that the male lead has rescued someone too!

He forces the male lead to become sworn brothers with that woman, then heads home, satisfied. He checks the fingers of the woman he rescued and, seeing the calluses on her hands, confirms that she really is only the female lead's maid!

He sighs and rushes off to curry favor with the real female lead, hoping to get registered as a resident and take the imperial examinations.

But after his mother plays matchmaker, he still ends up marrying the maid.

However... things gradually start to take a strange turn.

When he writes, his mother can only praise how dark his writing is, but his wife says his calligraphy in the Wei stele style is better than even the current Grand Academician's.

When he uses penicillin to treat people's wounds, others say that Ning is fierce, but knows his medicinal herbs. His wife, eyes shining, says even the Imperial Physician should come learn from him.

As he leads the villagers in taming the unruly river, his wife asks how he would manage it if the river were a hundred times bigger.

While he's studying gunpowder ratios in the hills behind the village, his wife sneaks after him and asks if he can teach her the formula.

When he heads to the bandit stronghold to rescue his brothers, he steels himself and orders his wife to remarry. But she shows up with her friends... and why is his wife so strong?

And why does his wife have so many friends? Is one of them the commander of the Imperial Guards?

Later, after earning merit for suppressing bandits, he receives his household registration and becomes a true citizen of the Great Liang!

...Now he can take the imperial examinations!

He passes the examinations at every level, becoming a licentiate, a provincial graduate, a presented scholar, and finally the top scorer.

Decked out in flowers and feeling on top of the world, he goes to pay his respects to the empress.

Then a very familiar voice rings out from the court.

"Well, well, the top scorer is quite the handsome fellow..."

Other names

You Top the Imperial Exams, Only to Find Your Wife on the Throne你中状元上殿，但皇位上是你老婆Alternate title on Fanqie

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