From the Start as a Beggar: I Use Modern Knowledge to Crush the Competition

[Woman Disguised as a Man + Imperial Exams and Court Politics + Nation-Building + Two Powerful Leads, 1v1 + Extreme Contrast + Comeback and Face-Slapping]

After transmigrating, Su Qianqian, a frail liberal arts student, becomes a little beggar everyone on the street can bully.

With both parents dead and nothing to her name but a miserable life, she has nothing but hunger and beatings.

When a modern soul enters this frail body, and vast knowledge of history and a refined literary education awaken in her mind, she knows they are her only weapons.

To survive, and to live with dignity, she picks up a battered book, using the earth as paper and charcoal as ink.

“Is there truly a golden house in books, and a beauty like jade?”

No. For her, books hold warm meals, and more importantly, plenty of grain!

Disguised as a man, she embarks on the path of the imperial examinations. From the county-level exams to the palace examination, she uses modern knowledge to outclass the ancients. Her essays on statecraft astonish everyone, and she climbs step by step to the heights of success.

Those who once bullied, humiliated, belittled, and despised her will eventually kneel on the ground, looking up at the golden hat of the top scorer on her head.

She wants not only to make herself someone of consequence, but also to open a road to success for the poor scholars of the world!

This is the story of someone who rises from the mire, wielding her pen like a blade and her ink like an edge, and ultimately changing an era.

And when the gentle prince, as warm as jade, sees the stars and ideals in her eyes amid a crowd of thousands, a legend of building a prosperous age together is only just beginning...