Our Destitute Family Was One Step from Ruin, but I Led the Whole Clan to Gentry Status Through the Imperial Exams

A portrait hangs in the Cen family home. They say it depicts an ancestor who once held high office.

Old Cen dreams of having another scholar in the family, someone who can carry on its glory.

Unfortunately, none of his sons have amounted to much. His second son has repeatedly failed the exams and even suffered an accident that left him a fool.

Old Cen has completely given up hope. Then Cen Jingnian is born.

This grandson... seems a little too clever.

He passes the first exam and becomes a licentiate, then passes the next and becomes a county scholar, rising steadily from there.

Hope rekindles in Old Cen’s heart.

My grandson... might even become a chancellor!

Our family might even become a prestigious clan!