(𖦹.𖦹) A new author and a new book! [A safe place to store your brain!]
[Ancient setting + transmigrate + wild imagination + no female lead + System]
Lu Wenyuan opens his eyes to find himself a poor scholar in ancient times, one who has repeatedly failed the exams.
He smiles.
He may never have taken the imperial exams, but he has taken the gaokao. Hasn’t he seen the terror of “five years of past gaokao exams, three years of practice tests”?
While scholars of the dynasty are still burying themselves in the classics, convinced that “read a book a hundred times and its meaning will reveal itself”;
while headmasters of the great academies keep lecturing about “the destiny of literary composition,” too proud to discuss technique;
while imperial exam study guides still consist of scattered notes and reflections left by earlier generations...
Lu Wenyuan turns around and founds Longmen Academy, specializing in the imperial exams. It teaches no roundabout rhetoric, only the surest path to passing.
The results shock the court and the countryside:
At the June prefectural exams, candidates from Shuntian Prefecture take the top ten places, with Ge Li Academy claiming eight of them!
At the August provincial exams, three out of every ten successful candidates from North Zhili are Lu Wenyuan’s students!
Has he upset the apple cart? No, he’s flipped over the entire table of the imperial examination system.
The vested interests strike back fiercely:
Confucian traditionalists denounce him as “a heretic who betrays the classics and corrupts people’s minds”;
centuries-old academies condemn him as “an opportunist and a parasite on the imperial exams”;
he narrowly escapes being blacklisted by his rivals, who join forces against him...
