There's a Top Scholar Living Inside Me

[Ancient-to-modern transmigration + passing the civil service exam + workplace power plays + two souls sharing one body]

Lu Yunzhen, the top scholar of the Great Liang dynasty who earned the highest honors in all six imperial examinations, awakens in a modern-day good-for-nothing named Su Xing after taking over his body.

Faced with the civil service exam, where “thousands of troops and horses try to cross a single-plank bridge,” Lu Yunzhen smiles. “When it comes to answering questions and serving as an official, I’m your founding master!”

The original owner’s soul handles “looking it up online,” serving as a modern encyclopedia, while the top scholar delivers a “dimensionality-reduction strike” and sweeps through the exam hall.

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At the interview, Lu Yunzhen wears a cheap suit, but his collar is buttoned tight, giving him an air of restrained, scholarly authority.

When the examiners hit him with a tricky question about a “mass incident,” he doesn’t recite some cram-school template. Instead, his gaze sharpens as though he has become an imperial inspector.

“For this matter, one must combine kindness with authority, punish the chief offenders, and comfort the common people…”

After taking first place, he faces office politics, drinking culture, and pointless formalities.

Lu Yunzhen uses the soft, yielding moves of Tai Chi to fend off blame-shifting at work, the Six Arts of the Gentleman to outclass those who rely on connections, and open strategy to break deadlocks, rising steadily from a low-ranking clerk to the heights of officialdom.

“All my life, I have known only this: to establish the mind for Heaven and Earth, and to secure the destiny of the people!”

See how an ancient top scholar makes his way through modern officialdom, using the art of ruling and Confucian wisdom to forge an unconventional path to success!