Imperial Exams: From the Start, I'm Just a Nobody, but I Specialize in Taking Down Female-Centric Tropes

(Imperial Exams + Lighthearted Comedy + No Romance) I transmigrated.

I became an illegitimate son in a marquis's household, a family cobbled together from five romance novels where everyone was either hopelessly lovesick or a hopeless romantic.

My eldest brother was living out a body-double romance, my second brother was staging a groveling-to-win-her-back saga, my third brother was doing a marriage-first, love-later story, and my fourth brother had married the wrong person.

And I was the expendable character who handed them the knives, took the blame, and eventually died for reasons no one could explain.

After I awakened, I had just one thought: This family is too dangerous. I have to get out.

While they indulged in romance, I studied by candlelight, hanging a beam from my hair and pricking my thigh with an awl to stay awake.

While they went mad with love, I buried myself in exam prep.

By the time their antics had thrown the entire marquis's household into chaos, I had quietly secured my ticket to an official career.

Later, as they knelt before the ancestral shrine in repentance, I held up the imperial decree and said with a smile, “Everyone, the game's over. It's my turn to enforce the law.”