The Imperial Academy's Top Student

Dual male leads, transmigration, bickering rivals, hilarious comedy, sweet romance, high-tech inventions, feel-good power fantasy, play the pig to eat the tiger, third-person narration

My nemesis and I transmigrated together into the bodies of ancient scholars, and even became roommates at the Imperial College, sharing the same bed.

He crammed for the Four Books and Five Classics every day, while I stayed up studying gunpowder and cement.

With the end-of-term exams fast approaching, the chief examiner turned out to be the iron-fisted Crown Prince himself.

My nemesis studied so hard he made everyone else weep, while I whipped out my high-tech inventions and blew up half a wall of the exam hall.

But the Crown Prince grabbed my wrist, his eyes feverish. “The nation needs you two, gentlemen.”