Admission from a Humble Family: from Commoner to Prime Minister

When Lin Yan, a graduate of the Department of Literature and History, opened his eyes, he was transformed into a commoner at the bottom of the Dajing Dynasty. His family had only four walls, a thatched house, and coarse grains to feed himself. His father was weak, his mother was overworked, and his younger sister was thin. Even a full meal was a luxury. There is no system cheating, only thousands of years of knowledge at your side; there is no overnight achievement, only continuous advancement through writing. While chopping firewood and cultivating the land and taking care of farm chores, he stayed up late at night to read and delve deeply into the books of saints and sages—getting up in the morning with the roosters crowing and endorsing the books, helping his mother sew in the afternoon, and taking his little sister to catch chickens and ducks in the evening. The snobbish relatives who bullied him, the rich children who mocked him, and the country gentry who despised him were all slapped in the face by his consecutive successes in the imperial examinations. The pedantic but upright gentleman, the simple and helpful neighbors, and the like-minded book friends all accompanied him on his steady progress. From a humble boy in the countryside to a leader in the county examination, from a poor scholar to a rural examination candidate, from a scholar in the capital to an important minister in the court, he used his pen as a blade and his talent as a ladder. In the smoke of firewood, rice, oil and salt, he passed through the various levels of the imperial examination, crushing the mediocre, checking and balancing the aristocratic families, and caring for the common people. There is no sense of mindless excitement, only the practicality of taking every step; there is no bloody plot, only the daily life filled with fireworks. Watch Lin Yan, a boy from a poor family, fight back against the fireworks of the world, climb from his mud legs all the way to the top of the court, protect his family, bring peace to the people, and settle the world!