A Commoner’s Road to the Imperial Exam: From the Start, My Clan Struck Me from the Family Register, So I Started Anew

Shen Yan transmigrates into the body of a poor scholar who has been disowned by his clan. All he has at home are his sick mother and half a sack of coarse rice. The clan head says he'll never pass the imperial exams, so Shen Yan turns to modern study methods, case-law reasoning, and an understanding of village life. First, he takes the top spot in the county exam, then gives the entire clan a humiliating wake-up call.