Transmigrated as a Destitute Scholar, I Restore My Clan Through the Imperial Exams

Modern office drone Lin Yan dies from overwork while staying up late to study for the civil service exam. When he opens his eyes, he has transmigrated to a parallel Ming dynasty, where he has become an impoverished scholar with an empty home, mounting debts, and a habit of getting beaten.

His original self was clumsy with words and failed the exams time and again, while local bullies and gentry, along with his spiteful father-in-law, took turns mistreating him.

Fortunately, Lin Yan's mind is packed with modern knowledge, viral internet memes, and all-purpose exam-answer templates!

He takes first place with a perfect score in the county exam, leaves the examiners speechless in the prefectural exam, and writes a poem in the provincial exam that spreads across the internet and reaches the capital.

He makes money by improving farming tools, solves wrongful cases tied to grain shortages, stands up to corrupt officials, and saves the people. Powerful figures at court scramble to take him on as a protégé.

While others spend ten years studying by lamplight, Lin Yan races ahead with his far-sighted ideas. He rises from a poor scholar to the dynasty's top scholar in both the civil and military exams, holding power and wealth with a lovely wife by his side, and reshaping the course of an entire century in this parallel dynasty!