Fake Champion

As soon as Shen Yan opened his eyes, he became the bastard in the Taifu's mansion whose father did not care for his mother's absence. What's even worse is that the original owner left him with a dead end - he paid someone to take the exam for him, but the person who took the exam died. The palace examination is coming soon. Going to the examination is cheating the emperor, not going is resisting the decree, and the entire Shen family will be buried with him. But the middleman had already grasped the ironclad evidence and was waiting for the Shen family to jump into the trap. What he wants is not only Shen Yan's life, but also the official position of Taifu and the heads of more than a hundred members of the Shen family. In desperate situation, Shen Yan went to the palace with his pen in hand. On top of the golden palace, the emperor asked about the northwest army's supplies. Shen Yan condensed what he had learned throughout his life into a square-inch answer sheet, and his answers were fluent. The royal pen appointed him as the third in the first grade and the third in the third grade. But before he left the Jinluan Palace, the impeachment memorial had been handed to the imperial court - hiring someone to take the exam for him, deceiving the emperor and ignoring him, the evidence was conclusive. All civil and military officials in the court were waiting to see his head fall to the ground. Shen Yan smiled. He took out a yellowed diary from his sleeve, which was a relic left by the deceased. The diary not only wrote about the experience of the substitute exam, but also recorded an old account: in the provincial exam three years ago, the righteous "middleman" accepted a bribe of three thousand taels and manipulated the exam in secret, causing the innocent scholar to fail the exam out of spite. A diary, two lives, the root of the disaster planted three years ago. It was originally a grave he dug for himself, but today, it was someone else who had to bury it with his own hands on top of the Golden Palace.