Three Years After Failing the Exam, I Drive the Entire Court Mad with a Test-Prep Course

After transmigrating into the body of a down-and-out scholar who had failed the exams three times, fallen into debt, and been dumped in a woodshed, Zhao Shuyan was at his wit’s end. As an experienced modern test-prep instructor, he knew that while others relied on rote memorization and years of hard study, his own strengths were identifying key topics, breaking down past exams, and spotting patterns in the questions. He only wanted to pass the provincial exam and live a quiet life. But the patterns he casually identified in a decade’s worth of exam questions kept paying off in the provincial and metropolitan exams. The worthless scholar everyone despised rose all the way to become a prodigy who shook the entire court! The examiners scrutinized him at every turn, and officials questioned him from every side. Yet all they ever saw was him sipping tea, slacking off, and casually reviewing his notes, without the slightest sign of hard study. When a mysterious strategist in white and a taciturn powerhouse from the Ministry of Justice appeared one after another, Zhao Shuyan finally realized that the vast imperial court was hiding three transmigrators from the modern world! One plotted behind the scenes to shape the direction of the imperial examinations. Another was mired in the political quagmire, defending the court’s bottom line. Only Zhao Shuyan worked out in the open, using a modern test-prep system to overturn a century of academic tradition in the Great Jing. He opened classes, organized past exam questions, reformed academic culture, and relieved disasters while governing the country. While the Confucian officials filled the court with empty talk about the sages’ virtues, Zhao Shuyan had already learned to predict the exams through patterns and bring peace to the realm through practical action. From a failed examinee in a woodshed, he rose step by step to become the young chief minister who ushered in an age of prosperity for the ages!