A Zhong Yong from the Start: Why Won't Father Let Me Take the Imperial Exams?

(Imperial examinations + transmigration + solving crimes through deduction) (No CP, but there will be female characters. In the early chapters, solving cases and preparing for the imperial examinations go hand in hand.)

A graduate student in history transmigrates into the son of an ancient county magistrate.

From the start, he should have been on the fast track to passing the imperial examinations.

Instead, his father dismisses his tutor and locks up the study, then spends his days taking him to watch cockfights, visit gambling dens, and drink to his heart's content.

The whole county praises him for raising such a carefree good-for-nothing.

Only Li Ming knows the truth: at six years old, he could recite the imperial laws from memory, yet he was forbidden even to touch a practice copybook.

What is his father hiding?

Why does the secretary, Zhang Dehou, keep watching him every day?

When he pieces together every scrap of gossip he has heard over the past ten years, the answer sends a chill down his spine.

Now it is his turn to make a move.