The Imperial Exams: The Best in the Land Is a Woman!

[Disguised as a Man | Imperial Examinations and Officialdom | A Genius's Growth | Court Intrigue | Slow-Burn Romance]

On the night Xie Mingze was born, two cries rang out in the delivery room, one after the other, yet the Xie family reported only one boy.

Her twin brother didn't survive the night. The girl who lived was entered into the male register by her grandmother. Inside the family home, she was her mother's daughter; outside, she became the Xie family's only young master.

She has complete memories of a previous life and knows five thousand years of history, but the Great Sheng dynasty never appeared in the history books she read. She has no answers about what tomorrow will bring.

All she can do is study, investigate, and prove her way forward one step at a time.

The world waits to see the Xie family's child prodigy pass the examinations and enter officialdom. No one knows that every examination she takes means signing another document declaring her a man; every official seal she receives brings another responsibility she cannot pass on to anyone else.

But Xie Mingze never intended to remain the Xie family's young master forever.

She wants the honors list, the official seals, and a place at court. As for who Xie Mingze really is, when the day comes to say it, she'll answer in her own words.

[The examination questions, essays, topic interpretations, and poems in this novel are fictional.

The setting is fictional, with some original elements, and is as rigorous as possible.]

[Male-to-female ratio: 6:4 in the early stages, 3:7 in the middle, and 6:4 in the later stages.]