Transmigrating as a Scholar and Working His Way Through the Imperial Exams 穿越成为一个书生，通过步步科举，
GPT-6 Luna
In this list
Reader notes translated by Google Translate
153
- 101 The Road to the Top: A Restaurant from the Start 巅峰之路：开局一间食肆 A seasoned Beijinger wakes up one day to find himself the son of a low-ranking official in Wenshui County. His father is incorruptible, the family is struggling financially, his younger sister is malnourished, and he has two younger brothers: one whose schooling costs money and another who is only six months old. Ye Fan looks up at the sky and sighs. He never expected that what could help him most right now would be neither his education nor his work experience, but the cooking skills he was for 655Reads8.4Score103Shelves
-
102
A Humble Scholar in Commoner's Clothes 布衣小书生
He went up the mountain to look for a sheep, accidentally fell off a cliff, and woke up to find himself reborn as a baby in an unknown dynasty. He looked around and discovered that his family was dirt poor: they had too little to eat, too little to wear, and lived in a mud house where rain poured outside and dripped inside. He had an older sister and a younger sister. He had thought that, with his modern soul, he could surely make a brilliant life for himself, but he never expected fate to deal
921Reads7.4Score110Shelves
Reader note
- 103 The Carefree Little Landlord 逍遥小地主 He was lucky enough to transmigrate, and even into the family of a wealthy landlord. He'd never have to worry about food or clothes, but he had no intention of wasting his life doing nothing. So Fu Xiaoguan casually set a few things in motion, never expecting the impact to be so enormous. The emperor wants to make him a first-rank official, the princess wants him as her husband, the daughter of the Minister's household refuses to marry anyone else, the barbarians want his head, the Yi Kingdom wa 37.2kReads8.9Score4.3kShelves
- 104 Great Tang: Give Your Seat to the Blind Man 大唐：给瞎子让座 Other people transmigrate to the Tang dynasty and either make salt to earn a noble title, predict natural disasters to become high officials, or brew wine and become the richest man in the land. How come I transmigrated into a blind man? Still, at least I awakened the ability to see with my mind, letting me view the world through my heart. In the early years of Zhenguan, the first imperial decree called for people to marry and have children. The government ordered wives to be assigned, and newly 11.6kReads8.7Score887Shelves
- 105 Great Ming: The Village's Little Top Scholar, Whom Old Zhu Absolutely Adores 大明：乡村小状元，老朱贼稀罕我 During the Hongwu era of the Ming dynasty, Zhu Qiniu, an ordinary four-year-old farm boy, accidentally comes across a silver bell. From then on, he dreams every night of entering a room filled with books: the Thousand Character Classic, the Hundred Family Surnames, the Four Books and Five Classics, collections of successful candidates’ exam essays from every dynasty, and more. With his golden finger and relentless effort, he becomes the top scholar before the age of ten. Beloved by Old Zhu, Litt 18.8kReads8.9Score1.5kShelves
-
106
The Imperial Examinations: Rising to the First Rank of Officialdom 科举之官居一品
Synopsis: A scholar in the morning, admitted to the imperial court by night. The protagonist begins as a young scholar from a farming family and rises step by step through the imperial examination system. In the end, he earns a place on the honors list, becomes a jinshi, and enters the ranks of officials. After becoming an official, he works his way up through the bureaucracy until he reaches the highest rank and governs the realm as chief minister, guiding Chinese civilization to become the mos
2kReads7.6Score101Shelves
Reader note
-
107
A Stick in the Tang Dynasty 大唐一根棍
[Comedy + Suspense + Brainy Wish Fulfillment + Historically Grounded Tang Dynasty] A farm boy with a serious lack of virtue gradually grows into the Tang dynasty's number-one troublemaker (no, wait, strike that). He grows into a pillar that holds up the sky, a beam that spans the sea. If I'm having a good time and you're not, I'll beat you until you are. If I can't reform you, I'll cremate you. I crush foreign kingdoms, dissect the aristocratic clans, discipline princes, and slap emperors I can'
3kReads8.7Score235Shelves
Reader note
-
108
A Couple Transmigrates: My Easygoing Husband Takes the Exams While I Raise the Kids 夫妻穿越：咸鱼老公科举我养娃
[Completed] [No pocket dimension, no System + lighthearted comedy + everyday family life + slow pace] A modern couple transmigrates to ancient times and finally fulfills their dream of having a son and a daughter. Their daughter, reborn into a new life, wants nothing more than a loving father and mother. Professor Zhang: “Even though I transmigrated, I don't want to take the imperial exams. I just want to laze around.” Manager Li: “Even though I came along too, I can't exactly make my husband wo
4.4kReads9.2Score493Shelves
Reader note
-
109
A Woman in a Man's Body: The Concubine-Born Heir's Rise to Power 女穿男，庶房嫡子的逆袭
Now available as an audiobook with a full cast. [Alternate history] + [Woman transmigrates as a man] + [Born into this world] + [Imperial exams and business in the early story] + [Court politics later on] + [One female lead, with a relatively small role] + [A touch of ensemble cast] + [No golden finger] Xie Chengxi was born into another world as the sixth son of the Xie family, a minor family in Bianjing's Grain Transport Guild. His father was the clan's rejected son, kept under pressure for yea
33.9kReads8.3Score3.7kShelves
Reader note
- 110 The Abandoned Heir Places First in the Imperial Exam, and Ten Thousand Riders Storm the Marquis’s Mansion 被弃世子中状元，万骑踏平侯府门 [Imperial Examinations + Reborn in the Womb + Court Politics + Revenge + System] Shen Shufan was reborn in the womb as the heir to a marquis’s estate, only to be knocked unconscious and thrown into a river. No problem: ever heard of the Proficiency System? The impoverished Shen family, a humble family of scholars, found a poor child in a freezing river. Little did they know he was an imperial-examination genius! Other families considered it a blessing from their ancestors if even one person pass 22.6kReads8.7Score2.6kShelves
- 111 The Number One Son-in-Law: From Child Bridegroom to Powerful Minister 第一赘婿：从童养夫到权臣 [Farming and imperial examinations + warm and relaxing + alternate ancient setting] [The male lead seems sweet and simple but is actually cunning and doting toward his wife; a story of growth × the female lead seems frail but is actually domineering and cold-hearted] Villagers: “That little fool from the Fang family carries Pear Girl around everywhere all day. What a bargain that child bride turned out to be!” Song Zhun: “Do you think I want to carry her? If I don’t humor that lazy girl, she say 737Reads8.4Score103Shelves
-
112
A Poor Scholar’s Rise Begins with Meeting the Miserable Crown Prince 寒门崛起，从遇上苦逼太子开始
[Transmigration + Imperial Exams for the Poor + No System + Lighthearted + Wits and Strategy] After transmigrating to ancient times, Tang Yin was completely dumbfounded. He'd gone to sleep and woken up as a seven-year-old kid? He lived in Peach Blossom Village, Qingzhou Prefecture, in the Great Ming, and came from a poor family? It was a disastrous start. He had to fight heaven and earth, and even deal with his awful relatives. Determined to escape the mountains, Tang Yin secretly studied at the
6.2kReads7.9Score543Shelves
Reader note
-
113
I Turned My Superstitious Father into the Chief Councilor 我把神棍老爹卷成首辅
[Ensemble cast + imperial examinations + daily life + farming + court politics later on] Father and son join forces to build a Ming dynasty on which the sun never sets. Yan Xun transmigrates to the Ming dynasty and discovers that his father can do everything except study. His dad has so many secret identities, like an onion with layer after layer to peel back. Huh! If I push Dad hard enough to make him Grand Secretary, can I become a Junior Grand Secretary? The filial son Yan Xun sells everythin
22.8kReads9.5Score2.7kShelves
Reader note
- 114 While Others Take the Official Exam, I Farm: Saving Myself Decades of Detours 别人考官我种田，少走弯路几十年 Song Buci transmigrated, but he wasn’t born into a wealthy family or a high-ranking household. Instead, he became Song Fuyu, a nine-year-old farm boy and young scholar from Songjia Village! He thought his journey would take him into the cutthroat world of court politics, full of intrigue and betrayal. But before he could even set out, consumption laid him low, his family was destitute, and he was going hungry. Did all of them want him dead? Thunder boomed beneath a moonless sky, and a wild boar 3.5kReads8.9Score292Shelves
-
115
After Failing the Exams, the Scholar Takes Up His Blade and Slaughters His Way Through a Chaotic Age 落榜后，秀才提刀杀穿乱世
Su Ming transmigrates into a chaotic age. He plans to pass the civil service exams, become a low-ranking county magistrate, and live out his days in peace. Who could have guessed the times would be so dark that he would fail the exams? Su Ming decisively abandons the pen for the sword. By chance, he joins the Yinglong Guard, and from that day on, the Guard gains a god of slaughter. Officials at court tremble in fear, and heroes across the martial world quake in their boots! Officials: Find out w
16.6kReads7.6Score1.4kShelves
Reader note
-
116
You Take the Imperial Exams, I Farm: A Paper-Thin Couple Braving the Famine 你科举我种田，塑料夫妻闯荒年
[Farming + food + pocket dimension + stockpiling grain + fleeing famine + business + sweet romance + everyday life] After Jiang Qingyue’s soul is mistakenly taken, she receives the ultimate transmigration starter pack. She thought she’d get to live a cheat-powered life, railing against heaven, earth, and everything in between. Instead, she transmigrates into the body of a fat, lazy, greedy, slippery woman and marries a man who hates her to the bone. Song Yan died unjustly in his previous life an
47kReads9.0Score3.4kShelves
Reader note
- 117 The Daily Life of an Ancient Couple Making Money and Raising Kids 古代夫妻赚钱养娃日常 A local ancient couple's everyday struggle to save money and raise their child! The village's most beautiful embroiderer × a clever, capable accountant × their smart, well-behaved son! See how this family rises from humble farming roots and climbs the social ladder! The story of Chen Qiuyue and Zhao Huaiyu, a couple born and raised in ancient times, who work hard to save money and pay for their child's education after starting a family. They succeed in raising their child to excel, and their fa 7.4kReads8.6Score554Shelves
-
118
A Zhuangyuan Emerges from a Farming Family Through the Imperial Exams 科举农门出了个状元郎
After finally making something of himself as an orphan, he opened his eyes in the darkness and found himself a five-year-old idiot in ancient times. From the start, the Husky System tricked him into going deep into the mountains, telling him to be independent and figure out how to survive there alone. To hell with that! I have a home and a family. There’s just one problem: this family is dirt poor! No worries. Getting rich and passing the imperial exams are well within his abilities! This is a s
365Reads6.9Score—Shelves
Reader note
- 119 A Woman in a Man's Body: A Country Boy's Road to the Imperial Exams 女穿男：极品农家小子的科举 [Female-to-male transmigration + farming + imperial examinations + changing her fate + everyday family life] Liu Shu was on his deathbed when he transmigrated into the body of a little boy. His father was crafty, his mother slippery, his older brother simple-minded, and his older sister fiery. He was both lazy and greedy, so he had two flaws to his name. By chance, he learned that his family was the eldest branch's human ATM, the kind they would grind to the bone and still squeeze dry. This... T 4Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 120 A Farming Couple, Building a Better Life Together 农门夫妻，携手奔小康 [Farming + imperial examinations + raising children + everyday family life] Qin Shu transmigrated and suddenly found herself aged up to thirty-eight, with a new identity as the mother of four fine sons. Believing that the strong never complain about their circumstances, Qin Shu rolled up her sleeves and began adjusting to her new life. Wait, why was her original body's husband still here? 16.5kReads8.8Score2.1kShelves
- 121 That Country Bumpkin Fool Turned Out to Be the Top Scholar 他一个农家傻子，竟是科举状元 [Imperial Examinations + Political Intrigue + Farming + Court Politics + Rebirth into the Same Dynasty] Overnight, the entire Li household, home to a first-rank minister, is slaughtered. From an eighty-year-old elder to a baby still nursing, more than two hundred people are cut down. Not one survives, and the ground runs red with blood... Li Qingyun wakes up to discover that he has been reborn as a farmer’s son. A mother who cries easily, a father with a second wife, a shrewish aunt, a cousi 968Reads8.3Score100Shelves
-
122
Ming Dynasty Imperial Exams: From the Start, I Became the Father of Five Children 大明科举，开局成了五个孩子的爹
(Farming + daily life in ancient times + imperial examinations) A reassuring read. Shen Lin'an inexplicably finds himself reborn in ancient times in the body of a widower, with four sons and a daughter to care for, as well as a mother in her fifties. The original owner was a scholar, but he had never even earned the title of licentiate. He was too weak to shoulder a load or lift a hand, knew nothing of farming, and spent every day in drunken stupors, letting the years slip by. Let's see how Shen
2.1kReads7.0Score160Shelves
Reader note
-
123
The Imperial Exam: Top of the Six Tests, Reshaping the Workplace 科举，六元及第整顿职场
(No System, no golden finger, one female lead) (A slow-burn story) In the 21st century, the only person in Tianhai University’s history to earn master’s degrees in both the arts and sciences suddenly transmigrates into the body of a poor farmer’s son in ancient times. Looking at the bare walls of his home and the family who place all their hopes in him, Wang Ping can only gaze at the heavens in speechless resignation. Since all other pursuits are inferior and only scholarship is esteemed, he wi
944Reads7.5Score107Shelves
Reader note
- 124 Transmigration: From the Imperial Exams to Chief Grand Secretary 穿越：从科举开始的内阁首辅之路 An ordinary university student transmigrates into the son of a small landowner in ancient times. He takes the imperial exams and enters government service under the Great Feng dynasty, rising through the ranks step by step. Of all pursuits, study is supreme. “What? Young Master Wang has passed the county-level scholar exam!” “Young Master Wang really is impressive!” “Scholar Wang has passed the provincial exam and become a juren!” “I hear Wang, the top scholar in the provincial exam, passed the 37Reads—Score—Shelves
- 125 What?! I Transmigrated into a Farmer's Son from the Start, and Now He Wants to Take the Imperial Exams 惊了！开局穿成农家子，他要科举 [Famine + transmigration + System + farming + imperial examinations + daily life] Shen Yu woke up one morning to find that he had transmigrated. It was bad enough for a science student to end up in ancient times, but he’d arrived in the middle of a famine, with his family having nothing to their name. Luckily, he unlocked a red packet group. Without it, how could he possibly survive in this strange world? The Shen family had one daughter after another. At last, the third son’s family had a bo 1.4kReads8.3Score107Shelves
- 126 The Poor Scholar's Rise: From the Imperial Exams to a Life of Success 寒门贵子：从科举开始平步青云 My family is poor, and I have no means to make a living, so I can only pour my heart into poetry and books. Though beset by hunger and cold, my resolve remains undiminished. Books can cultivate the character, teach the way of great learning, help one serve the world, and even pave the way to success. Though life is hard, I can still find joy in it. [Born into the past + No golden finger + Not a pure wish-fulfillment story. Read at your own discretion.] —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 127 I Only Wanted to Get By, but I Passed the Imperial Exams Six Times in a Row and Shocked the Emperor 本想混口饭，科举连中六元惊陛下 (Alternate history + imperial examinations + heartwarming + everyday family life + one heroine) He Mingfeng transmigrated. The good news: The knowledge in his head was his golden finger. The bad news: He’d become the village idiot. His family was dirt poor, and his grandmother looked at him like he was a burden. A hellish start? No worries! The village idiot suddenly “came to his senses,” leaving the whole village stunned. He caught fish and set up a stall, and had just started making a little m 6.6kReads8.2Score591Shelves
-
128
Transmigration: The Daily Life of an Ancient Imperial Exam Candidate, Son of a Peddler 穿越：商贩之子的古代科举日常
[Imperial Examinations + Alternate History + Everyday Life in Ancient Times + Building Wealth + Slow-Burn + Coming of Age] In his previous life, Lin Xiang’an lost his parents at a young age and grew up dependent on others. After getting into college, he took a leave of absence to serve as a conscript. When he returned from the military and resumed his studies, he started a few businesses and gradually made his fortune. He achieved success at a young age, and his business kept growing. Then, one
2.5kReads7.9Score182Shelves
Reader note
- 129 I Transmigrated to Ancient Times, but My Brother Seems Even More Like a Transmigrator Than I Do 穿越古代我哥比我还像穿越者 Alternate World / Ancient Era / Farming / Imperial Exams After a plane crash, Chen Jingming transmigrates to ancient times and becomes a farmer's son. His family is split up because they need to pay for his medical treatment, and his older brother goes missing. Later, the eldest brother returns from a long journey and sends him to school. Eldest Brother: “Little brother, our family's honor rests entirely on you!” But later, as he watches the family estate grow, Chen Jingming realizes that the 15.2kReads9.0Score1.9kShelves
- 130 The Imperial Exams: Uncle, A Commoner’s Rise Depends on You 科举：叔啊，泥腿子翻身就靠你了 My new book, After Refusing to Rejoin My Ancestral Clan, I Became a Sage Through the Imperial Exams, is out now. Come check it out! After transmigrating as the youngest son of a farming family, he finds himself with nothing but bare walls. The immense wealth he built in business in his previous life did not come with him, and everything he knows is useless here. His widowed mother is at the top of the household, his widowed sister-in-law in the middle, and his nieces and nephews at the bottom. H 1.6kReads8.3Score107Shelves
-
131
My Ancestors’ Graves Started Smoking from the Start: Disguised as a Man, I Take the Imperial Exams 开局祖坟冒青烟，女扮男装科举忙
Xie Yuheng transmigrates from the Apocalypse to a farming household, where a tyrant rules the land. With no other choice, she disguises herself as a boy. As she grows older, everyone in the surrounding villages comes to know that the Xie family's prodigy has an exceptionally clever mind. Too bad he's a sickly weakling who can't lift a finger or carry a load. Bystander: “You're so noble, so impressive! Your sickly family member just kicked someone through a wall!” The Xie family: “Does the head o
12.1kReads9.2Score1.7kShelves
Reader note
- 132 On the Imperial Exams, Who Knows Who'll Be the One Sweating? 论科举，谁卷谁还不知道呢 In his previous life, he was visiting Dujiangyan with his mentor to draw up reinforcement plans when one misstep cost him everything. When Zhang Shi’an opened his eyes again, he was holding a little stick, facing a golden field of rice. The rice looked unusually small, though. Before he could figure out what he was doing, he spotted several sparrows feasting on the rice. His hands reacted even faster than his mind. He raised the stick and swung it at them. The thieving sparrows soon flew up into 489Reads7.7Score—Shelves
- 133 The Imperial Exams: A Farmer’s Son Has His Day in the Sun 科举，农家子也有春天 One day, Fang Ping’an, a left-behind child, transmigrates to ancient times. He has no extraordinary opportunities and no influential benefactors. How can he turn his life around? The medicine shop has no one he knows. Who would buy the herbs you gather? He knows no one in the world of the imperial examinations. Who would teach you to read? He has no connections in officialdom. Who would help you get your foot in the door? This is the story of a farmer’s son who, in the midst of a confused and ai 43Reads—Score—Shelves
- 134 I Bought a Bookboy to Take the Imperial Exam for Me. Now I'm Accused of Stealing His Honors? 买书童替本少科举，告我偷功名？ [Transmigrated into a Book as a Cannon-Fodder + Embroidered Uniform Guard + Imperial Exams + Officialdom + Rooting Out Treacherous Ministers + Fighting the Tartars + Empress] Also known as: The Young Master Strikes Back Against His Fated Bookish Servant, Passes the Imperial Exams, and Saves China After transmigrating into the book as Lin Zhi, a young master destined to be cannon fodder, he finds himself caught in a ridiculous plot where his servant uses the young master as a stepping-stone in th 1.3kReads7.6Score145Shelves
-
135
The Road to Power Begins in the Red-Light District 科举，从勾栏开始的权臣之路
[Traditional imperial examinations + nation-building and court intrigue + technical-progression power fantasy] [An engineering-school punk transmigrates into a dim-witted child at a brothel, then shakes up the court with his blueprints!] Lin Fan, a modern civil engineer, gets smacked in the face with a brick at a construction site. When he opens his eyes, he's become a six-year-old, mentally disabled boy at the Yihong Courtyard in the state of Qi! Frail and beautiful, he's despised by everyone a
5Reads6.7Score—Shelves
Reader note
-
136
I Transmigrated, and They Made Me Emperor! 一朝穿越，我被黄袍加身了！
Also known as The Finest Young Master from a Humble Family One month after transmigrating, a woman I've never even met wants to be my wife? And she wants to have my babies! What does it matter if the dynasty is in chaos and the times are turbulent, even if I'm out in the countryside, far from the centers of power? Foreign enemies are invading and want to take my money? Dream on!
837Reads8.6Score102Shelves
Reader note
-
137
I Debate the Classics with Great Scholars in the Embroidered Uniform Guard 我在锦衣卫跟大儒辩经
Yang Zhi, a top salesman and philosophy graduate student in his previous life, transmigrates to the end of the Zhengde era of the Ming Dynasty. Through a twist of fate, he joins the Embroidered Uniform Guard, passes the imperial examination, enters the Hanlin Academy, and debates the classics with the great scholars at court!
5kReads8.8Score354Shelves
Reader note
-
138
The Mosquito Who Loves Gossip 爱听八卦的蚊子
A mosquito with a passion for gossip unexpectedly transmigrates into a child in ancient times. Growing up surrounded by chatter, he develops a keen ear for people and their motives. On the path to the imperial examinations, gossip gives him a head start; as an official at court, rumors help him unravel mysteries. Though he spends his life navigating the storms of court politics, this unique talent lets him find a secure footing amid a treacherous world and write an extraordinary tale.
31Reads—Score—Shelves
Reader note
- 139 The Daily Life of a Minor Official's Son Preparing for the Imperial Exams 小官之子科举日常 [Woman Transmigrates into a Man + Imperial Exams + Farmer's Son + No Problematic Family Members + No Pocket Dimension + No Golden Finger] Lin He, a graduate student in history, transmigrates into the Great Qi, a dynasty that never existed in history, and goes from being a woman to a man. His family has nothing to its name: his father is a catlike academic prodigy, his mother a tigerlike farmer, and Lin He's life is a constant struggle. Fortunately, his father earned the jinshi degree early on, a 1.8kReads8.8Score130Shelves
-
140
I’m So Rich, the Emperor Won’t Even Pay My Salary 因为我太有钱陛下就不给发俸禄
Yang Jingyun was born into the Great Qian dynasty. He never expected to find himself in a family packed with brothers, where every day was a struggle of schemes and calculations. Hoping to build a better life for himself, Yang Jingyun began setting up workshops to make sugar, brew liquor, and produce candles and soap, leading his clan to prosperity. Unexpectedly, he caught the emperor’s attention and earned the emperor’s favor. Not only was he granted noble status, but his whole family was ennob
537Reads7.0Score135Shelves
Reader note
-
141
The Useless Disciple of the Hehuan Sect 合欢宗废材
[Absurd comedy + traditional fantasy + multiple heroines + espionage + battles of wits] Ye Huan is a disciple so disappointing that even the Hehuan Sect wants nothing to do with him. By chance, he obtains an inheritance, and from then on becomes a man who can hold up the heavens. One way for men to survive in the Hehuan Sect is to become spies. As it happens, Ye Huan is an espionage enthusiast, and with his exceptional powers of logical deduction, he matches wits with all sides on the covert fro
1.8kReads7.2Score173Shelves
Reader note
-
142
The Immortal Legion Sweeps All Before It 仙之军团，横扫无敌
Gods fill the heavens, cultivators stretch without end, and the universe is swept clean. Iron-blooded men weep as they march to war, determined to become immortals and slay every hypocrite, restoring a pure land to the world. In the world of cultivation, there is no compassion, only family ties. On the road to heaven, there is no right or wrong. Cultivate body and mind, and become invincible in the Immortal Realm!
6Reads—Score—Shelves
Reader note
-
143
Fate Reversed: Transmigrate and Change Your Destiny 命运逆转，穿越改命
[Cherished by Everyone]+ [Special Forces]+ [Spatial Realm]+ [Comedy]+ [Historical Romance]+ [Genius]+ [Reborn in the Womb]+ [Historical Fantasy]+ [Farming] In 2053, war breaks out in Country Z. Special Forces soldier Gu Ming is killed by a gunshot while on a mission. Fortunately, fate gives him a second life: he transmigrates, and is reborn in the womb! He is born in the Great Yu Kingdom, in the northern frontier village of Gujia, as the eldest son of Gu Sanniu, the third son of the Gu family. W
9.4kReads8.7Score952Shelves
Reader note
-
144
Jade Radiance of the Immortal Path 仙道玲珑
(Xianxia novel, no System, no brainless power-ups) (Cultivation stages: Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, Illumination Realm, Heartbeat Realm, and Immortal Realm) Everyone says the path to immortality means refining qi, building a foundation, forming a golden core, reaching illumination, stirring the heart, and entering the immortal realm! But my master told me that these so-called cultivation stages are nothing but a scam invented by self-proclaimed cultivators to inflate thei
160Reads—Score—Shelves
Reader note
-
145
The Ming Dynasty’s Literary Champion 大明文魁
In the third year of the Xuande reign, Lin Wenyuan, a top history student, unexpectedly transmigrated into the body of a poor scholar in Kunshan County, South Zhili, Ming China. When he woke, he found himself in a home stripped bare, with a frail body left behind by the original owner's high fever after being caught in the rain. In an era when the imperial examinations were the only path to success, he had neither an illustrious family nor exceptional talent. All he could rely on was knowledge f
136Reads—Score—Shelves
Reader note
- 146 Ming Dynasty Natives Versus Transmigrators 皇明土著大战穿越众 Current plot: A newcomer to officialdom enters the inner circle as a pawn, but refuses to settle for mediocrity and wants to break free of his constraints. By chance, he gets caught up in turmoil on the frontier, where three hundred battered soldiers rout thirty thousand northern invaders. Zheng Zhi, a household retainer of the Zhen Ding Guard under the Ming rear army's Governor's Office, dreams of himself sixty years in the future. From then on, the Ming Dynasty gains a peerless talent in both 146Reads8.2Score—Shelves
-
147
The Savage Era 蛮荒记
[Primordial World, Invincible, Otherworld, the Myriad Worlds, Female Lead, No Harem, World-Destroying] One flower, one world. One leaf, one pursuit. One song, one sigh. One lifetime devoted to one person. One glance, one breathtaking beauty. One step, one descent into obsession. One thought, one dream. One lifetime spent waiting for one person. Pangu, alone with an axe, fought across the highest heavens, all for the sake of waiting for one person in this life…
5.3kReads7.0Score433Shelves
Reader note
- 148 I Learn to Slay Gods in the Asylum 我在疯人院学斩神 Youmeng, the worst student in her class, fought her way through every challenge and finally made it into Huaqing, the university she had dreamed of attending. She thought she could finally breathe easy and enjoy the college life she’d longed for, looking down on everyone from the top. But then... Among Huaqing’s four notorious madhouses, packed with geniuses, she was still at the bottom!!! Dou Xiaoyao roared, “I’m going to take down the gods...” 10Reads—Score—Shelves
- 149 The Divine Beast Unleashed 神兽出笼 [Transmigration] [System] [Genius] When I wake from a dream, all my fingertips touch is a tear track from a thousand years of cultivation. The mortal world, drifting flowers, crimson streams: I forgot Buddha's life. Soft fragrance, misty rain, hazy madness: a single dream of benevolence. A thousand years of cultivation, all for this life, to meet him and fall for the mortal seed in his eyes. Amid the ten thousand feet of worldly dust, I take a step and look back. Is it fate, a trial, a debt, or 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 150 The Fox Immortal of Tianmen! 天门狐仙！ There is a love that was born for you, and a vow to stay by your side through life and death. There is a belief that true love knows no bounds, and a devotion to be captivating for no one but you. The orphan Su Wulan made his living chopping wood. One day, he happened to save a fox spirit, and from then on embarked on a path defying the immortals. A doomed romance takes root, and turmoil follows... See how Su Wulan, for Hu Feiyan's sake, dares the Stairway to Heaven, opens Heaven's Gate with a s 13Reads—Score—Shelves
Other lists with The Road to the Top: A Restaurant from the Start