In this list
Reader notes translated by Google Translate
185
-
151
Run! Wei Zheng Is Bringing His Son to Court! 快跑，魏征扛着他儿子上朝了！
Year Seven of the Zhenguan era. A thunderous boom sounded in the sky, and I transmigrated into Wei Shuyu. As Wei Zheng's beloved son, shouldn't I help my father with his troubles? Li Shimin secretly hiding spending money? Take a break, Dad. I'll chew him out. Li Shimin wanting to take a concubine? Take a break, Dad. I'll chew him out. Li Shimin wanting to lead a personal campaign? Take a break, Dad. I'll chew him out... In short, whatever Li Shimin does, we oppose it. That's how you earn a reput
22.9kReads9.0Score2.6kShelves
Reader note
- 152 That Criminal Acts Too Well: The Special Police Asked How Many Years I’d Been Inside 凶犯演太好，特警问我蹲过几年 (Criminal mastermind + showbiz + a little bit of people imagining things) Li Si obtains the [Crime System], and from then on, the entertainment industry gains an oddball. When other people's new movies come out, their fans cheer with excitement. When his new movie comes out, his fans only ask one thing: “Boss, the special police still haven't hauled you off to jail?” Film Emperor: “The first time I acted opposite him, I thought the crew had hired someone straight out of prison. But it turned 4kReads9.2Score570Shelves
-
153
What Cultivation? I’d Rather Just Study for the Imperial Exams 什么修仙啊，还是老实考科举吧
[Reborn in the Womb + Female Soul in a Male Body + Imperial Exams + Ancient Farming + Cultivation?] No spatial System. After dying suddenly, the girl Li Jinhua was mistakenly reborn in a boy’s body and became Li Wufang. She thought she was destined to be the protagonist, and could win with ease, but in reality she still had to study and work hard on her own. She thought she would have to settle for taking the imperial exams. Who could have guessed she would stumble into cultivation instead? Heav
1Reads—Score—Shelves
Reader note
-
154
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
-
155
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
-
156
A Scholarly Home in the Countryside: Raising a Husband to Become the Top Scholar 农门书香：养个相公当状元
A love story about one person exhausting every effort to reason patiently and persuade, while the other fights back with all their might. At first, Li Xinhui only wanted to mold him into a shrewd, tactful yet principled powerbroker with a calculating mind. But did pushing him too hard end up raising him all wrong?
52Reads8.7Score—Shelves
Reader note
- 157 The Tough Farmer's Wife: The Chief Minister Is Wooed Again 农门悍妻：首辅大人苏又撩 Song Zhaoxi transmigrates into a book and becomes the male lead’s foolish ex-wife, married off to bring him good fortune. Despicable relatives, a bare-walled home, and a miserable life. Song Zhaoxi wipes away a bitter tear, rolls up her sleeves, and gets rich. The despicable ones line up to kneel and sing her praises! The only person she fears is the male lead, known as the Living King of Hell. Luckily, she got the supporting female character’s script, so she can run away whenever she wants! - E 8.3kReads9.2Score858Shelves
-
158
The Imperial Exams: Soaring Ninety Thousand Miles 科举之扶摇直上九万里
Li Yanqing transmigrated to the Great Qi, a fictional dynasty. He told himself, “No need to worry. I’m a doctor of traditional Chinese medicine. I can make a good life for myself anywhere.” But his father died, leaving behind a final wish: Li Yanqing should study, take the imperial exams, become an official, and make something of himself. To fulfill his father’s wish, Li Yanqing embarked on a decade of arduous study. Li Yanqing thought that since fate had brought him here, he ought to make use o
2.1kReads8.7Score145Shelves
Reader note
-
159
From the Start, the Favoring Decree Made Me an Enemy of the Entire Dynasty 开局推恩令我得罪了整个王朝
"Confucian and Daoist cultivation + fantasy + xianxia + no System + no female lead + literary feuds + conspiracy theories" This book has few typos and works well as an audiobook. Library security guard Su Mu unexpectedly transmigrates, taking the place of a poor scholar who died in the imperial examination hall. To lay the original owner's lingering obsession to rest, Su Mu writes a policy essay on governing the country that moves the heavens and earns the favor of the nation's fortune, purify
227Reads5.5Score—Shelves
Reader note
- 160 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
-
161
The Poor Scholar Who Squandered His Family’s Wealth 寒门败家子
Also known as Back to Ancient Times to Build a Factory. Main characters: Wang Yuan and Li Shihan. After transmigrating to ancient times and into a poor family, Wang Yuan had nothing to his name, yet he started squandering money! He poured mud into brown sugar, mixed limewater into lard, dumped government salt into a pond, boiled government liquor in a pot, set a live ox’s tail on fire, and handed money to every beggar he saw... These bizarre ways of wasting money left the imperial clan, powerful
6.8kReads8.4Score854Shelves
Reader note
-
162
The Peerless Poet Sage 无双诗圣
[Confucian Fantasy + One Female Lead] The Great Zhou Dynasty is an age when poetry and prose can move the world! Write a fine poem, and you'll gain peerless literary fame, praised throughout the land. You can even stir the power of heaven and earth, turning it into countless arrows that rain down on enemy nations! Poetry and prose hold tremendous power in this era. After transmigrating, he finds that his fiancée has joined forces with outsiders to bully him? Ha! With the literary treasures of fi
5.7kReads8.5Score427Shelves
Reader note
- 163 The Poor Scholar's Son 寒门庶子 He wakes up to a bare house and a pair of big, watery eyes staring at him. So adorable... My heart... Wait, was that girl there when I was drinking last night? Please tell me I didn't do anything criminal? A constable's shout comes from outside: “Zhang San, pay your taxes or you'll end up in jail!” Damn it... The Great Wei has been established for decades. On the surface, all is calm, but beneath it, the waters are turbulent. With powerful enemies abroad, wealthy clans at home, and remnants of t 7Reads6.1Score—Shelves
- 164 Ruling the Realm 宰执天下 The ruler governs as prime minister; the executor administers the state. Serving the monarch above and bringing peace to the common people below, with all ministers yielding the way and receiving honors above every official: this is the prime minister. Assisting in government, setting national policy, and countersigning imperial edicts, second only to the prime minister: this is the chief administrator. After an air disaster, He Fang leaped a thousand years into the past, returning to the Northe 505Reads9.0Score—Shelves
-
165
A Top Scholar Hailed by a Hundred Sages! And You Call Him a Sour Confucian Scholar? 百圣齐鸣的状元郎！你管这叫酸儒秀才？
Also known as: I Became a Sage Through Reading [Transmigration] [Feel-Good Wish Fulfillment] [The Way of Literature] A masterpiece of Confucian cultivation: [Takes off at Chapter 89, explodes at Chapter 93] “If you, Lin Yi, had not been born, the literary path would have languished in darkness for ten thousand years!” This is a world where reading grants literary talent. Lin Yi reads Earth’s Classic of Poetry, Songs of Chu, Han fu poetry, Tang poetry, and Song ci poetry, cultivating a noble spir
822Reads8.8Score143Shelves
Reader note
- 166 I Became a Sage of Confucianism and the Dao by Copying Poetry 我靠抄诗成儒道圣人 In the Haoran Realm, scholars’ words become law, and they wield the power of heaven and earth. Those who temper their bodies with righteous energy slay enemies with poetry, destroy kingdoms with verse, and use their writings to command the world’s respect. Ding Erdou transmigrates here carrying five thousand years of Chinese poetry and prose. He will write his way to sainthood, protect humanity, drive out demons, and set a chaotic world right. 2.8kReads8.1Score188Shelves
- 167 Transmigrated as a Hunter's Mother-in-Law: Farming, Flirting with Men, and Raising Kids 穿成猎户婆婆：种田撩汉养崽崽 Retired special forces soldier Mu Qing... She failed to save someone and was forced to take on a new body herself. In the blink of an eye, she went from an “old maid” to “the winner of life.” She didn’t just have children, she even had a granddaughter. Her life fast-forwarded straight to the top. Mu Qing thought she could enjoy her retirement at the top of the food chain... But the road ahead was still long... Woe is me... 1.4kReads9.0Score103Shelves
- 168 Chen Sanbao's Daily Struggles in Ancient Times 陈三宝古代奋斗日常 A modern-day hoodlum transmigrated into an unknown era and became Chen Sanbao, a member of the Chen family in Chenjia Village, at the foot of the Beilu Mountains! No golden finger, no pocket dimension, no protagonist’s halo. All he has is the everyday struggle of an ordinary person at the bottom of society! The protagonist is far from perfect. He’s impulsive and quick-tempered, has no advanced education or exceptional intelligence, longs for family affection, and feels compassion for the disadva 10.4kReads8.7Score752Shelves
-
169
The Imperial Exams: A Concubine-Born Son's Rise from Lowly Officialdom 科举：小官庶子逆袭之路
[Civil service exams + System + heroine appears in the middle and later parts + feel-good power fantasy + making a name in history] In his previous life, Li Runping was abandoned at the entrance to an orphanage and later adopted by it. Growing up there, he learned early on that you had to fight for everything. But things never went his way, and he always fell just short of success. Whether it was an exam or a promotion review, he was always just a little behind. As he got older, he realized he h
68Reads5.5Score—Shelves
Reader note
- 170 I Became the Uncrowned King Through the Imperial Exams, So I Won't Take the Throne 科举卷到无冕之王，老子就不登基 [A reading guide: Imperial examinations + solving cases = a promotion guide to ancient criminal investigation] Huang Dingzhou is reborn in the Jin dynasty as the thirteenth legitimate son of the Duke of Protecting the State's household. Yet as the youngest legitimate son, he is neither loved by his father nor cared for by his mother, and is kept under strict supervision. By a twist of fate, he discovers that he is not truly a legitimate son. After finally passing the imperial examinations, he re 29Reads8.6Score—Shelves
- 171 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
-
172
I Find the Top Scholar So Charming 我见探花多娇媚
Jing Bao has three wishes: First, protect the family estate of the main branch; second, enter the Imperial College, place third in the palace examinations, and bring honor to the family; third, keep living as a man in disguise until the end. Lord Gu has three wishes too: First, help someone protect their family estate; second, help that someone place third in the palace examinations; third, bring the disguised top scorer home and make her the mistress of the household.
4.1kReads9.4Score756Shelves
Reader note
-
173
The Poor Scholar's Imperial Exams: Six Top Scores in a Row 寒门科举，连中六元
[Imperial exams + transmigration + System + not a power fantasy + everyday life] One moment, Wang Yuanqing transmigrates, and the next he's the only son in a farming family in Wangjia Village, Great Yuan, with seven beautiful older sisters. His family has next to nothing, and in an era when everything else is considered inferior to scholarship, Wang Yuanqing must climb the ranks step by step to protect his family.
56Reads—Score—Shelves
Reader note
- 174 A Poor Scholar's Road to the Top Scholar Title 寒门子弟的状元之路 He was an ordinary university student, but a chance encounter transmigrates him to ancient times. Follow his journey as he rises from humble beginnings, studies hard for the imperial examinations, earns the title of top scholar, and sets out on the path to becoming chief minister. 50Reads5.8Score—Shelves
- 175 If I Don’t Take the Imperial Exams, Should I Just Farm? 不科举，难道种地？ The new novel Sequence: Creator is currently being serialized. Give it a read! It's a story about surviving the apocalypse. Thank you 🙏. [Alternate History] [Imperial Examinations] [Plagiarist] [Political Scheming] [Farming] [No System] The barbarians on all four frontiers: anyone who dares invade will see their nation destroyed, their people wiped out, and their descendants cut off. I want this golden age to be exactly as I envision it. History is long, but I need only make the slightest effort 5.5kReads8.6Score398Shelves
-
176
A Poor Scholar 寒门小书生
Su Ye, a university history student, woke up to find he had transmigrated to the Kingdom of Yue and become a frail scholar. Before he could even process what had happened, he learned that his lovely young wife was about to arrive. A wife from the start? What a deal! Full of anticipation, Su Ye went to the entrance of the village to await his beautiful, delicate wife. Instead, he saw a female swordswoman with striking brows and bright eyes standing before him, bringing along two men whose hands w
24Reads8.0Score—Shelves
Reader note
- 177 The Remarkable Poor Scholar 极品寒士 He transmigrates to the Great Zhou Dynasty, only to unexpectedly get married from the start? With a new wife who has just joined his household and a dirt-poor hut to his name, Li Yi rolls up his sleeves and starts making money, steadily climbing to the peak of success! 43Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 178 The Imperial Exam System: The First Female Chancellor 科举系统之第一女相 At long last, she had finished her postgraduate entrance exams. Who knew she’d suddenly die and wake up bound to the imperial examination System? Her father was dead, her mother was weak, and she was sickly. From the very start, her clan bullied her. At least she was a man, so getting things done would be convenient. Wait, why was she a woman? Never mind. Dressing as a man wasn’t a problem. Just watch her outwork all her classmates! 142Reads5.9Score—Shelves
-
179
I Opened an Academy in Ancient Times 我在古代开书院
What is the highest ambition of a scholarly academy? To have three jinshi among its disciples, with a father and son both ennobled as marquises? Or for every disciple of mine to become a peerless pillar of the nation? Or perhaps to transcend the world, forget the boundaries between self and all things, and use the ideas of a single academy to change the thinking of the entire realm? Dong Yu doesn't know, but he's decided to give it a try.
30Reads6.9Score—Shelves
Reader note
-
180
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
-
181
Blood and Tears Across the Land 山河泣血
In the first year of Jingkang, northern horsemen swept south and Bianliang fell. The emperors Huizong and Qinzong were taken captive, and the Northern Song dynasty was brought to ruin. Cao Gang watched the palaces reduced to rubble and the people driven from their homes. He once led a force to resist, but the court was incompetent and factional strife ran rampant, making it impossible to turn the tide. After the city fell, he lost heart and gave himself over to despair. On the road into exile,
7Reads—Score—Shelves
Reader note
-
182
From the Start, I Cheated in the Imperial Exam, and the Empress Is Actually My Mother 开局科举舞弊，皇后竟是我亲娘
Li Junyan transmigrates to ancient times and becomes the biological child whom the current emperor and empress lost among the people. But his adoptive father is framed and dies a tragic death, he finds himself imprisoned, and his childhood sweetheart wants to break off their engagement. Li Junyan, newly arrived from another world, spreads his hands. “I’m done pretending. I’m going to answer the imperial recruitment notice, save the empress, and reach the pinnacle of life!” After saving the empre
324Reads5.1Score—Shelves
Reader note
- 183 Raising the Family Through Imperial Exams: I Made Our Name Shine by Outworking Everyone 科举兴家：我靠内卷光耀门楣 A vice president at a modern foreign company worked himself to death from overwork, only to transmigrate into the body of a child disguised as a boy. As if that weren't enough, disaster struck from the heavens. The harvest failed completely, plunging all of Daxuan into a food crisis. Her father was missing, her mother suffered endless bullying, and even her father's pension was snatched away by their awful relatives. With her soft-hearted mother and weak older sister unable to do anything, she h 48Reads—Score—Shelves
-
184
Your Majesty, the Top Scholar Is Slacking Off Again and Again 启禀陛下，状元郎他又又又开摆了
[Imperial Exams and Farming]+ [Family Matters]+ [Building Wealth]+ [Scheming]+ [Alternate Ancient Setting] Lu Qilin, a modern enthusiast of intangible cultural heritage, unexpectedly transmigrated. When he woke up, he had become an eight-year-old village boy with a dim mind, whose mother had died young and whose father had disappeared. Fortunately, his grandparents and uncle and aunt truly loved him, and his two older cousins genuinely cared for him. It wasn't the worst start imaginable. Unfortu
13kReads8.5Score1.4kShelves
Reader note
-
185
My Given Name Is Zhang Haogu 学名张好古
In Jinan Prefecture, Shandong, there lived a wealthy man. The rich man had only one son, named Zhang Haogu. Though he couldn't read, he passed the imperial examinations and entered the Hanlin Academy. Somehow, he even became a princess's husband. He only wanted to survive in a time of chaos, but had no choice except to rack his brains and find a way to end the war quickly. Yet war was everywhere: struggle, life and death, country and family. A man should be full of fiery spirit, riding through b
71Reads—Score—Shelves
Reader note
Other lists with Run! Wei Zheng Is Bringing His Son to Court!