Ancient Setting, Imperial Exams, Not from a Poor Family, No System, Transmigration 古代，科举，不是穷苦人家，无系统穿越
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- 51 After Helping Her Sickly Husband Pass the Imperial Exams, She Became Rich Beyond Measure 哄着病娇夫君科举后，她腰缠万贯 [Unhinged Love Interest + Golden Finger + Food + Sweet Romance + One-on-One, Both Pure in Love] Office worker He Zhizhi transmigrates! She has somehow transmigrated into the body of...a woman who was bought as a bride! Her younger brother-in-law is frail, and their home is bare of everything. He Zhizhi declares solemnly, “It's no big deal. Stay calm, and we can win.” So she farms, runs a street stall, and buys a shop. In the end, she even puts a top scholar through his exams! She thought she cou 1.1kReads8.5Score101Shelves
- 52 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
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With a Photographic Memory, Isn’t It Only Natural I Came First in the Imperial Exam? 过目不忘，我中状元正常吧？
Lu Chengan forgot to drink Granny Meng’s soup. One day, he transmigrates to a remote mountain village in the Great Zhou dynasty and becomes the second son of the Lu family’s second son. To take the imperial examinations, Lu Chengan has no choice but to urge his father to better himself. Before he knows it, his father becomes an official. Lu Chengan: Does he still need to work hard?
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An Ambitious Country Boy's Life in Ancient Times 农家小子的古代上进日常
After transmigrating into the body of a farmer's son in ancient times, a poor student had no choice but to embark on the long road of the imperial examinations to improve his family's life. He sought neither wealth and status nor a high salary or lofty office in this life. All he wanted was to protect his family and give them a peaceful life.
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- 55 A Scholar from a Humble Home 寒窗读书人 Bystanders: Xu Sandan’s life is over (watching the drama unfold…) Family: What’s going to become of Sandan? (worrying…) Xu Heng (Xu Sandan): My fate is mine to decide, not Heaven’s (striving…) A story about Xu Heng, who transmigrates into a desperate situation from the start. With a disabled body and a poor family, he fights against a cruel fate step by step through his own efforts, ultimately turning his life around. An uplifting story about farming, cozy everyday life, and hard work. P.S. Ther 4.3kReads8.6Score331Shelves
- 56 The Poor Scholar's Rise 寒门贵子 After transmigrating into the body of a penniless scholar, Jiang Feng thought about how his computer science degree from his previous life was utterly useless here… Then it occurred to him: “Of all pursuits, studying is the noblest. I’ll just have to grit my teeth and take the imperial exams!” He kept going, and when he suddenly looked back, he had risen to the highest offices, expanded the empire’s borders, and built an unprecedented legacy! P.S. The new book, A Poor Scholar of the First Rank, 34.2kReads9.1Score3.4kShelves
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The Imperial Tutor's Road to the Civil Service Exams 农门帝师的科举之路
Imperial Examination, One-on-One Romance After an accident, a young man from the modern era transmigrated into the Great Qian Dynasty. Looking at his family’s dilapidated brick house, Qi Wenyu wondered how he would make a living from then on...
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The Road to the Imperial Examinations for a Poor Scholar 寒门科举之路
After surviving alone in the apocalypse for three years, Yang Han is betrayed by his teammates and scratched by a zombie. Unwilling to turn into one and get his head blown off, he takes his own life. To his surprise, he transmigrates into the body of a farm boy, the only son of a family with a thousand acres of fertile land. He can't handle the backbreaking work in the fields, and since all professions are inferior to studying, he has no choice but to set out on the path to the imperial examinat
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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
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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
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The Integrity of a Humble Scholar 寒门风骨
Three thatched huts and half a mu of farmland, a poor scholar and his farmer’s wife. Great wealth is too much to ask for; a modest, comfortable life is more than enough! Because of online gambling, Zhao Xiaojia transmigrates to another world and becomes a poor commoner. His father has just died, he’s left with nothing but empty walls, he owes two taels of silver, and he has a child bride to support. What can he do? The autumn harvest is just around the corner, and the authorities, bandits, and b
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- 62 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
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The Poor Scholar 寒门文星
Chen Yan, a six-year-old farmer’s son, beats the powerful minister’s son in the county exam and takes first place. Overnight, he goes from a poor country boy to the literary prodigy everyone in town is talking about. But he knows that being first is a poisoned chalice. The Vice Minister of Personnel’s son hates him to the core, the county magistrate is plotting to ruin him, and even his uncle’s family is eager to take a bite out of him. In his previous life, he was a master of classical studies.
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After Lifting Weights Three Million Times, I Became My Daughter's Heroic Spirit 撸铁三百万次，我成了女儿的英灵
At the Spirit Pact Ceremony... “Zhao Tao, your spirit looks pretty ordinary. It doesn’t seem to have any special talents.” “It is pretty ordinary. It’s just a little stronger than most.”
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Cast Out of the Marquis's Residence, I Rise from Poverty to Become the Top Scholar 被逐出侯府，我寒门崛起成状元
The score was just posted, so it’ll gradually go up as the story progresses. [Imperial exams and farming] + [Fictional ancient setting] Jiang Huai unexpectedly transmigrated into a book and became the second young master of the Marquis of Yongning’s household. Unfortunately, he wasn’t the Marquis’s biological son, so Jiang Huai was sent along with the original owner to live in the impoverished countryside. His new home had nothing but bare walls. They were dirt poor. No matter. He wrote popular
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Your Majesty, Something’s Wrong! Su Zhe Is Rebelling to Save His Brother 官家不好了，苏辙救兄心切造反了
The Nine Tripods appear, and the True Emperor rises. The Jiuli submit, and the people are brought to heel! Han Qi: The realm cannot go a single day without a ruler. Your Majesty should make plans now and adopt a son from the imperial clan to reassure the people! Zhao Zhen: My son is dead! Wen Yanbo: The thirteenth son of the Prince of Runan is a worthy candidate. He is unquestionably the best choice to become the future Crown Prince of Great Song! Zhao Zhen: Will anyone spare a thought for me? M
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The Heavenly Book: The Imperial Star Descends to the Mortal World, One Sword Proves the Dao 天书：帝星化凡，一剑证道
[A golden-scaled dragon is no pond-dweller. Soon, the Heavenly Book will descend from the ninth heaven!] What would happen if Dugu Qiubai lived for a thousand years? A Heavenly Book spans a thousand years of China’s history, bringing him into contact with humans, demons, immortals, and Buddhas. (A historical cultivation novel about immortality, featuring Confucian, Buddhist, and Daoist ideas that may be difficult for most readers. Not a wish-fulfillment story; slow burn, so read with care.) [Imm
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Zhang Juzheng's Unusual Life 张居正的别样人生
Imperial examinations, a soul transmigration, and saving the Ming from collapse. Zhang Juzheng, the six-time examination laureate, will no longer keep his head down in this life. I’ll beat Yan Shifan to a pulp. I’ll raise Longqing well, so the Jiajing Emperor can devote himself to cultivating in peace.
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A Northern Song Dynasty Guide to Climbing the Official Ladder 北宋升官手册
The ratings just opened. They'll go up later. [Historical Transmigration] [Imperial Examinations] [Officialdom] [Political Intrigue] [Farming] [No System] What were the regrets of the Northern Song Dynasty? Was it that Liu Yong's lyrics were sung throughout the land, while he himself spent half his life in disappointment? Was it that Fan Zhongyan cared deeply for the realm, yet his Qingli Reforms were abandoned halfway through? Or was it the unfulfilled ambition to pacify the Rong, amid the nort
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The Empress Has Always Been Devoted, Because I Taught Her 女帝始终如一，因为是我教的
[The rating just came in, and a synopsis can never do the story justice. Read the novel to find out.] “Sir, what does ‘All under Heaven belongs to the king’ mean?” “It means everything in the world belongs to the emperor.” “Oh...” “Then if I become emperor, everything in the world will be mine, and you, Sir... will naturally be mine too?” “In theory, yes.” Back then, Gu Chang'an thought it was just an innocent joke from a child. Years later, the empress ruled all under Heaven. In the great hall,
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The Top Scholar Is Real, and So Is the Beggar 状元是真的，乞丐也是真的
Shen Mo, a Peking University history professor, wakes up one day as a nameless beggar. No household registration, no food, no shoes, and only a yellow dog so thin its skin clings to its bones. He spent thirty years studying the imperial examinations in his previous life, yet in this one he cannot even get near an exam hall. From a ruined temple to the Golden Throne Hall, from eating tree bark to earning top honors. The top scholar is real, and so is the beggar.
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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
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A Confusion in the Scholars' Grove 儒林误
History books are written by men, recording men's achievements and defining women's chastity and virtue. Lin Xi is determined to rewrite them with her own hands. Under the name Lin Shu, she enters the male-dominated world of Confucian scholars and navigates the company of renowned men. She admires the gentle warmth of her idealized love, Qu Jingyu; sees through the hypocrisy of the amorous Du Shenqing; and respects the valor of the chivalrous Xiao Yunxian. In the end, she chooses Du Shaoqing, a
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Imperial Exam Triumph: The Strongest Female Grand Secretary 科举逆袭：最强女首辅
After finally becoming the first female heir in her family, she opens her eyes and finds herself back before the revolution. Her father is dead from the start, leaving her with a frail mother and three beautiful older sisters. She is the only son who can carry on the Cheng family line... Cheng Qing looks down at her slightly developed chest, wondering what on earth went wrong. Surrounded by scheming wolves, Cheng Qing, now with a new soul in her body, sets herself two small goals: First, keep pr
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