Historical Imagination📚🌱farmer's Warmth, the Road to the Imperial Examination🌱📚 历史脑洞📚🌱农家温情，科举之路🌱📚
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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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I’m a Laid-Back Prince, So Stop Sending Your Men to Their Deaths 本王很咸鱼，你们别送人头了
Su Congli transmigrated. To stay alive, he studied day and night and threw himself into the imperial examinations. Who could have guessed? At the provincial exam: “What are you staring at, chief examiner?” At the metropolitan exam: “Why do these examiners all seem so strange?” At the palace exam: “Oh! Isn’t that guy sitting in the throne hall the one who stares at me every night?” Emperor Qiyuan prided himself on being a wise ruler of his age, blessed with extraordinary fortune. Who knew he’d ru
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A Farmer's Son's Rise in the Imperial Exams: The Wisest Under Heaven 农家子的科举逆袭：智冠天下
[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
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Reborn: Clinging to the Capital's Zen Master, I Crush the Scumbags! 重生后，抱紧京圈佛子虐渣渣！
In her previous life, Qiao Mian was blind to the truth and foolish in matters of the heart. She let down Li Ye Han, who loved her more than life itself, and was brutally murdered by a scumbag and his mistress. She died with regrets! Reborn, she turns ruthless, regains her wits, and clings to Li Ye Han's support, vowing to make everyone who ever hurt her pay in blood! So when she sets fires, he pours on the oil. When she takes down scumbags, he backs her up. With Lord Li at her side, the world is
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The Zhou Family's Daughter Has Come of Age 周家有女初长成
[Fictional setting, ensemble cast, everyday family life and a slow, steady pace, no rebirth, transmigration, or golden finger] The Zhou family goes from prosperity to hardship, then finds rebirth after their home is shattered, weathering the rises and falls of the dynasty and the world around them. With hearts full of ambition, yet beset by wolves and tigers, they learn that standing strong and relying on themselves is better than fleeing and seeking refuge. Through one girl's growth, we witness
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Alternate Ancient China: Building a Fortune in Jiangnan 架空古代：江南人家经营致富日常
[Ancient-Style Business and Wealth-Building] + [A Jiangnan Family] + [Everyday Family Life] + [Lighthearted, Sweet, and Satisfying] A lighthearted, stress-relieving story about the everyday business and family life of a small household in peaceful Jiangnan, filled with warmth, joy, kindness, and ordinary domestic moments. It tells the story of common people in ancient times. The main characters are not princes or ministers, nor are they members of noble or aristocratic families. From the very st
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In the Famine, the Whole Village Chews Tree Bark, but My System Fills My Storeroom with Meat 荒年全村啃树皮，我有系统满仓肉
[Farming + feel-good wish fulfillment + System + adorable kids + no male lead] Cheng Wanqun woke up in the body of a 33-year-old farmer's wife in ancient Dahuang Village. Her four sons were kneeling by the bed, calling her Mother, and her daughter-in-law had another grandchild on the way. After being single her entire life for 33 years, she'd suddenly become a mother-in-law and grandmother. Raising four sons was already hard enough, but then disaster struck: locust plagues, droughts, snowstorms.
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No System? I’ll Still Become the Top Scholar and Grand Secretary 没有系统？我照样考状元当首辅
[No golden finger + No pocket dimension + Heartwarming family + No ridiculous characters] [The male lead works hard and climbs the ranks one step at a time through his own efforts] [The male lead is devoted; the female lead appears fairly late. The story begins with the imperial examinations and later moves into officialdom] [No forced stupidity, no self-righteous saint, and no fake innocent heroine] Xu Xingfeng, a county-level civil servant in a twenty-first-century town, suddenly finds himself
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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
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From Peasant Roots to Sixfold Top Scholar in the Imperial Exams 穿成泥腿子，一路科举连中六元
[The short drama adaptation is now streaming] A modern SSS-rank researcher dies suddenly and transmigrates to the Great Xing Dynasty. His health is so poor that he's not allowed to pick rice in the fields until he's six. Sunstruck and light-headed, Li Jing decides that farming with this body is a risky business, so he immediately resolves to study for the imperial examinations. That's what he's good at; the transplanting can be left to the professionals! The following year, now named Li Yiqing,
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Ding! With an Immortal Achievement, the Cousin Miss Starts Reading 叮，成就流芳百世，表小姐开卷了
Xu Yue transmigrates into a book. She becomes the delicate, vulnerable cousin of the male lead in an examination-themed novel: her mother died young, she has no brothers and no one to rely on, and her family won't take her in, so she is awkwardly forced to live in the male lead's home. In her previous life, Xu Yue rose from being an orphan to earning a doctorate. She never believed in fate, and even though it was hard for women to get by in ancient times, she never stopped thinking about how to
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A Woman Transmigrates as a Man: A Farmer’s Road to the Imperial Exams 女穿男：农家子的科举青云路
[Female-to-male transmigration + imperial examinations + romance later on + remembered in history + founding the family tree] In her previous life, Qin Huan grew up in an orphanage and worked her way into a university degree. She landed a job at a major company and was on the verge of reaching the pinnacle of success. Her only regret was never having much family to speak of. When she opened her eyes again, she had traveled from modern times to the past, and from a woman to a man. She had become
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I, Sun Shan, and the Imperial Examinations 我，孙山，科举
“Imperial exams + transmigration + farming + exams + no space System” “Romance included, devoted male lead. The female lead is his childhood sweetheart, but she appears infrequently. Romance is not the main plot.” “The male lead rises step by step through hard work and good luck.” “The male lead is no good at scheming, but he gets things done and has technical skills.” “The imperial examination system is based on the Ming and Qing dynasties.” After an accident, he is transmigrated into the womb
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I Transmigrate to Great Qi: How I Became a Worthy Minister of the Age 穿越大齐，看我如何成为一代贤臣
(Transmigration) + (farming) + (daily life) + (imperial examinations) (no System) + (court politics) Chen Chuyi was reborn into a poor family in Beishui Village, carrying the memories of his past life. At first, he only wanted to earn a little money to improve his family's life. But in this unfamiliar ancient world, he was always afraid someone would take his family's money and eat their food. In the end, he embarked on the path of study and the imperial examinations. He knew that only by changi
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You Dumped Me After I Passed the Scholar Exam, So Why Are You Crying Now That I’m Rich? 中秀才就休妻，我暴富你又哭什么
The moment Ye Caiping opened her eyes, she found herself a divorced woman, with her sister-in-law back home sharpening a knife against her. It wasn't that her sister-in-law was unreasonable. The original owner of this body was simply too awful! How awful? Here, take a look: Whenever her husband's family needed to build a house, if there was even a single grain of surplus food at her parents' home, she'd come sniffing around like a mad dog and take it all. So her mother-in-law could eat meat ever
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The First Thing I Did as a County Magistrate: Feed the Whole County 做女县令第一件事：让全县吃饱饭
[Farming + infrastructure development + improving people’s livelihoods + System + a female magistrate’s rise to power] Shen Zheng opens her eyes to find she’s become a newly appointed female magistrate. The county office is so poor that plaster is crumbling off the walls, and the granary is so empty even the mice stay away. Everyone knows that the poorest county in all of Liuyang Prefecture is this very county, Tong’an. Just as she thinks she’ll have to waste three years in Tong’an before retiri
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Livestreaming the Exam: Forging an Immortal Qin, Divine Han, and Sacred Tang 直播考试：铸仙秦神汉圣唐
[History + Farming + Wild Imagination + Stealing Crops + Lighthearted] Bai Ze binds to the Myriad Dynasties Quiz System after experiencing an 18X-violating emotion. In the quiz space, renowned emperors through the ages arrive one after another, including Qin Shi Huang, Liu Che, Li Shimin, and Zhu Yuanzhang. First Exam [In the five thousand years of China's long history, which of the following emperors can be called the greatest emperor of all time?] A. Emperor Taizong of Tang B. The God of War o
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The Number One Strategist from a Poor Family 寒门第一枭士
After getting drunk, modern mechanical engineer Lin Hai accidentally transmigrates to the Great Xia Dynasty. When he wakes up, he discovers that his family has nothing, and he's relying on his wife to support him. His predecessor had used his status as a scholar to act superior, setting his sights too high and refusing to do manual labor. He nearly drove his wife to despair. What a sorry excuse for a man! Lin Hai looks down at his treasure of a wife, who would rather eat grass roots herself t
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A Poor Scholar and His Convenient Little Bride 寒门书生，开局捡个便宜小娇妻
Zhao Ce transmigrates to the Ming Dynasty, becoming an impoverished scholar with a terrible reputation. He also discovers that he borrowed money to get married, then squandered it all, and ended up buying a pitiful little cripple on the way back to make up the numbers. The little cripple has mismatched eyes and is treated like a monster. Zhao Ce: What kind of miserable life is this? A disastrous start? But when he takes another look at the little cripple, so tiny and thin, blinking those big eye
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Rise from Humble Beginnings 寒门崛起
When I open my eyes, I find that I have transmigrated to Shanghe Village, a small mountain village in the Great Xia Dynasty. I have a lovely wife, but a severe drought and famine have left my family so poor we're almost starving. But it doesn't matter. Those nine years of compulsory education weren't for nothing. The candied fruit skewers I make sell all across the country. The poems and songs I write are recited by scholars everywhere. The village militia I train can each take on ten men. And n
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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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