Ancient-Era Imperial Exams, with Both Parents Still Alive 就是古代科考爹娘在世。
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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
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The Imperial Exam? I’m a Top Scholar in the Classics, So Why Can’t I Take the Military Exam? 科举？我文状元考个武状元合理吧
[Ripped Scholar Exams]+ [Transmigration]+ [Alternate History]+ [Humor]+ [Wish Fulfillment] When he woke up, top science student Xu Jie was completely bewildered! He had been one of Huaguo's leading science minds, devoted to research. But then he suddenly died in his sleep and, damn it, transmigrated straight into the body of a spoiled rich kid with muscles all over! On his wedding night, one hard squeeze of his bulging muscles left his petite new bride, who had been swapped in as a bride of good
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Sister, I Passed the Imperial Examination! 阿姐，我中举了！
Scholar Chen studied hard all his life but never passed the provincial examination. Before he died, he told his eldest daughter, “You must make sure your younger brother studies and earns an official title. Otherwise, I won’t be able to rest in peace!” An elder brother is like a father, and an elder sister is like a mother. Bearing her father’s final wish, Chen Zhaodi resolutely laid down her terms: “If you want to marry me, you must send my little brother to school.” While everyone else in the
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A Husband and His Wife in a Matriarchal World 女尊之赘妇和她的夫
Li Jinse accidentally transmigrates to a matriarchal kingdom and becomes a live-in wife. Watch as she climbs from the world of business to the officialdom, finds ways to grow rich, and wins the heart of a beauty. Lu Zeyan: “Did you ever give me a chance to understand you?” Lu Zeyu leans against Li Jinse. “My wife, you're so good to me.” Lu Zelin glares angrily at Li Jinse. “I gave you advice and helped you plan, and this is how you treat me?” Jiang Huan embraces Li Jinse. “Would you have a child
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Matriarchy: Seven Handsome Husbands for the Stunning Top Scholar 女尊：科举之绝色夫君有七个
[Not One-on-One + Multiple Male Leads + Imperial Exams + Some Original Worldbuilding] (The early chapters focus mainly on the imperial exams and move along quickly. The pocket dimension is secondary and rarely used.) The Sang family had a daughter named Wu. A Daoist priest declared that she would struggle to live past sixteen. If she did survive, she should take the imperial exams, and she would surely rise to great heights. But fate had other plans. On her sixteenth birthday, the youngest daugh
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In a Matriarchal World, I Reform Myself for My Beautiful Husband 女尊之我为绝色夫郎洗心革面
[Matriarchal society + transmigration + sweet romance + political intrigue + strong heroine + satisfying revenge + not a one-on-one romance] (. ❛ ᴗ ❛.) Quality guaranteed, so read with confidence! The king of survival in the apocalypse played the hero once, and ended up dead as a doornail!! When she opened her eyes again, she had transmigrated into a fictional matriarchal kingdom, the Feng Dynasty, and become a notorious, dissolute young noblewoman. What could she do? Aside from a face more beau
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Why Talk About Divorce? Let's Have a Baby, Darling 提什么和离，娘子咱们生娃吧
Yuan Pan'er never dreamed that, after her soul had already returned to the underworld, she would find herself back at the age of thirteen, just as the Chen family came to ask for her hand in marriage again. Then she'll marry into the Chen family once more, but in this life, she'll put herself first. If no one cares for her, she'll learn to care for herself...
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The General's Order: Five Husbands Attend Court 将军令：五夫临朝
[Woman disguised as a man × female general × strong heroine × one heroine and multiple love interests × all male leads are virgins × coming-of-age] [The rating has just opened; let the flowers bloom in time] For twenty years, Xiao Yunting lived disguised as a man, rising from the “Ghost-Faced King of Hell” to the founding empress. “Who says only men can sit on the dragon throne? I will make the whole realm bow to its phoenix-empress!” [Xie Huaiqing] I have always hated men who love men, but Brot
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The Road to the Top Scholar: A Farmer’s Daughter’s Imperial Exam Journey 科举之农家女的状元路
This isn't a high-energy, over-the-top feel-good story, and the pacing is fairly slow. There are no dramatic showdowns with awful relatives or triumphant face-slapping moments. If that works for you, read on. On the eve of her graduate school graduation, young Liu Lu had just learned that her thesis had passed when a car accident sent her to the past. She woke up as a little farm girl. To make matters worse, her parents were out of favor and always did the most work for the least reward. What w
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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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The Imperial Examinations: The First Female Grand Chancellor 科举：第一女首辅
Feng Xi transmigrates into the foolish fiancée of the male lead in an imperial-examination novel, an NPC on his path to greatness. According to the original plot, the male lead, who grew up in the countryside, is found by his family. The first thing he does after reclaiming his status as a scion of a prominent clan is send someone to erase the stain that is her. After that, the male lead displays his talents, places first in the imperial exams, rises through the ranks, and wins the hearts of a b
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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!
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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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Reborn as Cannon Fodder in a Farming Family? A Science Prodigy Crushes the Imperial Exams 穿成农家炮灰？理科状元卷穿科举
After pulling an all-nighter on his research, He Cheng'an, a top science student, dies suddenly and wakes up in a novel as a doomed cannon-fodder character, and an inferior foil to the protagonist, no less? He calmly spreads out the exam paper. Then I'll outwork you all until you question your lives! Others study hard for ten years; he memorizes all the primers in a day and passes the entry-level scholar exam at eight. Others tear their hair out over eight-legged essays; he writes like a god, so
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From Pauper to Grand Secretary 穷小子到阁老
Zhu Yuanyuan was a highly educated young woman of the new era, ready to make her mark and serve her country. But before she could, she was shot on the school sports field... After becoming him, she threw herself into the imperial examination system, striving forward for herself and her family. From a village student to a presented scholar, from a farming household to the imperial court, she carved out her own path in life, one step at a time...
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Transmigrating to Ancient Times, I Lead My Entire Clan to Success Through the Imperial Exams 穿越古代我靠科举带飞全族
[Imperial examinations + Female transmigrates into a male body + Farming] [There is a romantic pairing, and the male lead is devoted to one person.] In the modern world, she was an overworked 996 employee with a degree from a top-tier university. In ancient times, she became a man! Born to a farming family, he doesn’t want to spend his whole life farming, nor become a low-ranking merchant’s apprentice. With no particular skill to rely on, the only path to changing his fate and his family’s fate
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Trying to Inherit My Family's Wealth? I Disguised Myself as a Man and Took the Imperial Exams, Winning All Six Honors 吃绝户？我女扮男装科举六元及第
[Imperial Examinations + No CP + A Woman Disguised as a Man (She Reveals Her Identity Once She Holds Great Power) + Political Intrigue + Ensemble Cast] Reborn into an ancient farming family as its only “son,” she is so despised by her entire clan that they wish she would die soon so they can seize the Lu family's estate. Lu Ming: That's no problem. So what if they try to trip her up and stop her from taking a master? She'll walk the road to success no matter what! After observing mourning for t
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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
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Transmigrate to a Farming Family, Aim for the Imperial Exams 穿越农家，科举为上
Wang Xi had a heart condition as a child and was abandoned at an orphanage. He worked odd jobs to put himself through college and finally landed a pretty good job. After three years of working diligently, just as he was finally able to give something back to the orphanage where he grew up, he suddenly died while working overtime one night. Reborn into a farming family, Wang Xi is now a little boy named Li Shuanzi. He knows all too well that if he wants a better life, passing the imperial exams i
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The Imperial Exam Journey of a Poor Scholar in Ancient Times 古代寒门的科举之路
A modern grassroots civil servant, deeply interested in history, literature, and management but frustrated by his lack of success, unexpectedly transmigrates to the middle and late Ming Dynasty. He takes over the body of a poor scholar with the same name, who has just lost his father to illness and is about to sit the entry-level imperial examination.
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The Farm Girl Who Became Top Scholar 农家女状元
Mo Zhen, a modern-day tomboy, somehow transmigrates into ancient times as a real man! She takes the imperial exams, becomes the top scorer, protects the people, and rights wrongs. She makes buns, builds a franchise, and grows richer than kings. She charms handsome men and noble young ladies alike, living a dashing and carefree life. “Wife, you've had enough fun. Time for bed.” Alas, the man is actually a woman.
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A Woman Transmigrates as a Man: An Unwed Father’s Journey to the Imperial Exams 女穿男，未婚成爹我要科举考状元
She was a bona fide college student, and transmigrating into another body was one thing, but becoming a woman in a man's body and suddenly a father was another. And as if that weren't enough, they expected her to find them wives. She was utterly speechless. She didn't even have a wife herself. “I... Your dad's chest hurts. Help me to my room so I can lie down.” On the first day, her eldest son, Li Qingzhou, asked her that night, “Dad, why do you take a lamp to the latrine?” “...Can’t I go look
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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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My Clan Raised Me to Greatness, So I Gifted Them Purple Robes 全族扶我青云志，我赠族人朱紫袍
After dying suddenly from overwork, workaholic Chen Yan is reborn as the only son of a newly born provincial graduate in the Great Liang Dynasty. His father is successful, so Chen Yan promptly decides to lie flat and enjoy the good life, with food brought to him and clothes laid out for him. But when he learns at the age of six that he was switched at birth with a farmer's child, his life takes a turn. The day the fake young master returns to the Chen family, he goes out to work in the fields an
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Love Blossoms in the Dust 爱在尘埃中绽放
Yu Ke has returned after disappearing for five years when she was kidnapped. She thought her husband would be overcome with joy and excitement when he saw her. But to her surprise, he had long since reported her missing under the pretext of an accident, obtained a death certificate, and married a rich heiress to start a new family. At a banquet, the heiress humiliates Yu Ke in front of everyone, reopening her wounds, spreading lies about her, and cursing her for not having died out there. Yet he
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Passing By 路过
I never imagined that one day I would see my first love again at a police station. I was dressed in rags, humbly begging him to let my cheating husband go. His status was like something from the clouds, and he looked down at me from on high. He asked me how I'd ended up like this after leaving him.
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You Want Me to Bear You an Heir? I’ll Break Off the Engagement and Bring Home a Paralyzed Man to Have a Baby 逼我借种？退婚扛个瘫子回家生崽
Jiang Ruochu transmigrates into a book, becoming the timid childhood-sweetheart supporting character of the male lead in a period novel. In the book, someone maliciously reports her entire family, and they are sent away to the countryside. She takes her marriage contract to the army to seek out the male lead, only to discover that he has a cherished adopted younger sister? “We can get married, but my sister has to live with us.” Desperate to marry him, the original Jiang Ruochu endlessly puts up
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The Person Beneath the Pagoda Tree 槐树下的那个人
Not a power fantasy. Based on real events. When she was seven, her family sold her. Thirty yuan bought them the rights to decide the rest of her life. No one shed a single tear for her. Only one older brother, bleeding as he tried to stop the vehicle at the village entrance, called out her name and wrote two words in her palm: “Wait for me.” Her husband died, her children passed away young, and after her parents died, there was no one even to carry their coffins. She lived alone in a broken-down
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Our Family 咱们家
[No formulaic plot][Not a wish-fulfillment story][No cheat abilities][Traditional][Realistic][Period][Countryside][Hardship] A boy who is both bad and good, a family made up of people with no blood ties, a difficult yet sweet golden age, and a story full of humor and warmth... Beginning in the 1980s, this novel spans forty years and strives to recreate the changes of the times, telling the story of one person's growth. Above all, this is a realistic story, with both sweetness and heartbreak. Rea
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I Accidentally Reincarnated as a Young Su Shi in the Song Dynasty 一不小心穿成了宋代小苏轼
He is no swordsman, yet legends about him circulate throughout the martial world. He is no merchant, yet merchants tell stories about him too. He is no scholar, yet the literati speak of him as well. A transmigrator left behind legends in the Song Dynasty, yet seemed never to have existed at all. He is one of the Song Dynasty’s great mysteries. Ren Xiaoyao never imagined that a shut-in loser like him would transmigrate after touching an electrical switch. He transmigrated into the protagonist of
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After the Male Lead Ascended the Throne, He Set His Sights on Me, the Villain’s Adviser 男主登基后，盯上了反派幕僚的我
Completed [Two male leads + wholesome romance + transmigrate into a book + bottom protagonist + a little political intrigue + slow burn + turning a straight man gay + faking death] [A gentle and courteous facade, but underneath he’s strong, crafty, and full of schemes, the bottom × A superficial pretty-face fan who seems aloof, but inwardly watches everyone’s antics with quiet amusement, a scheming romantic lead] Modern office worker Lin Fengzhu transmigrates into a book and becomes a poor sch
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My Days at the Real Estate Sales Office 我在售楼部的日子
As a member of the post-80s generation, I’ve witnessed this industry’s rise and fall. I’ve ridden the wave, reaped the rewards, felt the bubble, and watched it go from flourishing to decline, its fortunes ebbing away... There was fate’s hand, society’s shaping, and the trials of life... All these true stories will be recorded in full as a mark of our times.
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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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My Fierce Dog, My Horse: I Do Whatever I Want 我的恶犬我的马，我想咋耍就咋耍
[Strong female lead, powerful heroine, reborn female general, woman disguised as a man, duty to family and country, serious alternate-history drama, ensemble cast in chaotic times. If you mind a weak romance, don't read.] She died in the very year she was ennobled and made a general, crowned with glory. It turned out that even someone with no lingering resentment could be reborn after reaching the top. In her previous life, because of something her mother said, she took on the burden of her fami
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Jilted on My Wedding Night, I Bond with the Grand Agricultural Official System 新婚夜被鸽后我绑定了大司农系统
[Women in government + farming and infrastructure + satisfying revenge with light comedy + career-focused with a little romance + male lead in a supporting role + beloved by everyone + romance after an arranged marriage] Lin Ran transmigrates to a fictional dynasty and gains a grandmother obsessed with chanting sutras, a father who brings bad luck to his wives, a bookish second younger brother, a wastrel third younger brother, an influential family by marriage, and a misfit System that hounds he
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Daily Life Raising Kids in Ancient Times for the Unmarried 不婚男女古代养娃日常
[Ancient times]+ [Dual Transmigration]+ [Raising children]+ [Alternate history]+ [Family life]+ [No personal dimension]+ [No golden finger] Mu Yi’an is an agricultural schoolteacher in her thirties who never married and nearly got kicked out by her own mother. Jiang Shuyun is a high school politics teacher in his forties and a committed non-marriage, non-parenthood advocate. His parents are away most of the time and respect his choices. An elevator accident sends them both to the fictional Da Li
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She Only Wanted to Teach for a Living, but Every Student Turned Out to Be a Competition Maniac 她只想教书糊口，弟子却全是卷王
[No romance + teaching + adorable kids + farming + building wealth + infrastructure] A warm, slice-of-life story Zhang Ziruo transmigrates into the role of the evil adoptive mother of a tyrannical villain, destined for a tragic end. She plans to win the villain’s favor while he is still young, only to discover that he has been reborn... Taking stock of her new circumstances, she decides to open a school and become a teacher! She’ll raise the villain to be a virtuous, capable, open-minded, and po
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