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  1. Cultivating Through Reincarnation: Starting with the Imperial Examinations 轮回修仙：从考科举开始 Haizi x海子xEastern Fantasy411k WordsOngoing [The rating has just been released, and will probably rise later...] Changsheng transmigrated to another continent and obtained the golden finger of reincarnation and rebirth. Isn't that the standard package for a protagonist? In another world's immortal cultivation realm, he reincarnates again and again, ultimately embarking on the path of cultivation, reaching the summit, and proving the Dao of immortality. 438.8kReads8.4Score53.2kShelves
  2. Do Civil Officials Have to Resort to Fistfights? I Throw My Weight Around at Court 文臣尽头是武斗？我在朝堂横着走 Diki DaddyDiki粑粑Historical625k WordsOngoing The entire household of Minister Wang's family is made up of lean, refined scholars, each elegant and slight, capable of writing thousands of words on statecraft with a single stroke of the brush. Only the second son, Wang Ling, is an oddball: a nine-foot giant with shoulders broad enough to block a doorway, able to hoist a full water jar with one hand. Among a crowd of scholars, he looks like a wild ox barging into an orchid garden. Study? He falls asleep after half a lesson. Memorize? He can't 390.2kReads8.9Score48.9kShelves
  3. The General Returns After Dying in Battle: His In-Laws Abandon Him Like a Plague God 将军战死归来：婆家弃他如瘟神 A Life Without Sorrow or Joy余生无悲欢Ancient Romance403k WordsOngoing [Strong Female Lead + Beloved by Everyone + Adorable Children + Never Looking Back + Crime Solving + A Touch of the Imperial Examination] Lin Yuniang, who had just been promoted to police chief, transmigrated. Just three days after her wedding, her husband, Pei Yuanjun, was conscripted and sent to the battlefield. Before three months had passed, news arrived that her husband had died in battle. At that moment, Lin Yuniang discovered that she was pregnant. In her previous life, she had lived for 374.4kReads8.5Score28.9kShelves
  4. A First-Rate Master of Letters, a Superlative Villain 文道一流，作恶超一流 Mo Wen Mofei莫问莫非Eastern Fantasy606k WordsOngoing [System of Evil-Deed Rewards] + [Poetry, Lyrics, and Literature] + [Lighthearted and Fun] + [Courtroom Maneuvering] + [Seven Heavenly Laws and Three Hundred Regulations] In this ancient immortal cultivation empire, the literary path has been granted the mighty power of Heaven's Way. A single character can fly through the sky and escape into the earth, a poem can manifest a poetic soul's reflection, a song can change the seasons, and a single chess piece can slaughter thousands of cavalry and arm 318.5kReads8.5Score47.6kShelves
  5. 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 Uncle Jianghe江河大爷Historical2.1M WordsOngoing 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 279kReads9.2Score32.2kShelves
  6. You Asked Me to Ghostwrite a Love Letter, So Why Did My Words Make a Great Scholar Weep? 让你代写情书，你落笔惊哭大儒？ Miss Yu 1瑜大小姐1Historical1.1M WordsOngoing [Imperial Examinations] [Cultivation] [Nine-Year-Old Prodigy] [Rising from Poverty] [Political Intrigue] Gu Ci, a PhD in Chinese Language and Literature, opened his eyes to find himself a nine-year-old boy in the Great Feng Dynasty. His family was destitute from the start! His father and uncle had both failed the county exams, his little sister was still nursing, and his mother and older sister toiled weaving cloth! Was there no way out? Gu Ci grabbed a calligraphy brush and headed straight for 215.6kReads8.5Score20.2kShelves
  7. Quick Transmigration: I Put Scumbags on the Right Path 快穿之我替人渣走正途 Jiu Yu啾羽Fantastical Romance968k WordsOngoing As immortals in modern society, Lu Yuan is bound to the quick travel system to replace the scum and save the people in the small world whose lives were ruined by the scum. [Quick time travel from the perspective of the male protagonist + CP in some worlds + replacing the scumbag to whitewash] [Female blog posts mean that the audience is more female-oriented. (Note: It is not the real scum who is cleaning up, but the innocent people who are protecting the innocent people on their behalf, and the 187.1kReads9.2Score16kShelves
  8. Choosing a Wife in the Imperial Prison: Heiresses, Talented Ladies, and Princesses 诏狱选妻：千金，才女，公主 Knowledge Seeker知探Historical1.3M WordsOngoing [Transmigration + fictional setting + solving cases + imperial examinations + no System + multiple heroines] (The rise of an ordinary man) My name is Han Qiu. I transmigrated to the Dayu dynasty and became a low-ranking clerk in the Imperial City Office. The country has just finished a war, driving the barbarians away from the border, but at a terrible cost in casualties. To rebuild the population and revive the economy, any young person of marriageable age who remains unmarried will be sent to 172.9kReads8.1Score24.7kShelves
  9. The Pig-Butchering Clan's Imperial Exam Prodigy 科举：杀猪世家，出了个文曲星 Diki DaddyDiki粑粑Historical3.1M WordsOngoing The Wang butcher family is full of burly men, all tall, broad, and muscular, like a whole den of reincarnated black bears! But their youngest son, Wang Sanniu, is the odd one out: frail, delicate, and liable to fall over in a breeze. Standing beside his family, he looks like a little fox that wandered into a bear’s den. Butchering pigs? The moment pig’s blood splashes over him, he faints! Farming? The hoe is taller than he is! With the family fearing he’ll become a good-for-nothing, his mother m 161.3kReads8.9Score17.1kShelves
  10. The Twelve Golden Flowers Have an Ancestor Who Wants to Take the Imperial Examination 十二朵金花家有耀祖要科举 Mushroom Dream Mile蘑菇梦哩Ancient Romance163k WordsOngoing [Fetal wear-imperial examination-no golden finger-with cp (1v1)] Zhang He'an, an orphan, died suddenly after working overtime and became pregnant with a miscarriage in the family of the boss of the Great Xia Dynasty. There are twelve sisters in the family. Zhang He'an is the golden child that the Zhang family has longed for. As the favorite of the family, watch how Zhang He'an moves to power step by step, from a peasant student to the prime minister of the dynasty. And how to pamper twelve siste 160.1kReads6.9Score21.9kShelves
  11. The Five Phoenixes of a Poor Family: Dad, This Time I'll Turn Our Family's Fate Around 寒门五凤：爹，这次我带全家翻身 Clear Blossoms Reflect a Cool Face清花照凉颜Historical1.2M WordsOngoing The full-cast audiobook is out now. If you enjoy audiobooks, give it a listen! [Transmigration + raising children + everyday family life + food + imperial examinations] Qin Lang was simply away on a business trip. His curiosity got the better of him, and when he went to see what was happening, he was hit by something and transmigrated to ancient times. Before he could even figure out what was going on, someone placed a newborn baby in his arms and told him it was his daughter, his fifth child. Q 159.8kReads8.5Score17.2kShelves
  12. The Top Scholar and Grand Secretary Keep Carrying Me in the Imperial Exams 科举：状元首辅又带飞朕了 Silly Chicken Feather鸡毛呆Historical572k WordsOngoing (The rating just came out, so it will rise later) In his previous life, Shen Zhiyan was an engineering PhD at one of China's top five universities. In this life, he transmigrated to a peasant family in the Great Sheng dynasty. A poor household, a grandmother who played favorites, a taciturn father, and a third uncle who failed the imperial exams time and again... In an era when everything was inferior save for studying, Shen Zhiyan edged out his third uncle and set out on the path of the imperia 154.6kReads8.6Score20.8kShelves
  13. The Fake Heir Was Cast Out of the Marquis's Estate, Then Rose to Power Through the Imperial Exams 被赶出侯府假世子靠科举逆袭权臣 Fuyu Ya浮玉呀Historical1.1M WordsCompleted Chen Yan worked himself to the bone as an office drone. After finally paying off his mortgage and car loan, he had 400,000 yuan in savings and was ready to lie flat in a small county town. Little did he know that disaster can strike at any moment. He transmigrated! The good news: he was still a man in this life, so he wouldn't have to experience period pain. He was born into a wealthy marquis's household, surrounded by fine clothes, delicious food, and his family's boundless affection. The bad n 130.9kReads8.6Score10.8kShelves
  14. After My Scumbag Father Demoted My Mother to a Concubine, I Remarried with Her and Lived the Good Life 渣爹贬妻为妾后，我随母改嫁躺赢 Yuan Zhi Ting Lan沅芷汀兰Ancient Romance450k WordsCompleted Liu Jiahe was reborn at the age of nine. The first major thing she did was persuade her parents to divorce, then help her mother remarry. Everyone laughed at her and her mother for being foolish, giving up the wealth and glory of the general’s household to live in poverty with an ugly hunter. The Jiang family and Liu Jiahe’s twin sister, who had chosen to stay with their father, all waited for the day she would regret it. Only Liu Jiahe knew that in her previous life, the general’s household had 128.6kReads8.1Score19.7kShelves
  15. From the Start, Disguised as a Man, I Rose to First Rank Through the Imperial Exams 开局女扮男装，我靠科举官居一品 I Want to Make Money爷要赚钱Ancient Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Disguised as a man + imperial examinations and court intrigue + rises to the highest office + one heroine, focused on her career] When Xie Qingfeng opens her eyes, she's handed a nightmare of a life: a house with bare walls, and a woman forced to disguise herself as a man. In an age when everything is considered inferior to scholarship, if she doesn't fight for her place, she'll be crushed to pieces. Since she's here, she'll give it everything she's got! As a woman, she enters the imperial cour 125.8kReads9.3Score18.3kShelves
  16. Father and Son Travel Through Time: My Son Forces Me into the Hall of Purple Splendor 父子同穿：儿逼我上紫宸殿 Drunk from a Flick of the Finger弹指一壶醉Historical1.3M WordsOngoing [Mostly slice-of-life, not a power fantasy, father and son transmigrate together, a grind-loving king sets out and leaves no grass standing] Meng Yan and his dad, Meng Minghan, transmigrate to ancient times together. His father becomes an impoverished widower and provincial graduate, while he becomes a skinny ten-year-old. To stay alive, Meng Yan answers a recruitment notice, and father and son both enter Prince Jin's residence. His dad becomes a tutor, and he becomes a study companion. And so.. 125kReads9.0Score17.6kShelves
  17. After Disguising Herself as a Man and Attending Court, Her Rival Falls Deeply in Love 女扮男装上朝后，死对头暗恋成疾 Want Some Noodle Soup?吃不吃汤面Ancient Romance407k WordsOngoing [Woman disguised as a man] [Her nemesis is her wife] [A couple who are always at odds] [Both are virgins, one-on-one romance] Early on: a rebellious, brazen woman versus a scheming man who is not what he seems. Later: a domineering, impossibly cool empress versus the greatest treacherous minister, loyal only to the ruler and not necessarily to the country. Shen Qiao thought she and Su Yan were a match made in heaven. During their most bitter years, he schemed to have her imprisoned, nearly costi 118.6kReads9.1Score26.1kShelves
  18. Water Margin: I Bought Chao Gai an Official Post, Then Found Myself Wearing the Yellow Robe 水浒：给晁盖买官，我竟黄袍加身 A Drop of Divine Rain一滴神灵雨Historical604k WordsOngoing [Climbing the Ranks] + [Big-Spender System] + [Imperial Exams] + [Underworld Bosses]! When others transmigrate into Water Margin, they form sworn brotherhoods and rebel. When I transmigrated into Water Margin, the System told me to lead the heroes into high office! The higher my brothers’ posts, the bigger my rewards! “Ding! Thanks to your efforts, Wu Yong has passed the metropolitan exam. Reward: the title ‘Mastermind’!” “Ding! Chao Gai has become the county commandant of Yuncheng. Reward: the 109.7kReads8.5Score16.9kShelves
  19. The Imperial Exams: A Bookish Son in a Clan of Illiterates 科举：九族文盲出了个读书郎 I'm a Pighead我是猪头Historical1.3M WordsCompleted [Complete] [Imperial Examinations] [Transmigration + No System] [No heroine in the early story; there may or may not be one later, and if there is, she won't get much page time] Not a single person in the Gu clan, spanning nine generations, could read or write. Even the family genealogy had been written by the clan chief through a mixture of guesswork and asking around. Then, all of a sudden, this family produced a scholar. At first, the villagers and the Gu clan relatives had little faith in Gu 105.8kReads8.6Score10.5kShelves
  20. White Snake: You Can't Marry My Sister Xiaoqing 白娘子：你不能娶我妹妹小青 Professional Wordsmith码字专业户Cultivation216k WordsOngoing The ratings have just been released and will increase in the future. Pure hand rubbing, easy to write, decisive in killing, focusing on the self-reliance and self-reliance of the human race. The beautiful scenery of the West Lake is in March. The spring rain is like wine and willows are like smoke. The green figure beside the broken bridge is even more like a painting. Lu Chenzhou was moved at first glance, but he never thought that Bai Suzhen would suddenly pop up. "You can't marry my sister Xi 102.1kReads5.9Score9.9kShelves
  21. A Peking University Master's Imperial Exam: Shocking the Entire Court 北大硕士科举：震惊满朝文武 Ah Zhen Fell for A Qiang啊珍爱上了阿强Historical1.4M WordsOngoing In his previous life, Lin Yanqiu was a star student in Peking University’s history department. Then, overnight, he transmigrated into the Great Jing dynasty as a poor scholar who had failed the imperial examinations three times. His betrothal to the late county magistrate’s daughter had become the laughingstock of the entire village. On the eve of the examinations, the matriarch of the Cui family came personally to his dilapidated hut. Instead of breaking off the engagement, she insisted on hono 98.4kReads8.4Score8.8kShelves
  22. The Top Scholar Is Obsessively Devoted to His Husband 科举之状元郎他极端夫控 Love Wheel Cakes爱吃车轮饼1.1M WordsCompleted [Male Lead Pursues + Sweet Romance + Imperial Exams] Dot­ing, fatherly pursuer × sweet, delicate, sickly love interest Ye Qi was reborn in the body of a fake scholar who had nothing but four bare walls and a mountain of debt. As soon as he woke up, he was forced to marry a man and kicked out of his home. His male spouse was frail and frequently ill, making him exhausting and expensive to care for. Over time, Ye Qi realized that his male spouse was actually quite pretty: a small face, bright, 98.4kReads9.3Score16.3kShelves
  23. Imprisoned Within My Own Borders 划地如囚 Canghu Fang藏狐方714k WordsCompleted The entire novel is handwritten, with absolutely no AI. The Old Master of the Ye family doesn’t expect much from the illegitimate grandson born to an actor. He only hopes the boy will behave himself and not bring shame on the family. Later, when he sees the boy has some academic talent, he hopes he’ll pass the imperial examinations and bring glory to their name. But the boy doesn’t seem inclined to cooperate, charging headlong toward a disaster that will wipe out the entire clan. The ultimate e 97.4kReads9.1Score20.5kShelves
  24. I Became a Saint Through Poetry and Articles in the World of Confucianism and Taoism 我在儒道世界以诗词文章成圣人 Feather of Streaming Light流光之羽Eastern Fantasy212k WordsOngoing [Time Travel + Confucianism and Taoism + Imperial Examination + Counterattack from a Poor Family + Civil War] Traveling through the world of Confucianism and Taoism, Lin Qingyun, a young man from a poor family, holds in his hands thousands of Chinese poems and poems! Here Confucianism and Taoism are respected, poetry can kill enemies, thoughts can make saints, and hundreds of schools of thought argue endlessly! In the county examination room, his poems were passed down from generation to generat 96.4kReads6.3Score11.2kShelves
  25. Quick Transmigration: Huh? Be a Dad? Me? 快穿：啊？当爸爸？我吗？ Only Eats Mango Peels专吃芒果皮Fantastical Romance688k WordsOngoing (Just started receiving ratings) (Healing + raising kids) Zhou Yanli is an idle rich second-generation heir. After rudely kicking a big yellow dog by the roadside, he gets latched onto by a System. The bird, which looks like a punk rocker, is a Myanmar scammer System. It orders him to go to different worlds and play everyone’s dad to complete missions, or else it’ll electrocute him. In a fit of rage, Zhou Yanli fights the bird, plucks out all its feathers, and beats it until it calls him Dad. Bu 91.5kReads8.8Score11.7kShelves
  26. My Groom Died on Our Wedding Night, So I Married His Younger Brother 成亲当晚夫君嘎了，改嫁小叔子 Lazy Fish in Summer咸鱼一夏Ancient Romance1.0M WordsOngoing Ancient rural life + marriage first, love later + imperial examinations + building wealth + a gentle, steady romance As the youngest daughter born to her parents late in life, He Qiaoying was cherished and pampered by her father from the moment she was born. But those days came to an abrupt end when her father passed away. Living with her gentle, timid mother under the thumb of her domineering eldest sister-in-law, she became as busy as a spinning top, never getting a moment's rest. When she cam 89.1kReads8.5Score3.7kShelves
  27. The Great Zhou’s Number One Villain Raises a Top Scholar 大周第一奸臣，养出了个状元郎 Little Cow Goes Online小母牛上网Historical985k WordsOngoing [Transmigration + Imperial Examinations + Court Politics + No Golden Finger] The Red Fruit short drama is now available, titled The Dandy Takes Up His Brush to Protect the Realm, Season One. After transmigrating to the Great Zhou, Gu Chang’an becomes the son of a treacherous minister, reviled by everyone. His father, Gu Mingyuan, wields absolute power at court, purges officials, and suppresses the scholars. The people of the realm regard him as a traitor to the nation. As for Gu Chang’an, he 88.9kReads8.4Score9.5kShelves
  28. Myriad Worlds: Becoming Invincible on Mount Hua 诸天：从华山开始无敌 Preserved Mustard Greens and Cured Pork梅菜腊肉1.3M WordsCompleted Lin Yi is an ordinary man in his thirties. His biggest problem in life is his wife’s relentless farts. Until one night, a “biological weapon” set off by a cup of slimming tea blasts him straight into the world of Smiling, Proud Wanderer, where he even turns into a baby! He thinks he’ll be lucky to become a disciple of the Huashan Sect, but the sect leader and his wife adopt him as their own son and name him Yue Chengzhi. See how this transmigrator, blasted into another world by a fart, protects 87.9kReads7.0Score8.2kShelves
  29. This Top Scholar Plays by His Own Rules 这个状元路子有点野 The Foundation of One's Life立身之本Historical2.3M WordsCompleted [Farming + imperial examinations + alternate history + lighthearted] My Parents Flipped the Table and Quit, So I Want to Take the Imperial Exams Too Just as Wang Xuezhou was about to reach the peak of his life, he transmigrated. The good news: in this life, his parents were loving, and his siblings got along. The bad news: the whole family was pinching pennies to fund his eldest uncle's studies. They had next to nothing and were living on coarse grain and wild greens. But before he could flip t 83.1kReads8.9Score9.7kShelves
  30. Su Dongpo, the Greatest Literary Master Under Heaven 天下第一文豪苏东坡 Ancient Anecdotes上古轶事Historical473k WordsOngoing [Su Dongpo] [History, wild imagination, stories] [Historical fact + legend] Su Dongpo spent his life either taking up a new post or being demoted on the way to one. He was optimistic and magnanimous, and extraordinarily talented. His poetry and prose have won the admiration of generations to come. He was the most versatile talent in all of Great Song. His poetry, essays on policy, calligraphy, and painting were freewheeling and romantic, a matchless achievement across a thousand years. His compa 80.1kReads8.3Score1.1kShelves
  31. I Just Want a Bite of Meat, So Why Make Me Take the Imperial Exam? 只想吃口肉，非要让我考科举 Luoluo Feathers洛洛羽毛Ancient Romance643k WordsOngoing A lighthearted, humorous slice-of-life story. Shen Qingyun transmigrates into the body of a poor farm boy in Qingshan Village, Great Qian, whose family can barely keep food on the table. Instead of using his adult wisdom to turn his life around, he devotes it all to figuring out how to get meat to eat. He tricks his cousin and schemes with the neighbor kids. Other people get beaten up, while he gets to satisfy his cravings. When Grandpa suggests sending a grandson to school, Grandma shows her “k 78kReads8.5Score10.2kShelves
  32. Wait, Even a Top Science Student Has to Compete This Hard in Ancient Times? 不是，理科状元到了古代也要卷？ Lucky Lin招财林Historical2.0M WordsOngoing [Imperial examinations + court politics + farming + alternate history + daily life + lighthearted + no romance] Li Su had barely had time to savor becoming the top scorer in the national college entrance exam when he transmigrated as the youngest son of the Li family. His whole family doted on him, even though they lived on coarse grain and vegetables, and supported his studies. The original owner had been led astray by his classmates. Selfish and only interested in having fun, he had ruined him 77.9kReads8.8Score7.9kShelves
  33. The Imperial Exams: You Mocked My Ugly Handwriting, So I'll Make My Brother Fail 科举：让你笑我字丑，我考哭嫡兄 Day and Night of Earning Big Bucks赚大米的日日夜夜Historical1.2M WordsOngoing [Transmigration] [Confrontational Personality] [Rise of a Concubine-Born Son] [Imperial Examinations] [Political Intrigue] A crusader for online consumer rights argues with someone for three days and three nights, then gets so worked up that he dies. When he opens his eyes again, he’s become the most useless concubine-born son in the Minister of Revenue’s household. He knows three hundred characters and comes last in every exam. The whole family agrees: he’s a lost cause. His stepmother bullies 77kReads8.5Score8.3kShelves
  34. The Phoenix Sings at the Farmhouse 农门凤鸣 I'm Afraid of Shu Road Mountain吾怕蜀道山Rural Life1.1M WordsOngoing In his previous life, Li Fengming graduated from a prestigious university and served in the military. He died saving a child, only to open his eyes as the posthumous son of the Li family in Lijia Village, Qingxi County, under the Great Qian Dynasty. His grandfather had lost an arm, and his parents were both dead. Fortunately, he had a photographic memory and the experience of two lifetimes. At four, he made fish traps to improve the family’s meals. He invented a threshing machine to solve the pr 74.2kReads8.8Score9.6kShelves
  35. 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 Bai Jiuhuan白久欢Ancient Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [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 69.5kReads8.9Score6kShelves
  36. I Had to Live Off My Wife to Study for the Imperial Exams 为了读书科举，我被迫吃上了软饭 Nine Jin of Fat九斤肥肉Historical780k WordsOngoing Seventy years after the founding of the Great Shun dynasty, everyone calls it a golden age, yet poor students still struggle to get an education. Zhang Xing transmigrates to Great Shun. His elder brother has married and started a family, and there is no money left to support Zhang Xing’s studies. Desperate to study and sit the imperial exams, Zhang Xing is forced to marry a wealthy woman. Two wealthy wives, in fact!! [Imperial exams as the main plot + Daily life + Legally marrying two wives to c 66.4kReads7.1Score5.2kShelves
  37. From Little Kid to Top Scholar, I Cheat My Way to the Top 从幼童到状元，我一路开挂 Dreaming Back to Childhood Songs梦回童歌Historical2.0M WordsOngoing [Alternate-history fiction + imperial examinations + slice of life + no golden finger] Here, clan ties are more important than life itself, and clan rules take precedence over the law. When Qin Haoran was three, his father was killed in a bloody fight over water rights. According to clan rules, the entire clan was supposed to raise the family that had lost its breadwinner. But fate's cruelty was far from over. Three years later, his young mother, unable to bear a life of loneliness and widowhood 64.8kReads8.6Score4.9kShelves
  38. Quick Transmigration: Who Dies Doesn’t Matter, He’ll Keep Them Alive 快穿：谁死不重要，他包活 A Hit Is Easy to Write容易出爆款Historical530k WordsOngoing The score has just come out, and it’ll go up later! [Quick transmigration + powerful male lead + no fixed CP or no CP + the toughest wage earner alive + plot killer + even the King of Hell shakes his head] The moment Yi Xun opened his eyes, he discovered he’d transmigrated into a cannon-fodder character. System: A supporting character. The kind who’s destined to die. Yi Xun: Oh. And then he survived. Everyone who picked a fight with him died, but he stayed alive. The male and female leads died, 63.9kReads7.0Score5.4kShelves
  39. I Worked My Way to the Top Scholar in the Imperial Exams, and Now You Say I Have a Powerful Identity 拼命科举成状元，你才说我有身份 This Fish Wants to Eat Cats Now这鱼想吃猫了Historical1.6M WordsCompleted (A cathartic power fantasy: the protagonist never takes anything lying down, and never lets a grudge wait until tomorrow!) No romance + nation-building + imperial examinations + farming + alternate history + court intrigue A no-holds-barred power fantasy, with a decisive, ruthless protagonist!! If there's no justice in this world, then I'll carve it out with blood! If the great clans leave everyone with nowhere to turn, then I'll cut a path through them. The county magistrate's son toys with peo 63.2kReads8.9Score8.7kShelves
  40. The Emperor’s Bow of the Red Chamber 红楼帝弓 Painted Bridge by the Willow Smoke烟柳画桥Historical1.0M WordsCompleted [No System + intellectual battles + political intrigue + everyday life] Every line is stained with bitter tears, every page filled with absurdity. You might think this is merely a tale of infatuated, indulged young men and women behind closed doors, but who could know that the rise and fall of the world are all intertwined? Are the fortunes of the four great families destined to change? Is the dynasty beset by internal and external threats destined to fall? Must the path to a noble title and hig 61.7kReads9.2Score5kShelves
  41. From the National Academy's Favorite to a Powerful Official of Great Yong 从国子监团宠到大雍权臣 LonelinerAncient Romance160k WordsOngoing [System + Raising Kids + Aristocratic Family + No Romance + A Little Imperial Exam + A Little Court Intrigue] As the legitimate youngest son of a once-great marquis’s household now fallen on hard times, Shen Yun Zhao knew from childhood that the task of restoring the family’s fortunes would fall to him, since his eldest brother was frail. At three, he nearly drowned. By a stroke of luck, Shen Yun Zhao recalled the memories of his previous life and activated the System. As long as he earned the a 61kReads—Score14.8kShelves
  42. I Passed the Palace Exam, and You're Telling Me I'm a Princess? 我都中状元了，你说我是公主？ Give Me a Little Star给我一颗小星星Ancient Romance410k WordsOngoing [No romance, female emperor] Yun Zhao is reborn into the family of a wealthy merchant in ancient times. At first, she thinks a life of comfort, with everything she needs and someone to look after her, sounds pretty good. Then she learns that being single is actually a crime in the Da Ning Dynasty! Any unmarried woman aged sixteen or older, or man aged nineteen or older, must pay a fine of two taels of silver each year. Unmarried women aged twenty or older, and men aged twenty-two or older, will 58.2kReads8.8Score10.9kShelves
  43. You Stole My Military Merits, So Why Panic When I Take Top Honors in the Imperial Exams? 夺我军功，科举六元及第你慌什么 I'm Little Qiqi我是小七七Historical1.0M WordsCompleted [Imperial Examinations + Transmigration + No System + Everyday Life + Lighthearted] Jiang Yan, heir to a family of physicians and top science-track scorer in the national college entrance exam, transmigrates into the life of an abandoned son whose military achievements were stolen by the Marquis's household. His life is a disaster from the start! His grandparents favor the other children, his father is mentally disabled, his mother is spineless, and the whole family leeches off them. Jiang Yan s 57.5kReads8.5Score6.9kShelves
  44. My Stepfather Set Me on the Road to Success 继父扶我青云路 Ban Jieyu班婕妤Historical1.0M WordsCompleted His scholar father died when Xie Qingshan was three. His widowed mother took him and remarried that very night, and he thought a hard life under someone else’s roof lay ahead. But his stepfather was kindhearted, his step-grandmother warm and caring, and they even gave him the sweet little name Xu Chengzong. The whole family doted on him! With a modern soul in his body, he helps his family eat well and stay warm, then returns to his studies, hoping to pass the exams and become a minor official. 56.6kReads8.0Score4.4kShelves
  45. After My Eldest Sister Swapped Our Marriages 被长姐换亲之后 Ink Brush Mints Gold墨笔生金Ancient Romance941k WordsOngoing [Farming + marriage first, love later + switched betrothals + contrast couple + business + transmigration] [Available as a full-cast audiobook and comic drama] Song He dies in an accident while saving someone and transmigrates to ancient times as an ordinary farm girl. Life is hard, and even having enough to eat and warm clothes is a struggle. As the second daughter in her family, the original owner is ignored by her father and scolded by her mother. Her eldest sister is fiercely competitive, an 53.9kReads8.6Score6kShelves
  46. Transmigrated as the Tragic Heroine's Older Brother: I Choose to Study for the Imperial Exams 穿成虐文女主兄长，我选择卷科举 Little Little Deer小小小的鹿Ancient Romance929k WordsOngoing (Male supporting character + imperial exams + infrastructure building + no System + vicious female supporting character) Modern doctoral student Lin Qing stays up all night revising his thesis, only to open his eyes and find himself in ancient times as Lin Qingshan, a frail young man. His parents have just died when his uncle's family shows up with a slave trader, intent on selling his two younger sisters. The older one is to be sold as a maid, and the younger one as a child bride. Furious, Lin 52.4kReads8.4Score5.7kShelves
  47. You’re a Civil Service Exam Tutor, So How Did You Become the Imperial Preceptor? 你一个公考讲师，咋成国师了？ Know a Woman by Her Scent闻香识女Historical1.9M WordsOngoing [Imperial examinations] + [Mentor-and-student ensemble] + [Political maneuvering] Chen Wen, a top civil-service exam instructor, transmigrates to Great Xia and becomes a teacher. From the start, he has a dilapidated academy and three troublesome students. Chen Wen says, “No problem. This is what I do.” He uses logic to deconstruct the eight-legged essay, policy-analysis techniques to write policy papers, and interview skills to ace the palace exam. From topping the county exams to earning top ho 52.4kReads8.9Score5.4kShelves
  48. The Imperial Exams: From a Duke’s Bastard Son to a Powerful Official 科举！从公府庶子到权臣的青云路 Zhou Shusen周树森Historical4.0M WordsOngoing [Not a BL novel! Not a male-male romance! One male lead, little to no romance, and a plot-focused story.] [Transmigration + Illegitimate Son of a Duke’s Estate + No System + Imperial Exams + Political Intrigue] He transmigrates, and the good news is that he’s now an illegitimate son of the Duke of Wei’s household, with food and clothes taken care of and no need to worry about making a living. The bad news is that he’s not only unloved, but also mocked and looked down upon. Heh. Never look down o 51kReads8.9Score4.4kShelves
  49. I Saved the Empress, Then Came First in the Imperial Exams 救下女帝后，我中了状元 Jumping Frog跳啊跳的青蛙Historical1.8M WordsOngoing Ning Nan transmigrates into a rundown village called Li Jia Village and spends eighteen whole years there. After beating the male lead to the punch and rescuing the amnesiac female lead, he discovers that the male lead has rescued someone too! He forces the male lead to become sworn brothers with that woman, then heads home, satisfied. He checks the fingers of the woman he rescued and, seeing the calluses on her hands, confirms that she really is only the female lead's maid! He sighs and rushes 46.3kReads8.4Score5kShelves
  50. Top the Imperial Exams with Six Honors, Then Reclaim the Realm 科举六元及第，封狼居胥再续山河 Liang Daozi梁道子Historical1.7M WordsOngoing [The animated series From Farmboy Scholar to Wolf of Langju Mountain is now streaming. Enjoy!] [The early arc focuses on the imperial exams, the middle arc on reclaiming lost territory, and the later arc on looking overseas.] Lin Yun, who died from overwork in his previous life, never expected to be born into a poor farming family in the Great Jing Dynasty. From being mocked by his aunt for eating even a single egg to becoming the first person in the Great Jing Dynasty to earn top honors in all 43.3kReads7.8Score5.6kShelves