Riding the Clouds to Success Through the Imperial Exams

Wei Xi transmigrates into the body of a posthumous son in a poor farming family. The whole household is destitute. Fortunately, he has a photographic memory. If he studies for the imperial examinations, he can work his way up from licentiate to provincial graduate, then to metropolitan graduate, and finally change his family's fortunes and rise to the top. * Everyone in the village says the Wei family is cursed with bad luck. By Wei Xi's generation, the child hadn't even been born before his father died. The family patriarch, Old Man Wei, broke his leg while hunting, and the whole household barely gets by on a few thin fields. Just as they seem on the verge of begging for food, a piece of good news arrives: Wei Xi wants to study for the imperial examinations. The Wei family is dreaming if they think that will work. Have they gone mad? An official career through the imperial examinations? That's something a country bumpkin could only dream of! Mockery and scorn wash over him like a tide. Wei Xi argues back and gets angry, but he never puts down his brush or stops moving forward. If they want to laugh at him, he'll give them a face-slapping comeback! Years later, Wei Xi from Lingnan makes a name for himself in the capital at the spring metropolitan examination, taking first place and winning the title of zhuangyuan. As he returns home in glory, the people who once laughed at him now wear ingratiating smiles and bow and scrape before him. Heh. You looked down on me back then. Now you can regret it! Coming soon: A Noblewoman's Everyday Life of Exile and Making Her Fortune. Please add it to your reading list~ Lu Xiaoxiao, a blogger who gained a million followers by filming country life, transmigrates into a book. Good news: She becomes the daughter of a high-ranking official, with a noble status. Bad news: Her whole family has been arrested, and they're trudging miserably along the road to exile. In the book, the original owner is a tragic figure. She missed her childhood sweetheart, had a heartless fiancé desperate to disavow their relationship, and a deranged father who pushed his daughter toward the guards just so he could have a hot meal during their journey into exile. Lu Xiaoxiao isn't a pushover, and she has no self-sacrificing spirit. She relies on the knowledge and skills she gained as a blogger to protect herself along the way, finally arriving safely at her place of exile: Lingnan. Lingnan is humid and sweltering, crawling with poisonous miasma and insects. But Lu Xiaoxiao is a walking encyclopedia. She drives away bugs, guards against poison, repairs houses, and treats the sick. Her skills may be rudimentary, but they're enough to earn the locals' trust. After she establishes herself and regains her status as a free commoner, she can make brown sugar pearl milk tea, cold pot skewers, spicy potatoes, grilled cold noodles, and all kinds of barbecue. With her skills, she buys fields and land, and even takes in a handsome young man from Lingnan as her live-in husband to work for her. As the days go by, she thinks she'll never return to the capital. Unexpectedly, the Lu family's case takes a dramatic turn, and there's a chance it could be overturned. Lu Xiaoxiao has no affection for the Lu family, but she doesn't want to spend the rest of her life under a cloud of shame either. Besides, there are plenty of people in the capital who harmed the original owner. How could she let them live carefree lives? Theme: Work hard and diligently in pursuit of a better life