No Farming, No Imperial Exams

Su Yan transmigrated to another world and became an ordinary villager, but he had a husband.

His husband was tall and sturdy, with handsome features, half a head taller than Su Yan. He'd heard that his husband was a ge'er.

Su Yan hadn't known what a ge'er was until someone explained it to him. His understanding of the world was shaken to its core, and he could only marvel that anything was possible.

The family he'd transmigrated into was desperately poor, and they had a whole gaggle of awful relatives constantly bothering them.

To improve his family's circumstances, Su Yan tried farming.

But he soon discovered that farming couldn't satisfy someone like him, who'd grown up in comfort, so he turned to business instead. After making some money, he realized that in this feudal society, scholars, farmers, artisans, and merchants were ranked in that order. No matter how much money you made, merchants remained at the bottom of society. Having a little power was far more useful.

So, after much trial and error, he finally decided to root himself in the sea of knowledge, use the pages of books as his guiding light, and embark on the imperial examination path, rising steadily through the ranks. As the saying goes:

At dawn, a farmer in his humble home; by dusk, a guest in the emperor's court.

Generals and ministers aren't born to noble blood; a man must strive to better himself.

While he struggled painfully through his books, at least he could lean against his husband's warm body.

But gradually, when he noticed a fluffy tail behind his husband's back, he realized that his husband's identity might not be so ordinary after all...

Theme: Imperial examinations can change one's fate