Transmigrating to a Scholar's Everyday Life in the Imperial Exams

Steady, reliable, and a little scheming Teacher Zhou x beautiful, flirtatious, and rather blunt Brother Song / A teacher's everyday life raising and educating a child / Upcoming mystical-pet sweet romance: "The Cat Tells Fortunes, and Every Reading Comes True"

After transmigrating, Zhou Ziyan served as a local official for seven years, only to be dismissed from his post.

He headed south, spending all his money along the way.

In the end, for the sake of three steamed buns, he sold himself into the Song family, who were looking for a tutor.

The Song family had a young brother and a seven-year-old little bean.

Zhou Ziyan made up a story about being doomed to outlive his wife and successfully landed the job.

Zhou Ziyan: So what if I was dismissed? What's so hard about taking the imperial exams again!

I already earned the Grand Slam of the imperial exams once, so I can do it again!

I never took on any students before, so I'll start a private school, become its headmaster, and lead a group of little pupils back to the capital to fight it out.

"You scholars, want to learn how to prepare systematically for the imperial exams? Come on over! The reigning top scholar, Teacher Zhou, personally wrote this guide to the key points of the imperial exam syllabus. Honest and reliable, just twenty taels."

But ever since the young brother from the Song family started studying with him, he kept bringing him poems to ask about.

Love and longing, a lover's devotion... Zhou Ziyan had a bad feeling about this.

Little Bean: Teacher, people have always said my brother was born with a tough fate, and you're doomed to outlive your wife. You're perfect for each other!

He accidentally stirred the heart of a young brother.

This fake widower was left completely flustered.

*

Song Weifeng took a liking to Teacher Zhou at first sight.

Teacher Zhou was born to outlive his wife, and Song Weifeng was born with a tough fate. They couldn't be a better match.

Too bad Teacher Zhou was as thick as a plank.

Song Weifeng studied with Teacher Zhou, then bought books like "The Handsome Scholar and the Pretty Young Brother," "A Red Apricot Branch in a Garden of Spring," and "The Tyrannical Tutor Meets the Young Brother Beneath the Peach Tree at Night," and copied their saccharine love poems.

Surely being so close would help him win Teacher Zhou's heart?

Later, Song Weifeng stood in court beside this "frail, wife-dooming" tutor.

Looking back, he realized that his tutor had once been second only to the emperor, enjoying all the splendors of the world.

Dismissed from office: to resign or be removed from one's position.

A slow-burn story about a teacher, the imperial exams, and rural life.

Reader's guide:

1. Set in a fictional world. The golden finger is ridiculously powerful, and any plot holes are because the author isn't smart enough to patch them up, qwq.

2. The main couple are mutually devoted, but there are no explicit wedding or childbirth scenes in the story.

3. I'm a sucker for all kinds of cheesy tropes, so please forgive me.

4. I'm very particular about my ships. The perspective is only for convenience in writing, so ship purists, proceed with caution.

Upcoming mystical-pet sweet romance: "The Cat Tells Fortunes, and Every Reading Comes True"

A feisty, wife-loving, black-faced little black cat x a honey-skinned, doting cat owner / 1v1, no switching or breaking up / Lots of cat form

Lu Xiaochen is a tuxedo cat. After cultivating for hundreds of years, he woke from a nap to find that his Taoist temple had become a tourist attraction.

Not only did he have to buy a ticket to go home, but his scratching post and litter box had become antique exhibits.

How embarrassing! Outrageous!

Meowing all the way, Lu Xiaochen snuck into a prestigious university to accumulate merit, recruit top students, and help kitty build a new home!

*

A deranged tuxedo cat showed up at Baihe University, leaping about and picking fights with everyone.

But the students discovered that whenever they talked through their troubles with the cat, everything was magically resolved!

"Boss Kitty, I keep seeing a girl in a red dress in my dreams. Does that mean romance is coming my way?"

"Boss Kitty, I never study, yet still get good grades. Could I be a genius?"

"Boss Kitty..."

The red-clad senior who wandered the sports field at midnight to scare people: a swat of the paw sent her off to reincarnate.

The decrepit teaching building where students died every year: one talisman, then tear it down and rebuild it.

The evil teacher who stole students' luck: sent straight to the underworld to do hard labor!

Human-faced evil spirits, paper-skin ghosts, a land of shadowy springs, and a bizarre staircase where climbing thirteen steps takes you back where you started...

Lu Xiaochen (licking his paw): This place is perfect for rebuilding my cat home, meow~

So overnight, a dilapidated Taoist temple, complete with a pile of cat supplies, sprang up on the university sports field!

Student 1: Why is there a Taoist temple on campus? How could I have a dream like this? (￣-￣)

Student 2: "How Many Years in Prison for Practicing Feudal Superstition at a University?" "Can a Tuxedo Cat Go to Jail?"

Student 3: The family has assigned us jobs after graduation, everyone, but don't ask whether we'll be working in the world of the living or the underworld. :)

*

Chen Junshan was discharged from the military after being injured and became head of security at Baihe University.

Everything was going great.

Until a tuxedo cat showed up on campus, not only acting like it owned the place but also spreading feudal superstition!

Chen Junshan battled wits with the cat every day, losing time and time again but never giving up.

The tuxedo cat's chubby paws would either squeeze his chest or ram into his butt...

Trying to chase the cat away, Chen Junshan even fell in front of his crush, his male idol, got possessed by a ghost, and made a fool of himself...

"..." Chen Junshan was desperate. He felt like he'd never get a happy ending with his idol in this lifetime.

Until one day, his idol turned into a tuxedo cat.

Then it put its paw on his chest and gave it a squeeze.

#MySecretCrushTurnedIntoOneHugeChonkyCat

#WhatDoYouDoWhenHeGetsHandsy

Lu Xiaochen: A retired special forces soldier, upright and old-fashioned, broad shoulders and a narrow waist, dark skin... Fine, he's also big-chested and dumb, with a very perky butt... Holy meow, what a sexy big butt. Let kitty give it a squeeze. (=w=)

Chen Junshan: I raised a rotten cat.jpg

A wish-fulfillment story with an overpowered golden finger and no logic. The bottom is a lovesick, sweet wife who adores the top; the top is an overbearing CEO with a lecherous streak who spoils the bottom rotten. Locked into 1v1, no suggestive content.

Theme: Education must not suffer, no matter how poor you are; children must not suffer, no matter how hard things get.