Rising to the Clouds (Imperial Exams)

After transmigrating, Shen Changlin became the adopted son of a poor family. They had little land and were desperately impoverished. Shen Changlin vowed to change his circumstances, but he was no good at manual labor and had no capital to go into business. After thinking it over, he decided the only choice was to study for the imperial examinations. Before transmigrating, he had at least graduated from a top university, so he would climb the ladder one step at a time, from licentiate to provincial graduate to metropolitan graduate and finally to palace graduate. * Everyone in Xianshui Village said that the Qian family was a bunch of unlucky wretches. The men were frail, and the women had trouble bearing children. They must have offended Heaven. Who could have guessed that fortune would turn, and two golden phoenixes would rise from their humble home, one of them the adopted boy who became the top scholar? From then on, the Shen family rose steadily to prominence, their official careers flourishing. Their top scholar became a venerable minister who served three reigns, a guardian minister enshrined in the Imperial Ancestral Temple. Every woman in the Shen family received an honorific title and enjoyed stipends and privileges. During his decades in office, Shen Changlin reformed the military and government, cleansed the bureaucracy, developed the economy, fostered cultural and moral progress, and ushered in a prosperous age. He became a great statesman, praised by generations to come. Theme: Face life with a positive attitude.