The Road to Grand Secretariat Through the Imperial Exams

Coming soon in my column: Transmigrated as the Female Lead's Cousin in an Imperial Exam Novel

Blurb:

Yang Yunqing was a graduate student in classical Chinese, about to graduate, when in the blink of an eye he got into a car accident and transmigrated to an unfamiliar dynasty, the Great Zhou. He became a nine-year-old boy.

Fortunately, unlike so many transmigrators who ended up as the child of a farming family in ancient times, he had landed in a wealthy household with a decent amount of money to spare.

But he arrived to find both his parents dead, leaving him no choice but to pull himself together and shoulder the family business.

In ancient times, commoners had no rights, and there was no future in business. Yang Yunqing had no choice but to take the imperial exams. After all, that was more or less in his field, wasn't it?

A versatile talent in both the arts and sciences, Yang Yunqing declared, “I can pass the imperial exams and become an official with my literary skills, and make cement and glass with my scientific knowledge. I guess Heaven gave me a golden finger!”

The road to an official post through the imperial exams was long. Let's see how Yang Yunqing climbed to the top and rose to become Chief Grand Secretary.

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Coming soon: Transmigrated as the Female Lead's Cousin in an Imperial Exam Novel

Also known as The Merchant's Son's Journey to Office Through the Imperial Exams

Wei Yuzan transmigrated into a book, an imperial-exam romance novel, where he became the cousin of the female lead and the other young ladies of the Mei family.

In the original story, Wei Yuzan was the nephew of the female lead's stepmother, a merchant's son. By chance, he became engaged to the female lead's older stepsister. After his family fell on hard times, he went to the capital to seek help from his aunt.

Though this cousin was only an average student, he was very handsome. He secretly flirted with every young lady in the Mei household, winning their affections and setting them against one another.

In the end, this hypocritical cousin naturally got what was coming to him. The male lead exposed his true colors, leaving him disgraced and ruined.

Wei Yuzan arrived at a time that was neither too early nor too late. His family had fallen on hard times, but he hadn't yet gone to the capital to seek his aunt's help, and none of the sordid events had happened.

Naturally, Wei Yuzan wasn't about to follow in his predecessor's footsteps, do every wicked thing imaginable, and end up disgraced and ruined.

A merchant's son had neither power nor influence, and even some minor clerk could order him around. In his previous two lives, Wei Yuzan had been born into prominent families and was as handsome as Pan An, a literary talent. Now that he had another chance at life, how could he let others dictate his fate and remain beneath them?

For someone like Wei, retaking the imperial exams was a simple matter. The titles of licentiate and provincial graduate would come as easily as turning over his hand.

Top scholar, then Chief Grand Secretary. He would rise to the top through the imperial exams and officialdom, going from a merchant's son to an imperial tutor to two emperors, and his name would shine in the history books!

Theme: Empty talk harms the nation, while practical work makes it prosper.