After Persuading Mother to Divorce (Imperial Examinations)

★★ The author's completed novel with a similar premise, The Arduous Road of a Powerful Official (Imperial Examinations), is finished. Visit the author's column to read it~~ Synopsis: (As always, a male-protagonist farming, imperial-exam, and leveling-up story. He has a golden finger, but he still has to work hard and take the exams honestly!) After much struggle, Sheng Yanchu finally saved enough to buy a 39-square-meter studio apartment. On the night he moved in, an earthquake struck, and he died in the disaster. When he awoke, he had become the eldest son of the declining merchant Sheng family. His father was a despicable Chen Shimei type. Not long after Sheng Yanchu was born, the man ran off with his mistress after making off with the family fortune. Without his father to back them up, the elder Shengs threw him and his mother out and divided the family assets. Fine, let them divide the family! Just as the Shengs were looking forward to seeing him make a fool of himself without the family's protection, the imperial court suddenly issued an edict granting a special favor: sons of merchants up to the third generation were now allowed to take the imperial examinations! Sheng Yanchu clenched his little fists: My career spring has finally arrived~~ But as he watched his mother stand at the threshold, day after day, waiting for that deadbeat father to come home, Sheng Yanchu sighed to himself. Before he could focus on his studies, he needed to find his mother a new husband and himself a new father. His mother would need a dowry to remarry... But his father had already drained the Sheng family's resources dry... Just as he was fretting over this, he suddenly discovered that his studio apartment had come with him to this world!! Even better, the apartment held other indescribable surprises! From then on, he officially embarked on two arduous paths: finding his mother a husband and studying for the imperial examinations. One day, when the high-ranking Lord Sheng looked back on his life, he couldn't help reflecting that, while the imperial exams were no easy task, finding his mother a husband had been even harder. ▉ Content warning: A minor character has a danmei storyline. It isn't a major part of the story, and it ends in tragedy. Please don't read if that's a problem for you! P.S. ①: This story blends different systems and includes original worldbuilding. It contains educational information about the imperial examinations and related topics. References to ancient books and online encyclopedia entries are marked; anything missed will be added in the author's notes later. (Heart) ②: Early farming arc (slow burn) + imperial exams, followed by officialdom. The main focus is the exams and making money. ③: There is a female lead, but she appears late. ④: Why does he have to find his mother a husband? This will be explained later. ⑤: An alternate world! ⑥: An alternate world! ⑦: An alternate world! ▉▉▉▉Coming soon ①: My Green-Tea Ex-Husband Is Mooching Off My Pocket Dimension Synopsis: [Cheat-wielding hoarder Hua Shi x Truly green-tea, supposedly upright scholar ex-husband] Hua Zhao possesses a secret pocket dimension: a small courtyard house. Inside, it's spring all year round. Outside, endless white mist hangs beneath a constant drizzle. One day, as Hua Zhao hurried back and forth, stashing food in her pocket dimension, someone suddenly knocked on the courtyard gate. "Is anyone there? Could you let this humble scholar in to shelter from the rain?" The man's voice was warm and refined, like the sound of jade. Yet Hua Zhao felt only bitter heartache when she heard it. She knew the man outside the courtyard in her pocket dimension all too well In her previous life, she was kindhearted and easily bullied. She spent her money supporting the poor scholar Mu Lianzhou through the imperial examinations and into officialdom, only to receive a handwritten divorce agreement in the end. "The righteous are often rough folk, while the faithless are often scholars." The old saying had never been truer. "Nobody's here! Nobody, nobody!" Hua Zhao yelled fiercely at the gate. In this life, she would never foolishly let that ungrateful wolf inside again. Outside, Mu Lianzhou stood drenched from head to toe: "..." Little liar, I heard you talking. There's also a version from the male lead's perspective. Visit the author's column to check it out~ ▉▉▉▉Coming soon ②: The Farm Boy Scholar Breaks Off His Engagement (Imperial Examinations) ★★ Male protagonist, imperial exams + leveling up + farming On the day he carried his father's coffin to the grave, fourteen-year-old Xu Yanqing was jilted. His childhood sweetheart immediately married his classmate and friend, who had just passed the prefectural exam and earned the title of licentiate. Xu, meanwhile, had been stripped of his right to take the exams because he had passed while in mourning, a serious breach of examination protocol. Once he buried his father, he was supposed to go to prison. On the mountain, Xu Yanqing knelt before the red-lacquered coffin without shedding a single tear. He offered incense, dug the grave, and buried the coffin, doing it all himself. Just as the coffin was being nailed shut and laid to rest, Xu Yanqing, who had endured humiliation for years, suddenly stood up If they showed him no mercy, he would show them none either. He sprinted to the docks and intercepted an official vessel. In a corner of the cabin, there sat Xu's father, who should have been lying dead in the coffin. Xu's father was stunned. He covered his face and tried to flee, but Xu Yanqing laughed in fury. His voice came down cold and cruel, each word clear: "I'm sending you back to your coffin." Xu's father was so terrified that his breath caught. He would never have imagined that his usually refined and well-mannered son could one day become more terrifying than a vengeful ghost, personally shoving him, a living man, into the coffin, nailing it shut, and burying him. After this, Xu Yanqing went from a courteous young gentleman to a vicious wolf in the eyes of the people. His biological father was cruel, so he carried thorns on his back and knelt in the ancestral hall, begging to sever their family ties His stepmother was unkind, so he wrote a sensational story portraying her as a woman who climbed over the wall to meet her lover The imperial-exam route was blocked, so he built a fortune with his clever hands, even making the county magistrate his lackey His childhood sweetheart disliked him and married someone else, so he simply found someone new Licentiate, provincial graduate, and palace graduate: this farm boy climbed ever higher, all the way to the imperial court. Yet Xu Yanqing entered the Grand Secretariat four times, became chief minister three times, and had students and former subordinates throughout the land. His marriage, however, was beset by endless twists and turns. The history books say Lord Xu did not wear red wedding robes and marry until he was thirty. Little scene: On his wedding night, Xu Yanqing learned that he was the powerful-official male lead of a no-romance outline. Looking at his new bride sleeping with her head resting on his arm, Xu Yanqing fell into a long silence. Xu Yanqing: I've already taken a wife, so this outline must have gone off the rails, right? Theme: Even in adversity, remain independent and strong. Work hard, pursue your studies, and build a better life.