Farming While Preparing for the Imperial Exams in Ancient Times

[Writing full-time is hard. Please, my lovely readers, don't read pirated copies. I'm begging you.]

Blurb: After transmigrating, Zhao Ping'an becomes his older sister's little burden.

Everyone in Hexi County knows the Jiang family has taken in a child bride. She brought almost ten thousand taels of family wealth with her, as well as a baby brother who isn't even a year old.

Zhao Ping'an can't help thinking that the bad luck he had in his previous life has caught up with him again. How else can he explain that other people transmigrate as princes and nobles, or end up in another world fighting monsters and cultivating immortality, while he is stuck as a helpless baby who can do nothing but cry for milk...

Well, he's here now. Fine, he'll accept it.

But he has to go to school, right? He has to study for the civil service exams, right? He has to earn some kind of qualification, right? So why do other people get to marry a rich beauty and reach the pinnacle of life, while all he gets to do is study, read, and memorize books every day?

Zhao Ping'an slams the table in protest: Are you exploiting a bug on me? Where's my golden finger? This isn't fair!

Heaven: Get lost, get lost, get lost. You transmigrated, and now you're demanding a golden finger from me? Where's your shame?

Zhao Ping'an: "..."

Sigh! The civil service exams are harder than climbing to heaven! When one person works hard, the scores go up. When everyone works hard, the passing score goes up...

Zhao Pingyue discovers that her little brother's head is full of mischievous ideas. Before he is even a year old, he sits in on the lessons of the tutor hired by the family. By the time he's four or five, he's enrolled in school. He's the biggest troublemaker at the academy, and also its top student.

When someone at the academy bullies him for having no parents, his ten-year-old brother-in-law clenches his fists and says viciously, "I'll teach them a lesson for you."

Zhao Ping'an gives him a benevolent smile. "No need. I'll handle it myself."

That day, every student in the class gets their palm smacked.

He unexpectedly becomes a teaching assistant at the Imperial College. When the student who loses cries in front of everyone, Zhao Ping'an has to save face and offer a few words of comfort.

"Classmate, if something's wrong, you can talk to me. I'm a teaching assistant, and I'll do my best to help."

Everyone: "..." What a vicious way to twist the knife!

A note for readers: The story includes a woman disguising herself as a man. It starts slowly, and early on, the focus is more on the older sister, who is a child bride. The protagonist gets more scenes as he grows up.

My completed novel, I Came Out of the Mountains Carrying a Pig, is finished. My lovely readers, please click the author collection in the upper-right corner and add it to your favorites.

Theme: Excellence comes from diligence, not play. Even if you get a second chance, you should study hard