A Farmer's Son's Journey to the Imperial Examinations

Xu Wen transmigrated into the body of a farmer's son in the Great Xia Dynasty.

His family was huge: his grandparents, parents, second uncle and his family, third uncle and his family, and several younger brothers and sisters all crowded into one large house.

They weren't wealthy, but they were reasonably well-off.

After helping his family weed and sow seeds until his back ached and his whole body was sore, six-year-old Xu Wen had an epiphany: he would take the imperial examinations!

So he started by secretly learning from the teacher next door. He sought out teachers, entered an academy, passed the provincial examination...

And took one step after another along the road to the imperial examinations.

Xu Sanmei was reborn. In her previous life, her family scrimped and saved to support their cousin's studies, only for him to become a lecherous gambler who offended a powerful person and left the whole family destitute and alone.

This time, she absolutely would not let her cousin waste the family's wealth or offend anyone important again!

Watching her ambitious cousin, she scoffed at his pretensions.

Watching him pass the children's examination, she stubbornly insisted, with the candied hawthorn skewer he'd bought her in her mouth, that this was as far as he would get.

Watching him pass the district examination, she stared at the gifts other people brought him, wondering if her dream had been wrong.

Watching him pass the provincial and metropolitan examinations, she gazed at him with sparkling eyes. My cousin really is a reincarnation of the God of Literature!

When the villagers heard that the Xu family's grandson was going to study, they secretly laughed. How could a peasant become a scholar? The family could spend its money on better things.

His grandparents, uncles, and aunts all said in unison, “Our boy can study as much as he wants.”

The others scoffed: “Keep dreaming. Just wait until they end up destitute.”

But as they watched Xu Wen advance step by step from the children's examination all the way to the metropolitan examination, first they gaped in astonishment, then they took it all in stride. They finally understood: the Xu family's grandson really was a reincarnation of the God of Literature.

Theme: Studying can change your fate!