The Concubine's Son's Road to Success (Imperial Examinations)

Jiang Yunkang transmigrated into a book. He became a concubine-born son of a marquis's household, with an outstanding legitimate elder brother and an adorable younger brother. He was the least remarkable of them all, and his father had even casually betrothed him to someone as repayment for a favor. He had no title to inherit, and couldn't inherit the family's vast fortune either. In his previous life, Jiang Yunkang had been admitted to a master's program all the way through the recommended track. His greatest strength was taking exams, so after much thought, he decided that continuing his studies was his best prospect. Later, no one could have imagined that the repeatedly unsuccessful Jiang family's concubine-born son would pass the provincial, metropolitan, and palace examinations in succession, becoming the youngest top scholar of the Great Li dynasty. In the court, he rose steadily through the ranks, eventually reaching the highest official grade. PS: This is a fictional setting. [Please add my upcoming book, The Marquis's Beautiful Widow] She transmigrates as the eldest daughter-in-law of a marquis's household, but her husband has been dead for three years, leaving Rong Yue with two young children. Her mother-in-law is frail, and her sister-in-law is a crybaby, so managing the household falls to Rong Yue. When she learns that the marquis's household has nothing but an empty title and a mountain of bad debts, Rong Yue gazes at her breathtakingly beautiful face in the bronze mirror and decides to find herself a few powerful allies. Months later, the young son of the Grand Tutor refuses to marry anyone but her, the widowed princess royal takes a keen interest in her... and even her younger brother-in-law, who passed all three examinations, corners her in the ancestral hall. As her maid lists the people who have come to propose, Rong Yue starts to worry. She has accidentally shown too many people a little kindness, and she won't be able to manage her time~ Worse still, her husband, who was supposed to have died in battle, has returned! Theme: Read ten thousand books and travel ten thousand miles.