Strengthening the Nation Through the Imperial Exams

Meng Zhixing transmigrates into a book and becomes the frail legitimate son of a marquis.

Unfortunately, his scumbag father dotes on his concubine and neglects his wife. To ensure his illegitimate younger brother inherits the marquisate, he wastes no time sending Meng Zhixing to be adopted by his impoverished maternal uncle, just after his legitimate wife dies.

Far from the ungrateful wretches at the marquis's estate,

lying in a dilapidated thatched hut with rain leaking through the roof,

Meng Zhixing feels nothing at all. He even finds it a little funny.

Years later,

the former castoff of the marquis's household passes the imperial exams with top honors at every level, then rises to become a marquis and prime minister.

He redirects rivers, builds canals, increases grain production, opens up maritime trade, fills the treasury, and pacifies the realm... until envoys come from every corner and the whole world celebrates.

People say: Meng Zhixing is an immortal sent down from heaven. With his own strength, he ushered in a golden age.

Meng Zhixing: You flatter me. I only studied hard.

Study System: ...You've practically stripped the rewards pool bare!!!

Reader's guide:

1. A male-lead, plot-driven power fantasy. Everything serves the plot.

2. There is a female lead and a romance, but the main romance doesn't begin until the male lead is an adult.

2. Entirely fictional setting. The imperial examination system, official ranks, and other details draw on various dynasties, so please don't nitpick the history.

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● Title: The Concubine-Born Son's Road to the Imperial Exams

After Huo Guzhang dies, he transmigrates to the modern era, then back again.

In this life, he is a despised son born to a concubine.

His birth mother was forcibly taken as a concubine, a frail woman who cannot even care for herself.

His scumbag father is a live-in son-in-law who abducts women, keeps a concubine in secret, and beats his family.

In his memories, the near future holds this:

His scumbag father beats his mother to death. Afraid the authorities will investigate and his wife's family will discover his secret concubine, he kills Huo Guzhang too, then burns them both to ashes.

Afterward, his father returns to his family and enjoys a life of wealth and prestige.

Huo Guzhang refuses to accept that future.

After returning to the past, he sets a modest first goal: kill his "father" with his own hands and take his mother out of that prison.

Goal achieved.

Then he sets another modest goal: make a fortune and give his mother a good life.

Goal achieved.

After that, Huo Guzhang sets one modest goal after another.

Pass the imperial exams and enter government service: achieved.

Become the emperor's teacher: achieved.

Expand the borders: achieved.

Make his name live on in the history books: achieved!!!

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● Title: Exiled with the Tyrant Villain

When Xie Wanyang wakes up, she has become the original wife of the book's major villain.

The original is the real daughter in a switched-at-birth story, brought back only to replace the fake daughter and marry the future villain, who is about to lose his power.

She has never enjoyed a single day of wealth.

Worse, her father talks her into poisoning the villain.

In the book, once the poisoning is discovered, the original is torn apart by five horses.

Unfortunately, Xie Wanyang has arrived a little too late.

She has already replaced the fake daughter and married the future villain, and the poison has already been administered.

Xie Wanyang: ...

She knows that the realm will soon descend into chaos.

Though Xie Wanyang is too weak to even truss a chicken, after getting a second chance at life, she has no desire to live in hardship again.

How can she thrive in the coming age of chaos?

Xie Wanyang says the key is choosing the right leader.

In the book, the major villain pacifies the realm and rules as a tyrant for several years, even with poison in his brain. Without the poison, the male lead probably wouldn't stand a chance.

Xie Wanyang decides to invest early and cling firmly to the villain's coattails.

Her first move as an investor: fix the villain's only weakness by preparing an antidote.

Later, the realm is pacified.

A new dynasty is established, and two rulers govern together.

The nation prospers, the seas are calm, the land is at peace, and the harvests are abundant.

Xie Wanyang never imagined that she and the major villain would go from being commoners on the road to exile, just trying to get enough to eat, to becoming the imperial couple who ensure the people are fed, usher in a golden age, and rule the realm together.

As for the original's family, she had crushed them in the mines of the southern lands long ago.

Theme: Learning must never cease.