The Eldest Son's Daily Struggle to Pass the Imperial Exams

At last, smoke rose from the ancestral graves of the fallen noble Gu family.

Three brothers from one family had all passed the metropolitan exams. From the grandest mansions in the capital to the lowliest street vendors, everyone envied them.

Yet Gu Ningyun, the eldest legitimate son and head of the Gu family, couldn't bring himself to smile.

His second brother was a straightforward tech nerd who had transmigrated here. He buried himself in research, and after his superior stole credit for his work, he stayed up all night memorizing his older brother's insults before going to argue with him. Then he forgot his lines on the spot and lost the argument.

His third brother was a reborn, hotheaded idealist with an adolescent streak, a textbook case of being reborn without changing his brain. He knew all sorts of dirty secrets about their political enemies, but could only bring himself to write letters to his older brother and tattle.

Gu Ningyun was genuinely afraid that one day he'd wake up to hear his two younger brothers had been demoted to Lingnan to ride cockroaches.

The eldest young master Gu had always been fiercely ambitious and proud. He could lose his head and shed his blood, but he would never let his perfect image take a hit. He would absolutely not accept the history books mentioning him only to add that he had two good-for-nothing brothers riding cockroaches in Lingnan.

Desperate to save face, Gu Ningyun worked his way up, while his disaster-prone brothers, already halfway to riding on cockroach wings, wept with gratitude. "Big brother, we're starving, please save us QAQ"

Reader's Guide:

1. There are exactly three transmigrators and reborn characters in the whole story, all in the Gu family. The protagonist is blessed with an overwhelmingly good destiny.

2. The protagonist is a ruthless capitalist who only pulls strings behind the scenes. He's a transmigrator with negative points who can't even make soap.

3. Everyone knows where the "please save us" meme comes from. I couldn't find anything to read, so I had to write it myself.

Theme: Study hard and strive for success