An Imperial Exam Exchange Student, but I'm Taking the Graduate Entrance Exam

While preparing for graduate school entrance exams, Gua Shutong swaps souls with a juren from ancient times. The juren is handsome. His face is as fair as jade, his manner gentle and refined. He stands like an elegant orchid tree and smiles like the moon shining in his arms. He comes from a good family. Born into an illustrious scholarly clan, his family has endured through several dynasties without ever falling into decline. He's brilliant, too. He placed first in the county, prefectural, and academy examinations, then won the title of Jieyuan in the autumn provincial exam, eclipsing all others. His only flaw is that his health is poor. He gets out of breath after a few steps, coughs after a few words, and faints at the slightest provocation. One moment she's arguing with troublemakers at the academy gate. The next, poof, she's spitting blood. A moment ago she was rolling up her sleeves to defend a classmate. The next, bam, she's fainted. Even stranger, as she spits blood, the troublemakers immediately start vomiting and suffering from diarrhea. When she faints, the person throwing a tantrum becomes a vegetable on the spot. So when someone else starts trouble, Gua Shutong doesn't even look up. "Don't say I didn't warn you. You'd better not push me into having an episode. I might be fine when I have one, but you definitely won't be." While everyone is spreading rumors that the Xie family's young master has a contagious illness, Gua Shutong is still writing furiously and studying by lamplight. To her, spitting blood is just a side gig. Passing the imperial examinations is the real goal. She plans to pass next year's spring examination and become a gongshi. Don't ask. It's just the exam-taking gene, soldered into her bones. As the saying goes, you study as long as you live. Graduate school entrance exams are exams, and the gongshi exam is an exam too. If they're both exams, does it matter where you take them? · Twenty-two-year-old Xie Qingti, a juren of Great Qi who is famously known far and wide for being weak and delicate, somehow switches bodies with a modern girl. In the modern girl's words, their situation is called an exchange program. But why did nobody tell him that an exchange program could turn him from a man into a woman? Aside from the gender issue, though, Xie Qingti thinks he's doing pretty well as an exchange student. Before, he'd been sickly, getting dizzy every few steps and short of breath every few more. Now he can carry two bags of rice and ten cabbages up eight flights of stairs without even getting winded. Of course, there are times when things don't go so well. For example, when his dorm roommate accidentally gets her bed wet and suggests they share his for the night. Xie Qingti's ears turn red as he clutches the covers tightly. "Miss, please mind yourself. Men and women should keep their distance." Or when the cute junior from the sports college next door invites him to a movie on Qixi and tries to kiss him when the mood is just right. Without a second thought, Xie Qingti swings a fist at him. "Brother, please mind yourself. Men and women should keep their distance." His roommate can't take it anymore. "You won't let me in your bed, and you won't date anyone. What are you even doing?" Xie Qingti answers with complete seriousness. "Studying. We agreed that she'd take the gongshi exam and I'd take the graduate entrance exam. We'll meet at the summit." [Reading Guide] ① 1v1 + both leads are sexually inexperienced + happy ending ② The fictional setting is piled high with made-up details. Everything exists to serve the plot. ③ This novel strictly follows the rules of honest examination. The female and male leads will switch back later and take their own exams, so there is no impersonation. (Put the word 'rigorous' on the screen!) [To avoid any future disputes, this blurb was written on March 9, 2023, and a screenshot has been saved as proof.] Theme: You think I'm reading a novel? No, I'm actually studying!