Another novel from the same author: I Became a Top-Tier Star in a Republican-Era Song and Dance Troupe
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[This Novel]
Qin Xiao has just been accepted into a top-tier university's graduate program. Before he can even enjoy his success, he unexpectedly transmigrates into an imperial-examination novel as the hot-tempered, despicable eldest legitimate son of the villainous family.
In terms of looks, he is tall and burly, with a fierce gaze. He is clearly a brute.
In terms of learning, he is simple-minded and can't put a sentence together. He is obviously going nowhere.
To make matters worse, he has beaten up the county magistrate, Lord Qiao's only son, costing his father his low-ranking ninth-grade post. The family can only move back to the countryside, where the villagers mock them and the magistrate seeks revenge.
The whole family is disappointed in him and decides to give up on their hopeless, brutish son and focus on raising Qin Huan, the clever, hardworking, studious concubine-born son.
Facing such a disastrous start, Qin Xiao has the imperial-examination forum he knows inside and out, so he feels there's still hope.
Commoners are forbidden from attending the family school, so he studies all night, passes the entrance exam in first place, and earns the county deputy magistrate's praise and special permission to study for free.
When the sons of officials bully him, he wins them over with virtue. He downloads the latest study materials from the exam forum and shares them selflessly, helping his classmates improve together.
When his identity is exposed and enemies come after him, he reasons with them and appeals to their emotions, moving his pursuers to tears until they turn over a new leaf.
Before long, the bullied country boy becomes the school's star. Not only do his classmates admire and respect him, but even the outspoken young daughter of the county deputy magistrate falls for him.
Later, Qin Xiao places first in all three imperial examinations, enters the Hanlin Academy and then the Grand Secretariat, and is made a marquis and minister. His life is complete. The villagers from his old home are quick to mutter to anyone who will listen, "He's made something of himself and forgotten where he came from."
They never expect Qin Xiao to return from the capital with great sums of money and loads of books, build a school, and sponsor poor students, transforming this remote frontier into a hometown of top scholars and earning an enduring reputation.
[Reading Guide]
1. Set in an imaginary ancient world. Please don't nitpick historical details.
2. There is a female lead, one-on-one romance, both leads are inexperienced, and the main focus is the imperial examinations and official career.
Theme: Knowledge changes your fate.
I ranked first in the re-examination and then encountered a mistake... I was preparing for the postgraduate entrance examination and my blood spurted out! It's so suffocating ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh