Transmigrating to Take the Imperial Exams

Ji Yuan transmigrates into an unknown dynasty and wakes up when a calf nudges him. Once he comes to his senses, he realizes that he's become an eight-year-old orphan who tends cattle. The sound of someone reciting lessons nearby brings him back to reality. Ji Yuan looks at the silly calf, then at the lively school nearby. From then on, the cowherd picks up a new hobby: auditing classes! His cousin at the village school laughs at him, and the village chief's grandson picks on him. A cowherd thinks he can take the imperial examinations? Dream on! Ji Yuan doesn't care at all. A cowherd today, top scholar tomorrow. He, Ji Yuan, is going to take the imperial examinations! A licentiate, a provincial graduate, then a presented scholar. How come, the more exams he takes, The more it looks like he's really going to become the top scholar? Many years later, the handsome new top scholar, having passed the palace examinations, recalls the past and can't help saying, "It was an ordinary afternoon?" The Grand Secretary rolls his eyes at his most cherished disciple. With talent like that, why reminisce? Hurry up and go serve as an official. The first thing Ji Yuan does after becoming an official Is still tend cattle! Tending cattle, farming, building infrastructure and roads: never forget your roots! Many years later, the deeds of Ji Yuan, the new Grand Secretary, have spread throughout the land. So what if you're a cowherd? You can still pass the imperial examinations! P.S. 1v1. The romance begins after age sixteen. Imperial examinations, infrastructure, farming [There are a few lightly copied-from-classics scenes, so proceed with caution if that bothers you. (Three poems early on.)] -- A little recommendation for my upcoming novel, County Magistrate After Transmigrating, and my food-themed novel, Little Matchmaker. Please add them to your reading lists! County Magistrate After Transmigrating Ji Chu transmigrates and becomes a newly appointed county magistrate. He comes from a family of farmers and scholars. His more than ten family members have supported his studies for twenty years. Not wanting to burden his family any longer, his predecessor hurried to take part in the selection process as soon as he earned his degree. With no connections or support, he was assigned to the borderlands, where banditry was rampant. He thought he'd never return, but he died on the road and Ji Chu took his place. Ji Chu looks at his newlywed wife, who has set off with him in a hurry, then at the borderlands just ahead. He grits his teeth. Time to take up the post. After arriving at the border, he repairs the city walls, stores grain and supplies, and opens up farmland. He makes the people prosperous. Huh? Weren't foreign tribes supposed to keep invading? How come they stopped coming? His subordinate: Take a look at the walls you built! And those bows you designed. Who would dare come near? Anyone who dares invade our borders, we'll chase you five hundred li! How come, the longer he serves as a county magistrate, the more it feels like he's going to be made a marquis? -- Little Matchmaker (Food) Su Yin, a modern woman who grew up listening to opera at an orphanage alongside a little matchmaker, accidentally transmigrates into an unknown ancient dynasty and becomes a newborn baby. Her mother is still in confinement, holding her, when she tells the neighbor girl that she's found her a good match. And so she's named Su Yinyin. Who could have guessed that from then on, every couple in love she meets will end up together? Like the lost young lovers she brings together, who were about to die for love. Like the future top scholar and the young lady from a prominent family whose match she makes during a garden outing. And somehow, even tripping over can lead to her grabbing the sleeves of two eligible young men! Her military general father scoops her up and says to her brother with a stern face, "See? Your sister is the luckiest person in our family." What does that even have to do with anything? Who knew her equally stern brother would nod emphatically and immediately agree! After that, Su Yinyin becomes a famous little matchmaker far and wide. Any family with an unmarried young man past the usual age comes to see her. Even the empress is curious about this lucky little girl and summons her to court. Wait, why does the crown prince beside the empress look so familiar? Isn't he the friend who helped her talk someone out of jumping into a river? Su Yinyin glances at him without thinking, and with that one look, her own match is made. P.S. 1. Su is everyone's darling, and everyone loves her. 2. Everyday life. Theme: Keep working hard at life, and good luck will come your way.