Half the Court Are My Disciples (Imperial Exams)

Tong Qi was a tutoring-center teacher, worn down by life until he had no ambition left.

He couldn't pass the civil service exam or get a job at a private school. By chance, he bound himself to a [Students Everywhere] System. Before he could even get excited, he died from staying up too late and transmigrated to ancient times, becoming a ten-year-old student in the Da Feng Dynasty.

Here, the imperial examinations came first, and everything else came second.

Tong Qi rubbed his hands together, ready to take the top spot in the imperial exams, but with a ding, the System that had followed him there forcefully issued its first task.

Please recruit your school's first group of students (5 students) within ten days!

Success: Unlock a school building.

Failure: Physical execution.

Tong Qi: ...???

Has anyone noticed that I'm only ten years old? Who would take me as their teacher?!

Wouldn't it be faster to take the imperial exams myself?

To survive, he has no choice but to grit his teeth and start building a school. At first, he only has a handful of students, and no one believes he can teach them anything.

But as he teaches...

The textbooks he compiles become essential reading throughout the Da Feng Dynasty.

A little story he tells on a whim becomes the hottest tale in the teahouses.

A casual letter of complaint gets the prefect above him replaced.

The school cafeteria is packed with famous scholars.

When Tong Qi looks back, he realizes that, wow, half the court is made up of his students! Doesn't that mean he can... do whatever he wants?!

Later, after becoming an official, he says to the execution supervisor for the Nth time from inside his prison cell, "Could we talk this over? Can I write a letter to my student first?"

The execution supervisor looks grave. "There's no need to write, Grand Tutor. Your youngest student just ascended the throne!"

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Tong Qi, history's most famous imperial tutor and great scholar, left behind countless legends. But the most remarkable of all was the Huaxia Academy he founded.

They say it houses ten thousand volumes, can summon bolts of lightning to illuminate the day and night, has windows of colored glass and clouds for bedding, and that the founders of every trade claimed to have studied there. Each one called themselves their master's favorite student, and their private letters to one another were unbearably sappy.

That is, until Tong Qi's tomb was excavated.

Everything buried with him was his wife's belongings. And then more of his wife's belongings.

Only then did everyone realize he was actually a henpecked husband.

Tong Qi: "What do you mean, henpecked? Fate gave me my wife, do you understand? Fate!"

Reader's Guide:

1. The imperial examination system plus a school-management System for cultivating students everywhere. The male lead will eventually take the exams and become an official, but his students enter government first.

2. There is a female lead, but she appears later.

3. A small amount of plagiarism-style writing, used to serve the plot.

Next novel: The Max-Level Killing God Is Forced to Take the Imperial Exams

Shen Jingting spent her life on the battlefield, only to die surrounded by her own people.

Reborn, she finds that:

She has changed from a woman into a man.

The great general has become a consumptive invalid.

And an unknown System has forcibly bound itself to her, demanding that she win the top spot on the Dragon and Tiger Rankings within five years or die on the spot!

The System coaxed her, "As long as you complete the task, I can give you everything civil officials spend their lives pursuing!"

Shen Jingting: "What is it? Wealth? Weapons? Or a kingdom that will last forever?"

System: "None of those. I mean all the famous works by great writers from parallel worlds, plus top-tier skills in music, chess, calligraphy, and painting!"

Shen Jingting: "... I'm a military general. What would I need that stuff for?"

She turns away, speechless, and chooses to use brute force to steamroll everything.

System: !!!!

Later...

Shen Jingting becomes Shen Jingting.

By day, he's the greatest scholar of all time, setting the literary world ablaze with a single poem! By night, he takes up his sword and beats his way through every underground martial arts school, demanding to know who killed his former subordinates!

The Emperor: "Help! Is my throne even safe anymore? Is this an official or a killing god?!"

The noblewomen of the capital go wild for him, but the only one in his heart is the little girl who once secretly burned offerings for him at his grave.

Reader's Guide:

1. A woman transmigrates into a man. The male lead marries and has children as a normal man. No CP in his previous life, and a one-on-one romance in this life.

2. Includes plagiarism-style writing. The poems all come from the System's cheat!

3. Updates every other day before signing, then six chapters a day afterward! Come join us!

Theme: All trades have their own great masters.