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- 1 The Imperial Exams: Top Scholar at Fourteen, and My Whole Family Is Stunned 科举：十四岁案首，全家都懵了 [Everyday life + imperial examinations + lighthearted power fantasy + warmth + coming-of-age] Xiao Yunzheng transmigrates into another world and becomes the “bookworm” mocked by the entire village. His father spent his whole life trying to pass the lowest level of the imperial examinations and never succeeded. The villagers all say the Xiao family is doomed to die out and will never rise again. His mother worries herself gray-haired, his eldest sister protects him with a cleaver, and his little 6.4kReads7.5Score62214d adds
- 2 The Imperial Exams: The Best in the Land Is a Woman! 科举：天下第一是女郎！ [Disguised as a Man | Imperial Examinations and Officialdom | A Genius's Growth | Court Intrigue | Slow-Burn Romance] On the night Xie Mingze was born, two cries rang out in the delivery room, one after the other, yet the Xie family reported only one boy. Her twin brother didn't survive the night. The girl who lived was entered into the male register by her grandmother. Inside the family home, she was her mother's daughter; outside, she became the Xie family's only young master. She has complet 367Reads—Score—14d adds
- 3 Poor Scholar, Grand Secretary: My Teacher Is Xu Jie 寒门首辅：家师徐阶 The early pacing is fast, with a focus on court politics. The protagonist is poor and under pressure at first, and that part has a few issues. If you find it hard to read, you can skip ahead to chapter 80 for the career-focused storyline. “Before the steps of the Golden Hall, half are the bones of scholars. The other half are the people's marrow, congealed. The alchemical furnace swallows every soaring ambition, then exhales it as frozen lines in the history books.” “By dawn, a farmhand; by dusk 372Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 4 Saving My Family Through the Imperial Exams: I Win Top Honors with My Talent 科举救家：我靠才华状元及第 Zhao Yan, a doctoral graduate, pulled an all-nighter and died suddenly. When he opened his eyes, he had become a sickly child from a poor family in Great Zhou! His scholar father had been framed and had the tendons in his hand severed. His mother had cried herself dry, and his sister traded embroidered handkerchiefs for rice to keep the family fed. Then the Ma family’s thugs came to force his father to kneel and sign a contract, trampling a scholar’s dignity into the mud! Zhao Yan clenched his f 377Reads7.2Score10014d adds
- 5 I Take the Imperial Exam Seriously 科举我是认真的 Overnight, he transmigrates and becomes a poor farm boy in the Great Jiang Kingdom, with nothing but the bare walls of his home. His only “golden finger” is the arsenal of skills he learned in his previous life through exam prep and working his way through school. Looking at the thin porridge in his bowl, clear enough to see his reflection, Li Pingbao decides to break through by pursuing an official career through the imperial examinations… 14.8kReads8.2Score1.4k14d adds
- 6 Everyone in My Family Is a Martial Artist, but I'm the Only One Who Can Pass the Imperial Exams 全家都是武夫，只有我会搞科举 [Beloved by the Whole Family] [Feel-Good Power Fantasy] [Crushing Everyone with Intelligence] [Easygoing Daily Life] [Imperial Exams] [Plagiarism for Success] The animated series is now available: "The Whole Family Are Martial Artists: I Alone Rise Above Them." Search for it on the site. Everyone in the family can lift a heavy cauldron with one hand. Only the second son, Li Changqing, is so frail he cannot shoulder a load or lift a finger. All he wants is to study the classics of the sages. His 24.5kReads8.0Score2.6k14d adds
- 7 The Imperial Exams: A Farmer’s Son Rises to the Heavens and Enjoys Everyday Life 科举：农家子登天纵享日常 [A farmer's son pursues the imperial examinations + farming without a System + everyday food] A modern orphan wakes up in ancient times in the body of a true farmer's son. Starting from the very bottom, he pursues the imperial examinations and defies fate. He discovers all kinds of medicinal herbs in the mountains, prepares them, and sells them for money. He teaches his family to make cassava noodles, malt sugar, and tofu, and develops instant noodles, distilled liquor, soy sauce, and more... He 2.6kReads7.1Score18314d adds
- 8 I’m the Star of Literature Incarnate! You’re Selling Me Off to Fund Your Stepson’s Imperial Exams? 我文曲星下凡！你卖我扶持继子科举？ [History + imperial examinations + book attendant + play the pig to eat the tiger + passionate power fantasy] Shen Yang, a PhD in literature, transmigrates to ancient times, only to become a book attendant sold into servitude. From the start, the difficulty is set to hell! An evil stepmother is waiting for him up front, and a tyrannical young master is on his heels. Worse still, every book attendant before him met a mysterious and untimely death! Fortunately, his mind holds the greatest treasure 273Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 9 The Peerless Bookworm Who Became the Top Scholar Overnight 绝世书童，摇身惊变状元郎 [History + Book Boy + Imperial Exams + Play the Pig to Eat the Tiger + Invincible] Shi Mo, a professor of ancient literature on Blue Star, transmigrates into the body of a farm boy in Great Qian who shares his name. His father doesn’t care for him, his mother doesn’t love him, and he’s sold to the Zhuang family to work as a page. See how he passes the imperial exams and comes first as a page, enters the imperial court, battles treacherous officials, upholds justice, and climbs step by step towar 118Reads8.4Score—14d adds
- 10 A Literature Professor Taking the Imperial Exams? Let’s Crush the Competition! 文学系教授考科举？卷死众人吧！ [Farming + imperial examinations + court politics + heartwarming everyday life + fictional setting + marriage and children, though they play a small part] Xu Heng had just been appointed a professor in the Literature Department of A University. Before he could celebrate, he transmigrated into the eldest grandson of the Xu family's main branch in the Great Xia dynasty. The Xu family is a harmonious one, where parents are kind and children filial. Though they live in poverty, they pool all their r 485Reads—Score—14d adds
- 11 Transmigrated as a Spoiled Prodigy? I'll Happily Take the Top Scholar Title 穿成被养废的神童？状元我笑纳了 One moment he was a powerful modern official; the next, he had transmigrated into Fang Xuan, a poor-born prodigy who could compose poetry at five but was ruined by his family by the age of ten. He opens his eyes to a disastrous start: his parents are dragging him around, making him recite poetry and perform for money. He turns the situation to his advantage, reciting a perfect poem at a banquet and catching the eye of a powerful patron. At last, he has a chance to turn his life around! When it c 71Reads8.6Score2714d adds
- 12 The Imperial Examinations from a Humble Family: A Farming Family's Wronged Eldest Son Fights His Way to the Top 寒门科举：农家冤种长子逆袭路 [Transmigration + Imperial Examinations + Farming + Officialdom] Cheng Haiyue, a modern humanities PhD, transmigrates into the body of a hapless farmer's eldest son, who worked himself to death supporting his third younger brother's studies for the imperial exams. A heartless father, a biased mother, a selfish younger brother, and him, the family's sacrificial lamb. Cheng Haiyue sighs. In his previous life, he had finally managed to escape the mountains, only to end up back there after transmigr 25.4kReads8.5Score2.6k14d adds
- 13 My Five Sisters Helped Me Reach for the Clouds, So I Won Them Noble Titles 五姐扶我青云志，我送她们诰命身 Zhang Xiaozhi, a modern liberal arts student, transmigrates into the ancient world as Zhang Xiaozhu, the son of a butcher. He is too weak to lift a load or even hold a tool, and looks set to starve to death. His mother grits her teeth and decides to send him to school, but his butcher father refuses to hear of it. Studying will never make money as fast as slaughtering pigs. Just then, his eldest sister, Jinhua, speaks up: “Father, Mother, stop arguing. I agree that Zhu'er should study.” His se 695Reads6.7Score10714d adds
- 14 The Top Scholar from a Poor Family: The Whole Village Helps Me Rise to Greatness 寒门状元：全村扶我青云志 The soul of a modern PhD in Chinese Language and Literature is trapped in the frail body of a seven-year-old orphan in the Great Xia Dynasty. What he possesses is a way of thinking powerful enough to overturn an entire era. What he faces is utter poverty, with only his frail older sister to rely on. No heaven-defying System, no fantastical martial arts, only knowledge and wisdom from a thousand years in the future. He will make the imperial examinations his sole battlefield and begin an unpre 1.4kReads7.6Score10214d adds
- 15 Striving Forward 奋进 This is not an accident, nor is it the end. It is a brand-new beginning. Only by continuing forward can we find hope. Not everyone enjoys hardship and toil. You need a goal in your heart to keep moving forward. 20Reads—Score—14d adds
- 16 A Late-Born Son of a Farmer Takes the Imperial Exam and Leaves the Emperor Stunned 农家老来子考科举，强到朕傻眼了 Also known as The Late-Born Son of a Farming Family Takes the Civil Service Exams, and Grows So Powerful Even the Emperor Is Stunned; I Entered Government Through the Civil Service Exams and Became a Powerful Minister of Great Qian; Song Yuan, a rising star in the legal world, dies in a car accident and transmigrates into a farming family in Great Qian, becoming the late-born son whom the whole village mocks. With disasters striking one after another and his family mired in poverty, his life fro 12.1kReads8.1Score1.1k14d adds
- 17 The Imperial Exams Are No Easy Feat, So I’ll Take My Whole Family to the Azure Sky 科举不易，我携全家共青云 Lin Shu opened his eyes and found himself reborn as a newborn in a farming family in Xiaolin Village, Great Yong. In his previous life, he was alone, bedridden and sick. In this life, his family gathered around him, their home warm with lamplight. His frail mother embroidered money for books by lamplight. His silent father used his own back to open the way for him to study. His gentle older sister poured her girlhood into the soup she made for him. Even the eggs his grandparents secretly slipped 17kReads8.8Score1.6k14d adds
- 18 Top Scorer in All Six Imperial Exams, and You Call Him a Good-for-Nothing? 六元及第，你说他是废柴 Cheng Ye, a modern inheritor of intangible cultural heritage, was reborn into the Great Qian dynasty, a realm unrecorded in history. In an age when everything was considered inferior to scholarship, watch him use the knowledge he gained in his previous life to lead his family from utter poverty to becoming the richest in Great Qian, and rise from a farmer’s son to the dynasty’s chief minister. P.S. There is no female lead. The story features plenty of delicious food and many forms of intangible 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 19 At Hoeing Time Beneath the Midday Sun, I Fell for the Imperial Exams 锄禾日当午我和科举处 [Imperial examinations + daily life + romance, with a male-female pairing; the protagonist is still a child at this stage] Su Yan transmigrates into a new life as an infant in swaddling clothes, born premature and frail into a family with nothing but four bare walls. He’d already lived freely enough in his previous life, and now, everything goes black before his eyes. He just wants to give up and be reborn as soon as possible. But each time he’s on the brink of death, he narrowly survives. He ch 2Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 20 My Precious Grandson's Journey to the Imperial Exams 宝贝孙子的科举之路 My grandma is what everyone calls a nightmare, but she absolutely dotes on me and gives me anything I want. In that case, I'll make sure she gets to live a life free of worries, with fine clothes and plenty to eat. (No romance between people of the same sex. None. Any mentions of it early on are just a misunderstanding.) 4Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 21 The Imperial Examinations of a Farming Family 农门科举 [Turbulent Court, Speaking Up for the People] After an accident, Zhang Ping transmigrates to an impoverished farming family in ancient times. Scene One “To establish a path for the people, preserve the lost teachings of the sages, and bring peace to all generations: this is our mission. Even if we die nine times, we shall have no regrets.” Zhang Ping asked, “Teacher, isn't this the original aspiration of us scholars?” Scene Two He never forgot his original aspiration. After great hardship, Zhang 99Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 22 I Wanted to Be a Butcher, So Why Are You Making Me Take the Exams to Become Top Scholar? 我想杀猪，为何逼我科举考状元？ [Aimed at male readers. Don't read if that's not your thing.] [Imperial examinations + transmigration + butcher + pocket dimension + political intrigue] Xie Qingzhuo, head of obstetrics and gynecology, was on the verge of becoming a deputy hospital director when he died from overwork. When he opened his eyes, he had transmigrated. As the eldest grandson of the Xie family, Xie Qingzhuo was doted on. Thinking of how hard he'd worked in his previous life, Xie Qingzhuo decided to lie flat and enjoy 414Reads8.4Score—14d adds
- 23 The Chen Family Ancestral Grounds Are Smoking, and a Top Scholar Has Emerged 老陈家祖地冒烟出状元了 A great fire, a selfless sacrifice, and Chen Ping'an, a librarian at the Palace Museum, is accidentally reborn in the Great Xia dynasty, a realm much like the Ming dynasty, as a six-year-old farmer's boy, carrying with him the knowledge of an entire library. In an age dominated by farming, Confucianism, and the civil service examinations, knowledge is his only weapon. The library he imagines is an endless treasure trove, but also a sword hanging over his head. He can understand the currents of h 230Reads5.9Score—14d adds
- 24 The Imperial Exams: I'm a Six-Year-Old Son of a Concubine, Writing Sage Wisdom in Vinegar 科举：我六岁庶子，蘸醋写圣贤 [Child prodigy + high IQ + decisive and ruthless + pure wish fulfillment + cold persona] After transmigrating, six-year-old Fan Yu is a burden of a child, but in his previous life he was a doctoral advisor in modern literature. He and his birth mother live at the mercy of the minor official Wei family, enduring abuse and going hungry. To break out of this dead end, he takes a risk and barges into a banquet, setting off a commotion with one word: “Father!” When his stepfather accuses him of being 968Reads8.7Score12014d adds
- 25 Transmigrating to a Farming Family to Take the Imperial Exams, I Gradually Ascend to Heaven 穿越农门考科举，我逐步登天 [The animated dramas From Farm Boy to General Who Pins Down the Xiongnu, The Imperial Examinations of a Farm Boy, and Sixfold Top Honors are now available. Give them a try!] [The early part of this book focuses on the imperial examinations, the middle on reclaiming lost territory, and the later part on expanding overseas.] In his previous life, Lin Yun died suddenly from overwork. He never expected to be reborn into a poor farming family in the Great Jing Dynasty. From being mocked by his aunt f 35.5kReads8.4Score2.8k14d adds
- 26 Chasing the Dream of the Pastoral Life in Muye 逐鹿牧野之梦回田舍郎 After breaking up with his girlfriend, Chen Xiaoye impulsively sets off alone on an interstellar trip. He accidentally enters a time-space wormhole and transmigrates to an ancient village. Holy crap! I've transmigrated! Looking at this poor household, Chen Xiaoye lets out a desperate cry, but all he gets in response is a string of babyish wails. “Ah... waah...” Damn it, I'm a baby! Even if I have to start from scratch, did I really have to start this young? No System, no pocket dimension, no gol 16Reads—Score—14d adds
- 27 The Greatest Chief Councilor in History: At Eighteen, I Start My Own Family Line 史上最强首辅，十八岁单开族谱 Qin Feng was reborn. In his previous life, he was the head of the Qin clan, one of the four great families of Lancang Prefecture. At fifteen, when his family faced a crisis, he overcame all opposition and took the position of clan head. But his brothers schemed against him, and his wife betrayed him. Qin Feng died with grievances in his heart at the hands of those closest to him. When he came to again, he had become the twelve-year-old young clan chief of Qin Family Village. The land is poor and 12Reads—Score—14d adds
- 28 The Imperial Exams: I Grinded My Proficiency to Become a Sixfold Laureate 科举：我肝熟练度六元及第 Su Chen transmigrated as the useless youngest son of a family of imperial exam laureates. Three generations of his family had been framed, cutting off their path to the exams, and he had even been kicked in the head by a donkey, leaving him unable to remember even the Three Character Classic! It wasn’t until he activated the [Top Scholar Proficiency Panel] that he discovered the secret: the imperial exams could be played like this! The Four Books and Five Classics are too long to memorize? No pr 3kReads8.1Score36014d adds
- 29 Transmigrated as a Farmer's Son, I Top the Exams and Become Emperor 穿越成农家子六元及第当皇帝 The protagonist, Yang Xuanche, transmigrates to a parallel world and an ancient dynasty that never existed in history. Born into a poor farming family, he relies on his modern knowledge to rise step by step. He sweeps all six imperial examinations, earns a noble title, and becomes a chancellor. He then uses his modern knowledge to improve people’s lives and vigorously develop the country’s industry and military, making it ever more prosperous. Eventually, he discovers that he is the emperor’s le 15Reads—Score—14d adds
- 30 Rising from Poverty: From the Imperial Exams to the Officialdom 寒门崛起，从科举入仕开始 (The rating just came out, so it's normal for it to be a little low. Don't worry, enjoy!) [Farming + Imperial Examinations + Alternate History + Ancient Setting] After an accident, Wang Bo, a farmer's son in ancient times, absorbed the memories of his previous life. The good news: His mind held thousands of books from the twenty-first century, and he had a photographic memory. The bad news: His family was so poor they lived on bran, and they still had to scrape together every last bit to fund hi 2kReads8.5Score18014d adds
- 31 My Imperial Exams Went Poorly, and Grandma Blames the Family Grave 科举不顺，我奶说是祖坟出了问题 Chen Bufan repeated his senior year three times, winning the provincial top-scorer title for his alma mater each time and making himself a tidy three million yuan in the process. He was one tough guy. But fate had other plans. A sudden accident, and that was the end of him! When he opened his eyes again, he had become Yaozu, a young man in a poor, remote village in the Great Xia Dynasty. The place was so wretched it made him want to stay up all night writing "A Humble Thatched Cottage". Even bei 42.7kReads7.3Score6.3k14d adds
- 32 An Economics PhD Takes the Imperial Exam, Making the Young Masters Cry from the Start 经济博士考科举，开局卷哭众少爷 Wang Jingchen, an economics PhD, wakes up in ancient times as the youngest son of a tenant farming family of displaced people. His parents rent land from a local gentry family and run a small sundries stall on the side. Making a living is hard, yet the whole family supports his education. His classmates are all from wealthy families, and a local gentryman's son sneers at him: “A displaced tenant farmer's son thinks he deserves to take the imperial exams?” Wang Jingchen smiles calmly. “Just watch 1.7kReads7.7Score18314d adds
- 33 I Couldn't Bear to See My Parents Taken Advantage Of, So I Became the Top Scholar 心疼爹娘太老实，科举考个状元郎 Male lead: Shen Qingshi The male lead has no System or pocket dimension, but comes with PUA skills. Even the most arrogant can be turned into a lackey. In his previous life, Shen Qingshi had just achieved financial freedom when his soul transmigrated into the body of a peasant boy in ancient times. His grandparents doted on no one, his parents were both doormats, and his third uncle was a leech who couldn't even pass the examination to become a scholar. Fine, whoever wants to be a doormat can be 1.7kReads7.6Score15014d adds
- 34 A Commoner Boy: Disciple of the Son of Heaven 布衣少年：天子门生 The novel finally received its rating on July 5. The rating has just opened, so it will rise later. [Young political intrigue | Redemption for all | Reform for the people | Women's awakening | Passionate ensemble cast | Imperial examinations | Xu Zhiyan] The Great Jing court was rigidly stratified. For a hundred years, no commoner from a humble family had risen to the top overnight and caught the emperor's attention. Xu Zhiyan was the first. He came from Xu Family Village in Huzhou, Zhejiang. 4kReads8.1Score29214d adds
- 35 Reborn as a Cannon-Fodder Man in a Broken Engagement Face-Slapping Story 穿成退婚打脸文里的炮灰男 [Imperial Exams, One-on-One Romance] [Not a Power Fantasy] (The rating just came out, so it might go up later?) At first, Lu Heming thought he had transmigrated, or perhaps there had been water in Granny Meng’s soup, allowing him to be reborn with memories of his past life. It wasn’t until he turned six that he realized he had transmigrated into a women’s novel about a broken engagement and face-slapping revenge. But he was neither the male lead who would join hands with the heroine and reach th 608Reads8.4Score—14d adds
- 36 My Family Has Been Butchers for Generations, and You Want Me to Take the Top Scholar Exam? 我家世代屠户，你偏要我考状元？ Chen Dao transmigrated! The good news: His family owned property and a shop, a pork stall at the vegetable market. The bad news: His father shoved a butcher's knife into his hands and said, “If you can't pass the exam and become a licentiate, you'll come back and take over the family business!” Hell mode from the start: The Analects in his left hand, a cleaver in his right. He recited classical phrases while cutting pork belly for customers. At the county exam, sons of generations of Hanlin scho 16Reads—Score—14d adds
- 37 The Imperial Exam: A Transmigrator's Road to Reversal 科举，穿越人的逆袭之路 [Everyday Farm Life | Exam-System Comeback | Court Intrigue | No System] After a car accident, a modern soul is reborn as Sun Dingyun, a two-year-old boy in an ordinary farming family in ancient times. The only grandson in the family, he is cherished by his parents and protected by his elders. His family is well-off, and there are no nasty relatives stirring up trouble. He has no System, no photographic memory, and no golden finger. He is just an ordinary person. With his whole family backing 3.5kReads7.8Score22514d adds
- 38 After I Transmigrate into a Book, I Kill the Male Lead of the Tragic Romance 穿书后，我把虐文男主嘎了 (Male supporting character + imperial exams + infrastructure building + no System + vicious female supporting character) Modern doctoral student Lin Qing stays up all night revising his thesis, only to open his eyes and find himself in ancient times as Lin Qingshan, a frail young man. His parents have just died when his uncle's family shows up with a slave trader, intent on selling his two younger sisters. The older one is to be sold as a maid, and the younger one as a child bride. Furious, Lin 39.4kReads8.4Score4k14d adds
- 39 The Imperial Exam Grind King: I Paved a Road to Success Through Hard Work 科举卷王，卷出一条青云路 [Complete] Tang Yin, a modern-day workaholic, transmigrates to the ancient Great Qian Dynasty and finds himself caught up in the tragic tale of three generations of one family taking the imperial exams together. The jeers around me are deafening, but I have no time to pay them any mind. I just keep my head down and study. County, prefectural, and academy exams: I conquer them one by one! Provincial, metropolitan, and palace exams: I break through every tier! I study my teacher bald, drive my riv 13.4kReads7.6Score1.1k14d adds
- 40 Reborn, I Use the System to Find My Family, Redeem Myself, and Become a Chancellor 重生后，我靠系统寻亲救赎成宰相 Shen Yan was reborn at the age of twelve, on the night his older sister went into a difficult labor. He activated the Family-Finding System, saved his sister, and received lavish rewards. He discovered that the relatives he had lost in his previous life were scattered across the land, all living tragic lives: A nephew whose identity had been switched, a sister humiliated in the palace, a younger sister reduced to a kept woman… Shen Yan rose through the ranks by passing the imperial examinations, 15Reads6.9Score—14d adds
- 41 Born into Ancient Times: A Farmer’s Son Takes the Imperial Exams 胎穿古代，农家子的科举之路 I wake up as Han Yinji, the fourth son of the Han family's third branch. His family is dirt poor, and he has a crowd of siblings. I thought I'd be stuck eking out a living in the fields, but unexpectedly, I came into this world with a modern knowledge database as my golden finger. I planned to keep my head down and survive, but my relatives were constantly up to something, and there was no peace in a poor household. So I had no choice but to breeze through the imperial examinations, improve farm 33Reads—Score—14d adds
- 42 Changing My Family's Status, I Aim to Top the Imperial Exams 改换门庭，我要科举高中 A programmer from the 21st century had a happy family and a fulfilling life, but then he transmigrated into the family of a feudal-era small landowner. Seeing the tenants’ lives, his simple-minded cousin, and his family desperately guarding their farmland, he declared, “I’ll take the imperial examinations! I’m going to climb into the clouds and see what’s up there!” 68Reads—Score—14d adds
- 43 I Transmigrated into an Imperial Exam Chief Examiner, and My Team Is Full of Geniuses! 穿越科举主考官，班底全是天才！ [Radically revamped imperial examinations + genius team + advanced knowledge + ensemble cast + nation-building + great-power rivalry + no System] A history professor transmigrates into the body of a down-and-out scholar during the Jiajing era of the Ming Dynasty. With his advanced knowledge and political acumen, he becomes a chief examiner and sets out to reform the Ming Dynasty. Looking at the students below, poring over the classics, Lin Mo sighs. “Everyone’s working themselves to death! And i 2Reads6.4Score314d adds
- 44 I Just Passed the Top Scholar Exam, and the Nomads Surrounded the Capital 刚考上状元，胡人就包围了京城 [Farmer's Son] [Daily Life] [Following the Army] [Not Wish Fulfillment] [Studying for the Top Scholar's Exam] [Grindset King] [Making His Dad Work Hard] Wang Tiedan swears he really never meant to rebel. All he wanted was to pass the imperial examinations and earn an official title. But he never imagined that after giving it everything he had and finally becoming the top scholar, the whole realm would descend into chaos. The northern barbarians are besieging the city, and refugees are flooding a 872Reads—Score4814d adds
- 45 The Imperial Exam Life of a Poor Military Household’s Son 寒门军户之子的科举日常 [Imperial Exams + Everyday Life + Alternate World + Farming + Cozy + No Romance] The Wang military household has served in the army for generations, and every child is strong and healthy, rarely falling ill from a young age. Only the youngest son, Wang An, is different: weak, adorable, fair-skinned, and delicate, as if a single punch could kill him. Ask him to work in the fields? He’d faint before long. Ask him to help grind beans? He’s too small to manage it. His mother reluctantly chooses a pa 2.6kReads8.8Score35014d adds
- 46 Reborn as Cannon Fodder in a Farming Family? A Science Prodigy Crushes the Imperial Exams 穿成农家炮灰？理科状元卷穿科举 After pulling an all-nighter on his research, He Cheng'an, a top science student, dies suddenly and wakes up in a novel as a doomed cannon-fodder character, and an inferior foil to the protagonist, no less? He calmly spreads out the exam paper. Then I'll outwork you all until you question your lives! Others study hard for ten years; he memorizes all the primers in a day and passes the entry-level scholar exam at eight. Others tear their hair out over eight-legged essays; he writes like a god, so 7Reads6.9Score—14d adds
- 47 From the Start, I Was a Lowly Illegitimate Son, but the Imperial Exams Carried Me to Success 开局低贱庶子，我靠科举步步青云 Transmigration, imperial examinations, illegitimate son, political intrigue, court politics, play the pig to eat the tiger, male-oriented, historical, one female lead When Lin Yan transmigrated, he became an inconspicuous illegitimate son of the Lin family. He harbored no deep-seated hatred and had never endured relentless bullying. All he knew was how to keep his talents hidden, guard his heart, and live quietly. While others studied hard for the imperial examinations, he already had a firm gr 20.4kReads6.7Score1.7k14d adds
- 48 Awakening the Learning System at Three: Study, Take the Imperial Exams, and Become an Official 三岁觉醒学习系统，读书科举做官 [Imperial exams + study System + farm boy + one heroine] (The ratings have only just come in, and the book is still growing. Don’t let them fool you! It’s good, really good, really, really good.) Wang Yuan had just passed the entrance exam for a master’s program at a top university, but before he could bask in the admiration of his whole village, an accident sent him into the womb of a peasant family in ancient times. Fortunately, an earlier transmigrator had established a new dynasty and encour 4.4kReads7.5Score32714d adds
- 49 The Concubine's Son Rises: From the Cold Courtyard to the Chancellor's Seat 庶子青云：从冷院到宰执 When he woke up, modern university lecturer Gu Yanzhou had become the least favored eight-year-old illegitimate son in the Marquis Dingyuan household. His birth mother had died young, his father ignored him, his stepmother was cold, and his siblings bullied him. His former self had even been pushed into a pond and “accidentally” drowned. In his previous life, he led graduate students through academic research. In this life, he’ll make his mark in the imperial examinations of the fictional Shengj 763Reads7.7Score8914d adds
- 50 Top Scholar: I Blundered Into the Imperial Court, and Now I Rule the Realm 状元我误闯天家，少年郎权倾朝野 [Transmigration + Imperial Examinations + Officialdom + Political Scheming + No Romance + Clever Wish Fulfillment] After dying suddenly, economics master Qi Yu becomes the emperor of the Great Yong dynasty’s young nephew, who had been lost among the common folk and raised by a farming family surnamed Li. His adoptive grandmother has no idea that his late father was the emperor’s own elder brother. She plays favorites to an absurd degree, forcing the six-year-old boy and his widowed mother to sup 8kReads8.4Score89414d adds
