Novels like The Happy Life of the Number One Scholar
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- 1 The Soldier's March East 兵痞向东 In his previous life, special forces king He Xiangdong was killed fighting criminals. When he opened his eyes again, he had been transported to a parallel world in 1978. Here, the three great powers of Xia, Qiu, and Dong battled for global dominance, while war clouds gathered along the southwestern border. All-out war was only six months away. Yet the 215th Division, where he was stationed, was still working the fields on a farm. What he found even harder to accept was this: a twelve-man infantr 620Reads6.8Score10914d adds
- 2 My Days of Waiting in Line for an Official Post in Great Song 我在大宋排队等官的日子 Huang Mo, 23, is a senior history major. After grinding through the final level of the game "Eternal Famous Ministers", he transmigrates. He becomes a poor scholar in the Northern Song Dynasty who can't even afford rent. The good news is that the game System he knows so well has come along with him. The imperial examinations, official evaluations, merit points, and faction influence are all displayed for him. The bad news is that the game is set to hell difficulty from the start: you have to tak 5Reads—Score12114d adds
- 3 A Country Gentleman in the Late Ming 明末乡绅 A young man transmigrates to Huai'an Prefecture in Jiangnan, during the mid-to-late Wanli era, and starts living the life of a wealthy Jiangnan clan. With the peasant rebel Zhang Xianzhong and the Jurchen cavalry ravaging the land, he decides to sell firearms and provisions to Liaodong. The Ming dynasty has none? No problem, he’ll head to the South Seas. What, there are Spaniards and Portuguese there? Everyone should get along and do business. Peace and harmony are the way to go. They w 368Reads—Score—14d adds
- 4 The Powerful Chancellor: From Humble Adopted Son to Ruler of the Realm 权相：从卑微养子，到权倾天下 Meng Wuji, a business tycoon who had just weathered the hardships of starting a company, unexpectedly transmigrates to an alternate dynasty and becomes an adopted son of a powerful family whose future is far from secure. Survival, duty, family, friendship, the nation and the realm... After cutting through layer upon layer of mystery, he discovers that he can only march toward a fated showdown. When two rivals meet on a narrow road, neither can escape. If the emperor must be replaced, so be it! 52Reads—Score—14d adds
- 5 I Transmigrated to the Han Dynasty and Made a Fortune with My Gambling Tricks! 穿越大汉，我靠千术赢麻了！ [No System + Alternate History + Supreme Gambling Skills + Scheming + Overwhelming Firepower] Chen Qian transmigrates to the Han Dynasty as a down-and-out young master. Keeping up the playboy facade, he quietly builds his strength with his unparalleled gambling skills. While secretly investigating the mastermind behind the Chen family’s downfall, he becomes entangled in a shocking scheme. An ordinary man may be blameless, but possessing a treasure invites disaster. But Chen Qian doesn’t just pos 2.4kReads8.0Score17014d adds
- 6 Transmigrated to the ’70s, My Wife Is the Landlord’s Darling Daughter 穿越七零，我老婆是地主家娇小姐 [Transmigration] [Pocket Dimension] [Built-in Skills] [Family Life] [Building a Fortune] Zhou Jiacheng was an antique enthusiast, especially fond of ancient jade. But just after buying a jade gourd pendant, he was laid off by his company and received compensation worth N+1 months of salary, totaling over a million yuan. His joy turned to disaster when he got drunk and a falling liquor bottle struck him on the head, awakening the space inside the jade gourd. Thinking the apocalypse might be comin 7.4kReads8.3Score59914d adds
- 7 Reborn in Great Ming: Mastering Finance 重生大明玩金融 A top Wall Street hedge fund trader dies suddenly at his desk. When he opens his eyes again, he has become the disowned son of a bankrupt merchant in the twentieth year of the Wanli era, beaten and left for dead. There are no price limits or regulatory agencies in this savage age where silver is hard currency. He turns the quantitative thinking from his previous life into an invisible blade and launches a four-hundred-year-distant assault with an overwhelming technological advantage. 303Reads6.7Score10214d adds
- 8 The Disgraced Concubine-Born Son Takes the Hanlin Exam, and the Duke's Estate Is Reduced to Ruins 除谱庶子考翰林，国公府夷废墟 [Transmigration] + [imperial examinations] + [wits and strategy] + [never forgiving] + [no redemption] + [farming] + [court intrigue] Su Lingyun is reborn in the body of a concubine-born son in a duke’s mansion. With his father’s indifference, his grandmother’s neglect, his stepmother’s hatred, and his legitimate elder brother’s beatings, he has no choice but to do everything he can to escape. He studies hard and takes the imperial examinations, facing endless obstacles and attacks from the duke 408Reads8.4Score—14d adds
- 9 I'm a Qing Dynasty Tycoon 我在大清当财阀 Shen Yi, an elite investment banker, opens his eyes to find he has become Yin Qi, the Kangxi Emperor's fifth son! Faced with the bloody struggle among the nine princes for the throne, he grins. “Fight for the throne? What a headache! Wouldn't it be better to become a financial magnate in the Qing Dynasty?” With The Maritime Power Strategy in one hand, he opens ports and promotes trade. With the Great Qing Huitong Bank in the other, he turns finance into a game. His rouge shop uses limited-editio 188Reads—Score10114d adds
- 10 A Scholar Turns Soldier: Right or Wrong, You’ll Have to Listen 秀才变成兵，有理没理你都得听 [No System + Transmigration + Alternate Setting + Farming + Face-Slapping + Devoted Husband and Father + Everyday Life + Slow Pace] A battle-hardened soldier transmigrates into the body of a spineless scholar. After the original owner passed the county-level imperial examination, he divorced his virtuous wife and insisted on clinging to the village beauty, a two-faced green tea. Who could have guessed that he would drink himself to death and become a laughingstock throughout the village? Just as 35.8kReads8.4Score3.5k14d adds
- 11 Aren’t You an Idiot? How Did You Become the Top Graduate? 你不是傻瓜吗？怎么状元及第了！ [Imperial Examinations] + [Alternate History] + [Political Intrigue] + [Careful Planning] Li Yu was a well-known history streamer in the twenty-first century. His life had been full of misfortune. By a strange twist of fate, he transmigrated into the body of a foolish seven-year-old boy in an ancient world. What kind of family is this? His third uncle spent the family fortune taking the imperial exams, yet couldn't even pass the lowest-level test. The family is desperately poor, and even an egg —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 12 Reborn at Yashan: I Lead the Great Song Dynasty to Glory 崖山新生：朕带大宋崛起 A modern engineer transmigrates into Zhao Bing, the last emperor of the Southern Song. The moment he opens his eyes, the Battle of Yamen is underway, and Chancellor Lu Xiufu is holding him, ready to jump into the sea. He grabs the chancellor by the collar. “Don't jump! There's hope as long as we survive!” Starting from a deserted island, he uses modern knowledge to crush the opposition with cannons, flintlock guns, cement, and more. He builds cities, trains a new army, conquers Japan, and atta 2.6kReads6.9Score26314d adds
- 13 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
- 14 The Delicate Young Wife Is Actually from a Future Special Forces Unit 小娇娘竟来自未来特种部队 This is the story of a modern female special forces soldier who uses her overwhelming advantage on an ancient battlefield of cold weapons. It is also a story about using a modern mindset to compete for favor in the imperial court, and, above all, about someone who, after being abandoned by the entire world, relies on no one and climbs step by step to the top. 14.4kReads8.9Score1.7k14d adds
- 15 I Had to Live Off My Wife to Study for the Imperial Exams 为了读书科举，我被迫吃上了软饭 Seventy years after the founding of the Great Shun dynasty, everyone calls it a golden age, yet poor students still struggle to get an education. Zhang Xing transmigrates to Great Shun. His elder brother has married and started a family, and there is no money left to support Zhang Xing’s studies. Desperate to study and sit the imperial exams, Zhang Xing is forced to marry a wealthy woman. Two wealthy wives, in fact!! [Imperial exams as the main plot + Daily life + Legally marrying two wives to c 42.8kReads7.5Score3.2k14d adds
- 16 Reborn in the Great Ming: Hongwu's First Uncle by Marriage 魂穿大明：洪武第一国舅爷 [Full of Gags] [Transmigration] [Farming] Ma Xiuying: Our Ma family has a long tradition of poetry and scholarship! Emperor Zhu: Ah! Exactly, exactly! Ma Xiuying: My younger brother is a once-in-a-generation genius! Emperor Zhu: Ah! Exactly, exactly! (Go on, keep bragging. He's a coward.) Ma Xiuying: Zhu Chongba, we've been married for over twenty years. You think I can't tell you don't believe me? Zhu Chongba: (っ °Д °;)っ My dear, I don't. Just hear me out. Ma Chaoqun, surrounded by women on bot 26.3kReads6.8Score1.5k14d adds
- 17 Transmigrated to Ancient Times: From the Start, My Family Split Up, but I Have a Pocket Dimension 穿古代，开局分家，我有空间怕啥 [Farming + famine years + wish fulfillment + storage space + comedy + punishing scumbags + multiple female leads] Synopsis: Yang Qichun rode the wave of the times to amass countless assets, regularly topping the national rich list. But he had no wife or children and lived alone. Sick of the flashy city life, he spent a fortune building a sprawling farm of several thousand mu and settled down to enjoy his retirement. He never expected to wake up and transmigrate to ancient times, into the body of 15kReads7.6Score1.4k14d adds
- 18 The Rogue Scholar and the Farmer's Old Man 痞子秀才田家翁 A border defense special forces officer was killed by shellfire during a counter-narcotics operation. He was reborn in a remote mountain village in the fictional Great Qian dynasty, in an alternate history, into a family with generations of scholarly tradition. Starting out as a poor young hunter, he gradually worked his way up, passed the county-level scholar exam, and eventually became the head of a household. Settling in one corner of the world, he lived a rich and colorful rural life. 1.6kReads8.5Score11614d adds
- 19 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
- 20 The Great Song’s First Minister: My Years as an Official in the Northern Song 大宋第一臣：我在北宋当官那些年 Shen Xi was the top speechwriter at the provincial government office. He worked through the night writing reports, died suddenly, and woke up as a county commandant in the Northern Song’s Yuanyou era. No System, no golden finger, and no powerful patrons at court: he was a transmigrant with none of the usual advantages. His superiors tried to dump their problems on him, while his colleagues waited for him to make a fool of himself. Shen Xi sighed. “Fine. When in Rome, do as the Romans do. I’ll pl 86Reads—Score414d adds
- 21 Rising from Poverty, Starting with Education 寒门崛起，从求学开始 [Transmigration] + [Imperial Exams] + [Comedy] + [Play the Pig to Eat the Tiger] Jian Yi transmigrates to ancient times into a poor family. He thinks that his modern knowledge will let him thrive, but from the start he gets caught sneaking into a class and then has to split from his family. After numerous twists and turns, he begins his studies. The road is full of hardship as he takes the imperial exams and becomes an official, teases his charming wife, battles corrupt ministers, and suppresses —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 22 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
- 23 I Died Childless in My Last Life, but Now I’m Reborn to a House Full of Descendants 上辈子绝后，重生我儿孙满堂 The rating just came in. It'll go up later. The male lead, Chen Fan, is an 80-year-old bachelor. After meeting a woman who swindled him out of his bride price, he falls and is reborn in 1968, just before his uncle frames his family and their property is confiscated. Using the advantages of being reborn, he brings down his uncle's family, then heads to the countryside and finds the twin sisters who saved him in his previous life. 6.3kReads7.9Score68314d adds
- 24 The Premature Hunter’s Son: From Bow on His Back to an Official’s Scepter at Court 早产猎户子从背弓赶山到朝堂执笏 The Shen family of Shenjia’ao is famous for its hunters. The old men can still shoulder their rifles, the strong young men can chase down mountain deer, and even the little ones can snare wild rabbits. They’re like a pack of leopards settled in the mountains! Shen Yan, however, is the exception. Born premature and frail, he has to hide in his mother’s arms when the wind picks up. He’s panting after three steps, and standing between his older brothers and their wives, he looks like a soft-feather 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 25 Reviving the Farming Village 农门复兴 A high-ranking official from a farming family, wielding power over the court, with a cherished wife at home who grows crops and raises chickens. Lin Jingchuan, eldest legitimate son of the Grand Commandant’s household and young lord of the Tiger Warriors of Western Qi’s frontier. After being ambushed and falling off a cliff, he transmigrated into the body of Li Jinye, eldest son of the third branch of the Li family. Little did he know that Li Jinye had been in a vegetative state, completely para —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 26 A Poor Scholar's Noble Son-in-Law: From the Start, I Find the Duke's Daughter 寒门贵婿：开局捡到国公府千金 A modern professor transmigrates into the body of a young farm boy preparing for the imperial exams. On the road to the examinations, he casually saves someone, only for the spoiled young lady of a Duke’s household to latch on to him! Everyone in the capital knows Lu Qingyan as a “phoenix man” who climbed the social ladder by relying on women. He only smiles silently, then is personally named the top candidate in the palace examination by the emperor. His spoiled wife is domineering? He dotes on 399Reads7.6Score10214d adds
- 27 Reborn in Great Ming: With a Library at My Fingertips, the Imperial Exams Are Mine 重生大明：图书馆在手，科举我有 With a library in my head, how could I fail the imperial examinations? Lin Yan, a man from the 21st century, transmigrates and is reborn as a poor scholar during the Hongzhi era of the Ming dynasty. A modern library that appears in his mind becomes his greatest asset as he makes his way in the Ming Empire. 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 28 The Poor Call Me Master, While the Righteous Condemn My Heresy 寒门尊我为师，清流怒斥邪说误人 [Transmigration + Imperial Exams + Business + Court Intrigue + Daily Life + Rise from Humble Beginnings] Transmigrating is hell from the start: my mother died young, my father ran off, our family property was seized, and my sick grandmother and I were driven into a shack by our wicked relatives. How could I put up with that?! From the start, I split from the family, found powerful allies, and offered business plans that made us a fortune. I used a modern perspective to interpret the classics, an —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 29 Transmigrated as the Fake Young Master in an Imperial Exam Novel 穿成科举文里的假少爷 [Imperial examinations + fake and real young masters + alternate dynasty + transmigrate + transmigrate into a book + everyday life] [Male protagonist's perspective, no CP, no female lead, and the true heiress has little page time] Yuan Kunyu transmigrated after a celebration banquet for getting into a 985 university's gifted youth program. The good news: he had become a young master from a prestigious family. The not-so-bad news: he was the fake one. So, at the age of ten, Yuan Kunyu returned to 54Reads—Score—14d adds
- 30 A Proper Exam Candidate, and You Want Me to Have More Children, More Blessings? 正经科举人，你让我多子多福？ Imperial exams + System + Brother Cao + Comedy + Court politics + Struggle for supremacy Gu Zhengchuan had it rough. He was a delivery driver who got hit while rushing to finish his orders, and transmigrated to ancient times. He soon discovered that this was a society that valued civil officials far more than military ones, and the imperial exams were the only way for an ordinary person to rise in the world. But how was a vocational-school graduate like him supposed to pass the imperial exams? T 60Reads—Score—14d adds
- 31 Transmigrated into the Foil Character in an Imperial Exam Novel 穿成科举文里的对照组 Yu Wenyan, a Shandong native who had worked hard to become a civil servant, transmigrates into a book. In the story, he’s a wasteful, gambling, wine-loving underachiever who resents his younger brother for being good at school and spends every day trying to sabotage his studies and civil service exam prospects. The transmigrated Yu Wenyan makes one thing clear: not studying is out of the question, and not taking the civil service exam is out of the question too. Playing dirty is out of the quest 25Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 32 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
- 33 Taking My Father’s Place in the Imperial Exams, Starting at Six 替父科举！从六岁开始 No corvee labor, no land tax. Crossing the class divide feels amazing! No wonder my father was willing to do anything to pass the imperial exams! The exams broke the aristocratic clans' monopoly on official careers under the Nine-Rank System, which had been in place since the Wei and Jin dynasties. With examinations at their core, they gave ordinary scholars a way to rise above their station. The appeal of the exams went straight to the heart of people's everyday concerns. Once scholars passed t 700Reads7.3Score10014d adds
- 34 Even Bad Bamboo Can Grow Good Shoots, An Ge Got into High School! 歹竹出好笋，安哥高中了！ [Imperial examinations + family life + bringing glory to the family + single heroine, appearing later] In the modern world, Li Xing'an was just a struggling comic artist who had never achieved much. He worked himself to death from exhaustion. When he opened his eyes again, he found himself reborn as a poor boy in a remote backwater. The ramshackle mud-brick house leaked whenever it rained. His unreliable father was a useless layabout, and his mother was so furious she stood with her hands on her 2kReads7.3Score13414d adds
- 35 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
- 36 An Old Farmer's Son Fights His Way to the Top 一个农家子的逆袭之路 [No System + farming + imperial examinations + alternate history] Programmer Zhao Hongyi dies from overwork after yet another 996 shift and transmigrates to the Ming Dynasty, only to find himself the son of a farming family. In an age when “all pursuits are inferior to studying,” he has no choice but to embark on the path of the imperial examinations. He studies and makes money at the same time, determined to excel at both. Then he discovers that this world is not quite like the history he remem 39Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 37 The Exam-System Bargain Hunter Accidentally Wins the Whole Empire 科举捡漏王，一不小心捡了个天下 [Imperial Exam Fiction] [Alternate History] [One Heroine] [No Golden Finger] Xie Qi thought he had died, but one day he woke up to discover that he had transmigrated into the son of a poor farming family in an alternate dynasty. The only way to change his fate was to take the imperial exams! After finally passing the exams and becoming the top scholar, Xie Qi was badly set up by the emperor. He was sent straight to the most remote prefectural city. Since he was here, he might as well make the be 66Reads7.0Score—14d adds
- 38 The Ming Dynasty’s Literary Champion 大明文魁 In the third year of the Xuande reign, Lin Wenyuan, a top history student, unexpectedly transmigrated into the body of a poor scholar in Kunshan County, South Zhili, Ming China. When he woke, he found himself in a home stripped bare, with a frail body left behind by the original owner's high fever after being caught in the rain. In an era when the imperial examinations were the only path to success, he had neither an illustrious family nor exceptional talent. All he could rely on was knowledge f 136Reads—Score—14d adds
- 39 Transmigrate, Turn the Imperial Exams Around, and Raise a Wife 穿越，科举逆袭养媳妇 [One heroine + imperial examinations + transmigration + alternate history + devoted husband] Zhang Yue feels a sudden wave of dizziness. When he wakes up, he has become the illegitimate son of the Zhang family's second branch. Just thinking about being an illegitimate son gives him a headache, but then he sees his gentle, tender concubine mother and the First Madam, who has always looked after him, and feels like things might just work out after all... Life is hard. Yue sighs!!! 335Reads7.4Score—14d adds
- 40 A Farmer’s Son’s Road to the Imperial Exams 农家子的科举之路 After an earthquake, modern university student Chen Xiao transmigrated to the fictional Great Zhou dynasty and became the son of a poor farming family. His widowed mother lived with him, along with his virtuous wife, who was four months pregnant. Looking at the family’s bare cupboards, Chen Xiao decided to take up the previous owner’s ambition of passing the imperial examinations and lead his family toward a brighter future... 36Reads8.9Score—14d adds
- 41 Imperial Exam Comeback: From Farmer’s Son to First-Rank Grand Secretary 科举逆袭：从农家子到一品阁老 A modern young man transmigrates overnight and becomes a farm boy, descended from generations of farmers. Other people who transmigrate get a golden finger or a System. But when he takes a look at himself, he has nothing at all and is one of the lowest-ranking people of this era. He wants to invent things and change the age, but he's hopeless with his hands. He wants to master Neo-Confucianism and stand above the world, but, well, he knows nothing... Sigh, he'd better face reality. After thinkin 4.7kReads8.8Score35514d adds
- 42 The Humble Scholar-Poet 寒门小诗仙 [Lighthearted + Transmigration + Alternate History + Imperial Examinations + Martial Arts + Detective Work] What do you do when your wife goes missing from the start? Help! Urgent! Waiting for replies online. Chen Rong had spent half his life writing novels, but never imagined that the truck he’d used countless times to send his protagonists transmigrating would send him off too. Couldn’t you at least have given me a System? I don’t know how to do a damn thing… That familiar trope of starting ou 22Reads8.5Score—14d adds
- 43 Transmigrated to Ancient Times to Take the Imperial Exams in a Farming Novel 穿越古代在种田文里考科举 [Rags-to-Riches Reversal + Political Intrigue + No System] He wakes up to find himself the son of a dirt-poor farming family. His parents are counting on him to change their fate through study, while the whole village waits to see him make a fool of himself! Wen You'an says, “What’s there to panic about? A top student is a top student anywhere! A scientific approach to exam prep? Coming right up! Targeted poverty alleviation to improve the family’s lot? Absolutely!” From the county exam to the p 414Reads6.1Score—14d adds
- 44 After Years of Hard Study, I Rise Ninety Thousand Miles Into the Sky 寒窗苦读多年，扶摇直上九万里 [Male POV, born into a new life as a baby, farming, imperial examinations, court politics] When the second son of the Chen family died unexpectedly, he left behind an unborn child. Zhao, who had already given birth to three daughters in a row, hoped this time for a son. The day she gave birth, the baby arrived prematurely, and there were twins. The villagers all said the children wouldn't survive. They waited and waited, and the child grew up. They named him Dongsheng. Dongsheng went to school. 42.7kReads6.5Score3.4k14d adds
- 45 Reborn as a Treacherous Official in Great Ming 重生大明当奸臣 (Historical ancient setting + Ming Dynasty history + Political intrigue + No System + Officialdom + One heroine) I am no loyal minister, but a treacherous one. I only lay bricks for the Great Ming. A modern college student is unexpectedly reborn as Yan Shaoqing, grandson of Yan Song, Grand Secretary during the Jiajing reign of the Great Ming. From the undercurrents of political intrigue during the Jiajing reign, to tentative reforms under Longqing, and then the deepening reforms of the Wanli rei 4.4kReads8.5Score32114d adds
- 46 After My Engagement Was Broken, I Turned to the Imperial Exams and Became the Top Scholar 被退婚后，我转头科举当状元 [Transmigration + no System + imperial examinations + feel-good power fantasy] Ma Chengji, a top scorer in the national college entrance exam with a photographic memory, transmigrated into the body of an eight-year-old poor boy in the Great Qian Kingdom. He started off in dire straits: his family had nothing, they lived on bran and wild greens, and the villagers mocked and ridiculed him. Su Jiuyuan, the daughter of a powerful minister, came with her mother to break off their engagement. “People —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 47 My Whole Family Supports My Imperial Exams, and I Rise to Great Heights 全家供我科举，而后青云直上 One heroine + no System + lighthearted pacing A bird must flap its wings before it can soar; a person must study before they can get ahead. Huang Zhiwen unexpectedly gets another chance at life, bringing the memories of his previous life with him as he slowly adapts to this new world. Here, he finds new people to care about and a new family. The Huang family is warm and close-knit, and they will do everything they can to support Huang Zhiwen in the imperial examinations. That leaves all the pres 783Reads8.4Score—14d adds
- 48 A Farmer's Son's Road to the Imperial Exams, His Achievements Shining Across the Land 农家儿郎科举路，勋名耀山河！ [Imperial Examinations] [A Farmer’s Son Changes His Fate Through the Exams] Zhou Xu opens his eyes and finds himself in another era! Determined to make his mark in this new age, he looks down at his patched trousers and the endless fields stretching to the horizon. Zhou Xu decides he’d better study. Education can change your fate! His eldest aunt spits and says, “A country bumpkin thinks he can study?” Zhou Xu passes the county-level examination. His second aunt says enviously, “That’s as far as 28kReads8.5Score2.5k14d adds
- 49 The Road to the Imperial Examinations Begins as a Student 科举之路从童生开始 Lin Ying transmigrates. He had been researching the history of the imperial examination system at a research institute, but one careless moment sends him to ancient times, where he becomes the son of a farming family on his way to sit the exams. What else can he do? For the sake of a better life, he can only give it everything he’s got! On the long road to success in the imperial examinations, Lin Ying sets himself a small goal: first, pass the entry-level exam and become a student! 457Reads9.0Score—14d adds
- 50 The Imperial Examinations: Rising to the First Rank of Officialdom 科举之官居一品 Synopsis: A scholar in the morning, admitted to the imperial court by night. The protagonist begins as a young scholar from a farming family and rises step by step through the imperial examination system. In the end, he earns a place on the honors list, becomes a jinshi, and enters the ranks of officials. After becoming an official, he works his way up through the bureaucracy until he reaches the highest rank and governs the realm as chief minister, guiding Chinese civilization to become the mos 1.9kReads7.6Score10114d adds
