A Farmer's Son's Road to the Imperial Exams in Ming Hongwu's Reign

[Imperial examinations + transmigration + no System + one female lead]

An engineer unexpectedly transmigrates to the Hongwu era of the Great Ming dynasty, taking over the body of a farmer’s son from the Jiang family in Qingshui Village, De'an County, Jiujiang Prefecture. Looking at his family’s dilapidated thatched hut, bare of all but its four walls, Jiang Xiangwen quietly considers his options. In an age when “all pursuits are inferior; only study is noble,” how can he rely on books to change his fate and fulfill the grand ambition of “a peasant in the morning, received in the emperor’s hall by night” through the imperial examinations?