After My Mother Remarried, My Stepfather Made Me Emperor

[No heroine + transmigration to an alternate world + farming + family favorite + imperial examinations + emperor + struggle for supremacy] Xie Ning, a modern medical PhD, transmigrates into the only son of a successful candidate in the imperial examinations in the Great Yu Dynasty. His father dies before he can even lay eyes on him, leaving his mother a widow. His paternal uncles bully them and seize the family estate. Zhou Yi, who nearly ends up begging on the streets, follows his mother into her new marriage. He expects his stepfather’s family, who make their living slaughtering pigs, to be a frightening bunch. But to his surprise, his grandmother is fiery, his grandfather is domineering, and his uncles protect him with their lives. Zhou Yi becomes the apple of the whole family’s eye. To give his family a better life, Zhou Yi works himself to the bone. Before he knows it, he becomes the chief grand secretary, and then, before he knows it, an emperor for the ages.