While Others Took the Imperial Exams, I Became a Marquis by Sponsoring the Top Scholar

"Ten years of bitter study in a cold room? Not a chance. The imperial exams are a business, and I'm the only one running the table."

In his previous life, Lin Zhao was a top-tier headhunter. After transmigrating to the Great Zhou, he discovered that though his scholarship was rock-bottom, he had gained the "Talent Scout System," which let him see anyone's potential in the imperial exams. While everyone else was chewing on cold buns and studying in their exam cells, Lin Zhao was already on the streets making wild venture-capital investments and flipping his picks.

A butcher's assistant has an astonishing gift for policy essays? Invest in him! A stuttering boy has a hidden talent for remembering everything he sees? Sign him immediately! In Lin Zhao's eyes, those poor scholars looked down on by the great clans are all skyrocketing blue-chip stocks, destined to wield power at court!

The provincial exams are rife with cheating, and the great clans are secretly scheming to suppress him? Lin Zhao only sneers. He activates his System panel to make rough predictions, plans ahead for the exam topics, and crushes the scions of the great clans with sheer superiority!

As the "products" under his wing transform one by one into top scorers, second-place finishers, and third-place finishers, he not only earns a fortune in official-fortune points, but also rises swiftly to the highest ranks, until the emperor personally proclaims him the greatest talent scout under Heaven!

"I, Lin Zhao, don't take the imperial exams, but who in the Great Zhou court would dare not call me their mentor?"