The Empress Burned My Top Scholar Exam Paper. I Became an Immortal Emperor, and Now She Weeps with Regret

【Fantasy + building a faction + farming + dynastic conquest】 His father died on the battlefield fighting for Great Qian, but the county yamen embezzled the compensation money. His mother worked day and night to support his studies, but in the end, she couldn’t afford treatment and died of illness with regrets. Born into a poor family in Great Qian, Qin Yi worked hard from childhood, studying for over a decade in the hope of passing the imperial exams and governing the country for the people. On the day of the palace examination, his essay on statecraft shook the divine capital. Requiring officials and gentry to pay taxes, surveying and measuring farmland, cleaning up officialdom, restricting the great clans… Every proposal was a sound way to strengthen the country, but each one struck directly at the powerful families. To appease the great clans and preserve the so-called greater good, the empress personally altered his exam paper, accused him of treason, burned the top-scoring essay in public, and exiled him to the frontier! Watching the ten years of study his parents had given their lives to support go up in smoke, Qin Yi finally came to his senses. Great Qian was rotten to the core. It wasn’t worth saving! 【The Immortal Dynasty Development System has been activated!】 【You have received your starter reward: True Dragon Dao Body!】 “You burned my essay and framed me as a rebel?” “Fine!” “Then I’ll rebel for real!” Years later, the Immortal Dynasty arrives, and all the kingdoms bow. Qin Yi sits upon the ninth tier of the imperial palace, looking down at the empress whose kingdom has fallen. “What you burned back then wasn’t just an exam paper.” “It was Great Qian’s last shred of national fortune!”