Fan Jin Passes the Imperial Examination: I Become a Sage Through Reading

[Confucian Scholars and the Hundred Schools] + [Historical Transmigration] + [Childhood Sweethearts and Romance]

A scholar can settle the realm with a brush and bring order to the world from horseback. This is a world that belongs to scholars.

Reading the sages' classics grants one literary aura. Passing the imperial examinations earns an official rank and the fortune of literary distinction, awakening the scholar's spirit and giving birth to the powers of the literary Dao.

After transmigrating as Fan Jin, he finds himself destitute, too weak to even wring a chicken's neck. When the local bully Ximen Qing harasses his betrothed, should he endure the humiliation or let the matter rest?

Fan Jin: "A true man knows what he should and should not do!"

"If Ximen Qing dares bully the woman promised to me, I'll kill him!"

He beats Ximen Qing to a pulp and wins Hu Xiaoyun's heart.

He presents her with a poem, "Longing for You," and once it is written, it spreads across the land.

This is the story of a penniless scholar who earns distinction step by step and proves himself a Sage.

The Nine Human Kingdoms are rife with hidden currents. Human traitors collude with the Witches and Demons, defying the proper order and seeking to overthrow the golden age of humanity.

A thousand years passed after King Wen of Zhou attained Sainthood before Confucius finally became a Sage. The various schools of thought produced Semi-Sages and Secondary Sages, but then another thousand years went by without a new Sage proving the Dao!

How perilous, how strange!

Fan Jin rises amid the chaos. Dragons dance in the calligraphy beneath his brush; he revives the Tang poems, brings Song lyrics to their height, and sings the Yuan operas with feeling. He leads humanity back to cultural confidence and proves himself a Confucian Sage!