I Just Want to Keep a Low Profile and Enjoy Retirement, but You Keep Forcing Me to Top the Imperial Exams

[Imperial Exams] [Meme-Worthy Humor] [Farming] [Top of Five Exams in a Row]

Though my name is Lin Xian, I can't sit still. I'm a workaholic through and through.

After transmigrating into the body of an elderly man with poor academic skills, I planned to try a different way of life. But just as I was about to lie flat, I was oppressed at every turn. I sighed and was forced back into the grind!

You think my education is lacking? I'll ace the exams instead, blazing through the scholar, provincial graduate, and jinshi ranks right on schedule!

A beauty thinks I'm too old? Every time my scholarship advances a level, I get five years younger! From a gray-haired old man, I turn back into a young man with muscles!

Corrupt officials block my way? I can't be bothered with them. I quietly work my way up from a low-ranking seventh-grade post to become the Duke of Wenqu, and all those snobbish officials scramble to curry favor and beg for mercy!

The old guard thinks my self-created