My Whole Family Was Exiled, but I Turned My Fate Around at the Imperial Exams at Eight

A hundred years ago, he rose to become a close attendant to the emperor, but his hometown became part of another country. He wanted to take it back, but his own nation fell. He leapt from the city wall.

A hundred years later, he became an eight-year-old, frail boy in the Great Jing dynasty, with a chance to reclaim his homeland once more!

Go take the imperial examinations, young man!

But his pockets are empty, he coughs nonstop, and his maternal grandfather's entire family has been exiled. Then come the mockers, the debt collectors, the schemers, and those who make things difficult for him... Not to mention examiners who plot against him, a fire in the examination hall, and court conspiracies...

So what if he's sickly, weak, and poor? What is there to be afraid of?

Books hold countless landscapes and strategies! I can handle them all!

Watch as he takes the exams with wit, shoulders his burdens with courage, earns silver through clever schemes, brings down spoiled young masters, and foils conspiracies... He'll nurse his health and save his family at the same time, passing the examinations step by step until he becomes a Hanlin scholar and prime minister!

Then watch as he cuts off the noble clans' paths to power, topples the crown prince, crushes the emperor's ambitions, and joins forces with his brothers to claim the highest throne, ushering in a golden age and laying the foundations of a dynasty that will last ten thousand years!