Take the Imperial Exam in a Chaotic Era? I Choose to Earn a Marquisate Through Military Merit!

Disasters and calamities ravage the Great Yun Dynasty. Japanese pirates run rampant, and the realm is descending into chaos.

The Ling family is so poor they're nearly out of food, and his little sister can't even get a full meal.

Yet his father would rather scrimp and save and pile up debts than stop supporting Ling Feng's studies and imperial examinations.

"Son, as long as you pass the county-level imperial exam, our family will finally have a chance to get ahead!"

But Ling Feng knows the world has changed!

With an age of chaos on the way, even if he passes the exam, how could he protect his family?

If that's the case, then he'll take another path!

While others study by lamplight, striving for academic honors, he will abandon the pen and take up arms, earning promotions through military service and carving out a road to wealth for himself and his family with the blade in his hand!

From a poor scholar to a commander of countless troops, ennobled as a marquis and made a general!

Years later, his father stares at Ling Feng, returned home in glory, completely dumbfounded.

"I told you to pass the county-level exam. How did you end up becoming a marquis?!"