Ancestor Was an Executioner, I Rely on Imperial Exams to Become the Family's Backbone

In the Great Liang dynasty, the lowborn boy Xu Qingliu suffers discrimination due to his ancestor being an executioner. When he is pushed into a river by malicious neighbors and nearly drowns, he is unexpectedly reincarnated with the soul of a modern engineering and Chinese language double major. The seven-year-old, now with extraordinary intelligence, uses his wisdom to fend off clan elders' harassment and makes the neighbors who seized his ancestral land suffer the consequences without resorting to force, revealing his remarkable talent. Knowing that only the imperial exams can change his lowborn fate, Xu Qingliu humbly becomes a book boy for a prestigious family. While diligently studying the classics to build a solid foundation, he secretly applies his previous life's engineering knowledge to improve farm tools and solve practical problems, earning the reputation of a prodigy book boy across the countryside. On the path to the imperial exams, he overcomes identity discrimination, old enemies' schemes, and powerful officials' oppression. With his literary talent, policy essays, and practical strategies, he astonishes the examiners, breaks the iron rule that lowborns cannot pass the exams, and achieves the top three rankings. From a despised lowborn orphan to a newly minted jinshi, he writes the legend of a poor student defying fate!