A Farmer’s Son’s Journey Through the Imperial Examinations

Synopsis: Mei Heshi transmigrates into a novel about the imperial examinations, becoming a cannon-fodder character doomed to be framed for cheating by the reborn male lead and suffer the ruin of his entire family. The day he enters the novel is the day of the County Examination. The male lead has already slipped cheat sheets into Mei Heshi’s examination basket. Mei Heshi has no intention of meeting the same fate. He simply slips the cheat sheets back into the other man’s basket. After the County Examination, Mei Heshi returns home and lies awake all night in a yellow-mud house where drafts seep through every wall. The next morning, clutching his family’s only remaining string of copper cash, he sets off for an academy in the county town. A farmer’s son in the morning; by evening, standing in the Son of Heaven’s court. Bring peace to the realm. Usher in an age of prosperity. Rise through the ranks to the highest office a subject can hold! — Description from novelcodex.orgFull novel: A Farmer’s Son’s Journey Through the Imperial Examinations — read the rest free on N​o⁠v​e⁠l​C⁠o​d⁠e​x⁠.​o⁠r​g⁠