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Who Needs Imperial Exams After Time Travel?

share time: 2026-02-05 02:32:41

Lin Xiaoman, a modern corporate slave, travels back to ancient China as a poor girl while staying up late revising a proposal. She’s about to slack off using her “time traveler advantage” when a “slacking = erasure” system forces her to face the imperial exam. Worse still, the chief examiner of the provincial exam is Gu Zhao—her secret crush from three years ago—who doesn’t recognize her but praises her essay (written with modern SWOT analysis) as a “genius work” in public. To survive, Lin has to start a “slacker-style exam prep”: exchanging milk tea recipes for study materials, turning “slacking tips” into model essays, and accidentally making her “anti-involution manifesto” go viral in the capital. But as she gets closer to the exam, she realizes Gu Zhao is linked to her time travel, and the system hides a secret about “choice”…

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