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The Imperial Examination Journey of a Poor Butcher's Son

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Chen Erniu, the son of a poor butcher, was ridiculed by villagers for a decade for "a butcher's descendant not being worthy of reading", yet he secretly studied old books. On the county exam day, a powerful official's son bribed the examiner to replace his paper. In despair, his "Essay on People's Livelihood from a Pork Shop"—written on the back of old paper and vividly describing the joys and sorrows of street vendors—was accidentally noticed by an incognito imperial censor, who exclaimed: "This is the true hearted talent the exam needs!" Since then, labeled a "butcher scholar", he cracked the "poetry traps" and "policy frame-ups" set by the powerful, and fell in love with Su Wantang, the minister's daughter who admired his purity. Between the struggles of a poor man's counterattack and the forbidden love across classes, this "butcher boy" is determined to carve an ordinary person's path to glory in the exam arena.

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