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The 12-Year-Old Top Scholar

share time: 2026-01-17 00:33:36

Lin Chuan, a modern physics PhD, accidentally travels back in time while staying up late writing his thesis, becoming a ten-year-old neglected concubine's son in the ancient Lin family. His father died early, his mother is weak, and his vicious third uncle's family controls the family property and even plans to sell him as an apprentice to cut off his path to the imperial exam. Lin Chuan uses modern logical thinking to expose his third uncle's fake accounts, uses geometry to help the village head solve field disputes and earn his first pot of gold, and improves the academy's irrigation system with physical principles to win the teacher's appreciation. Two years later, the 12-year-old him walks into the palace exam with an answer sheet full of "modern wisdom" and impresses the emperor with a policy essay combining astronomy and calendar, becoming the youngest top scholar. When he returns home in a red robe, the third uncle's family, who were waiting to see a joke, are dumbfounded—the little guy who was once bullied at will has become a new imperial official who can shake the foundation of the Lin family!

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