Family Clan Civil Service Exams for the Whole Farm Community!

[Alternate-history novel + imperial examinations + everyday life + no cheat powers]

Here, clan bloodlines weigh heavier than mountains, and clan rules are stricter than the law of the land.

When Qin Haoran was three, his father died in a bloody fight over water rights. According to clan law, this family that had lost its pillar would be supported by the entire clan. But fate’s cruelty was far from over—three years later, his young mother could no longer bear the loneliness of widowhood and decided to remarry...

Under the clan teaching of “better to lose an outsider than to lose one of our own,” this farm boy was brought into the clan’s support system.

When Qin Haoran carried the tuition money scraped together by the clan through hardship and stepped into the schoolhouse, what he bore was no longer just his own future. In this era where clan brawls were the norm for survival, knowledge might be the only weapon capable of breaking the cycle of fate.

A path of support woven together with blood and gratitude, an epic revealing the survival wisdom of ancient Chinese clans, and a moving story of a farm boy struggling and growing under the shelter and restraints of his clan...