Volume One, Chapter 101: The Courtesan’s Insight Recognizes a Hero; The People's Plight and the Cautionary Tale of the Suffering Boat-Poor Scholar: Top Scorer in the Imperial Exam, and You Want to Sell My Sister?(A Phoenix Dwelling in the Azure Wilderness)

Volume One, Chapter One: Selling My Sister at the Start? I Can't Stay in This Miserable Home Any Longer!

Volume One, Chapter Two: Drawing Lots to Decide Life and Death—At Eight Years Old, I Offer a Plan to Save My Sister!

Volume One, Chapter Three: To Save My Sister, I Sold Myself!

Volume One, Chapter Four: The Mischievous Child Drives the Wealthy Father to Fury!

Volume One, Chapter Five: Father, I Want Him!

Volume One, Chapter Six: A Bolt from the Blue! Father and Mother Collapse on the Spot!

Volume One, Chapter Seven: Even the Money from Selling Myself Is Stolen—My Whole Family Has Hearts Like Wolves and Lungs Like Dogs!

Volume One, Chapter Eight: Majestic and Unyielding—I'm Going to Split the Family!

Volume One, Chapter Nine: Entering the Zhang Residence—The Young Master Is Simple-Minded, While the Young Lady Is Truly Clever!

Volume One, Chapter 10: Dimensional Strike—The Proud Young Lady's Defenses Shattered!

Volume One, Chapter Eleven: A Poem of Compassion for Farmers Amazes the Audience—The Young Lady Is Once Again Moved to Tears!

Volume One, Chapter Twelve: Silver-Tongued Eloquence—What a Tragic Death for Uncle!

Volume One, Chapter 13: The Young Lady Offers an Apology? Chen Pingchuan Turns the Tables!

Volume One, Chapter Fourteen: Entertaining Instruction—Is This Another Way to Read a Book?

Volume One, Chapter 15: Next Time, I’ll Feed It to You Myself

Volume One, Chapter 16: Master Zhang's Ecstatic Delight—My Silver Was Well Spent!

Volume One, Chapter 17: Good Intentions Gone Awry? Genius Teaching Infuriates the Old Traditionalist!

Volume One, Chapter 18: Trading Silver for Elementary Learning—A Worthwhile Bargain!

Volume One, Chapter 19: Another Cliffhanger?! The Proud Heiress Forced to Spend Lavishly on the Spot!

Volume One, Chapter 20: A New Approach—The Little Fish Takes the Bait

Volume One, Chapter 21: The Stone’s Journey to the West—Chen Pingchuan’s Surprise Arrives

Volume One, Chapter Twenty-Two: The Wealthy Young Man Knows Nothing—Watch My Performance!

Volume One, Chapter 23: The Little Page Tells Stories So Well That the Young Masters Are Completely Enchanted!

Volume One, Chapter Twenty-Four: Zhang Jingshu Is Petty and Quick-Tempered! Who Says This Is Just a Worthless Stone?

Volume One, Chapter 25: Worrisome—Old Master Chen Stirs Up Trouble Again

Volume One, Chapter 26: Selling Himself into Servitude and Still Making Money—My Affection for Him Was Not in Vain!

Volume One, Chapter 27: Exceptional Parents, The Weight of Filial Piety Crushes the Honest

Volume One, Chapter 28: Is Pride More Important? Family Ties Are Nonsense—Better Off Without Them!

Volume One, Chapter 29: My Stone Is Worth This Price!

Volume One, Chapter 30: Sky-High Stones—One Tael Each!

Volume One, Chapter 31: Only a Fool Would Buy This Worthless Stone!

Volume One, Chapter 32: The Swindler Gets His Comeuppance, and the Rare Stones Are Snatched Up!

Volume One, Chapter 33: This Farmer’s Luck Must Have Been Blessed by His Ancestors!

Volume One, Chapter 34: This Young Attendant Is Simply Unbelievable! Master Fang Is Completely Astonished!

Volume One, Chapter 35: The Good-for-Nothing Young Master Transforms into a Genius Overnight? The Mysterious Master Behind the Scenes Revealed!

Volume One, Chapter Thirty-Six: How Dare a Mere Bookboy Act So Arrogantly? Master Fang: Try Touching My Disciple!

Volume One, Chapter 37: The Eight-Year-Old Scholar’s Verbal Duel with the Pedant—The Whole Hall Astounded: A True Prodigy!

Volume One, Chapter 38: The Four Sentences of Hengqu Astonish the World! Deified on the Spot!

Volume One, Chapter 39: A Sky-High Ransom—No Matter the Cost, She Must Be Freed!

Volume One, Chapter 40: Lantern Riddles? Chen Pingchuan Leaves the Stall Owner Stumped!

Volume One, Chapter 41: The Willful Young Lady—What I Give You, You Must Accept!

Volume One, Chapter Forty-Two: The Mischief of the Wild Child! A Rabbit Sparks a Bloody Incident!

Volume One, Chapter 43: Mr. Fang’s Words Startle the Dreamer—Chen Pingchuan’s Mind Opens

Volume One, Chapter 44: The Perfect Partner—Master Zhang’s Ecstatic Delight!

Volume One, Chapter 45: Waive My Ransom but Demand Ten Years of Service? Dream On!

Volume One, Chapter 46: The "Journey to the West" Studio Opens—The Little Page Becomes the Manager?

Volume One, Chapter 47: The Landlord’s Son Versus the Wealthy Master’s Heir—Whoever Loses Is a Coward

Volume One, Chapter 48: The Miraculous Fishing Method—The Landowner’s Son Can’t Hold Back!

Volume One, Chapter 49: Zhang Jinbao's "Money Power," Chen Pingchuan's Reverse Scale!

Volume One, Chapter 50: The "Delicacy" from the Young Master of the Zhang Residence

Volume One, Chapter 51: The Shameless Family—Snatching the Child's Supplements!

Volume One, Chapter 52: Retribution Strikes! The Entire Chen Family Is Laid Low!

Volume One, Chapter 53: Scarcity Marketing, the Whole City Scrambles!

Volume One, Chapter 54: Collector's Edition! Autographed Edition! The Depths of Pingchuan's Schemes Are Unfathomable!

Volume One, Chapter 55: The Master Has Lost His Judgment—Letting an Eight-Year-Old Audit the Accounts?

Volume One, Chapter 56: The Clever Page Outwits the Greedy Accountant; Young Master Zhang Is Forced to the Examination Hall

Volume One, Chapter 57: Sudden Abduction! The Perpetrator Is Him!

Volume One, Chapter 58: Escape from Desperation, Life Hanging by a Thread!

Volume One, Chapter 59: Volunteering for Duty, Bravely Confronting the Villain!

Volume One, Chapter Sixty: The Villain Meets His End, Chen Pingchuan Regains His Freedom!

Volume One, Chapter 61: Chen Pingchuan Offers Grand Gifts for the Birthday, But Old Chen Fails to Recognize Their Value

Volume One, Chapter Sixty-Two: The Wasteful Grandson Tears the Album; The Entire Chen Family Is Consumed with Regret

Volume One, Chapter 63: A Silver Note of One Hundred Taels Shows Filial Devotion; Ten Taels of Sincere Gold to Hook a Big Fish

Volume One, Chapter 64: The Precious First Draft Is Nothing but Scrap Paper, The Chen Family’s Infighting Brings Shame

Volume One, Chapter 65: An Eight-Year-Old Tops the Exam, While His Thirty-Year-Old Uncle Can't Hold Back

Volume I, Chapter 66: Prodigy Triumphs in Three Examinations, Chen Family Relatives All Show Their True Colors

Volume One, Chapter 67: A Battle of Words—Leaving the Most Difficult Relatives Speechless

Volume One, Chapter 68: The Scholar’s Wife Shows Her Might, Rebukes Her Relatives and Holds Her Head High

Volume One, Chapter Sixty-Nine: The Prince Cherishes Talent, the Princess Is Moved, and Chen Pingchuan Becomes a Rising Star

Volume One, Chapter 70: The Brat Causes a Calamity, the Old Crone Wants Grain More Than Life

Volume One, Chapter 71: Kind Words Cannot Persuade the Doomed, the Luo Family Flees to the City to Escape Disaster

Volume One, Chapter 72: Master Chen Passes Away, and the First and Third Branches Shift the Blame

Volume One, Chapter 73: The Father’s Bones Are Barely Cold, Yet the Unfilial Son Refuses to Give a Single Coin!

Volume One, Chapter 74: A Monthly Interest of One Percent? My Simple-Minded Relative Is Over the Moon!

Volume One, Chapter 75: Not Even a Needle Is Spared—Are They Not Afraid of Retribution!

Volume One, Chapter 76: While Here They Welcome a New Life in the Cottage, Over There the Whole Family Bets Everything, Awaiting Fortune!

Volume One, Chapter 77: The Second Household Enjoys Tranquil Days, While the Old Residence Counts Down to a Storm!

Volume One, Chapter 78: All Efforts in Vain, Villains Have Their Own Nemesis

Volume One, Chapter 79: Serves You Right! I’d Rather Give My Money to Beggars Than to Beasts!

Volume One, Chapter 80: The Eccentric Relatives Arrive, and the Wrongdoer Strikes First

Volume One, Chapter 81: Outwitting the Malicious Woman, Acclaim Surges, A Win-Win Situation!

Volume One, Chapter 82: Don't Call Me Miss, Call Me Jingzhu!

Volume One, Chapter 83: Tempests in the County Examination Hall—The Examinee Next Door Turns Out to Be My Uncle

Volume One, Chapter 84: Forsaking the Right Path for the Wrong One—Serves You Right!

Volume One, Chapter 85: Examination Fraud? With a Single Letter, I Shake the World!

Volume One, Chapter 86: Mocking My Failure? I Turned Around and Made Money Hand Over Fist!

Volume One, Chapter Eighty-Seven: Calm Before the Storm, Chen Pingchuan Remains Serene

Volume One, Chapter 88: Conclusive Evidence—Stripped of Honors, the Death Sentence for a Scholar!

Volume One, Chapter 89: Chen Pingchuan Rises to the Top as Provincial Laureate, and Eldest Uncle Loses His Composure Again

Volume One, Chapter 90: When the King of Qin Casts an Olive Branch, Is It a Heavenly Windfall or a Mount Tai Crashing Down?

Volume One, Chapter Ninety-One: Heading to the capital for the imperial examinations—so lucky that bandits appeared the moment he left the city.

Volume One, Chapter Ninety-Two: At that level of intelligence, you think you are fit to be the boss?

Volume One, Chapter Ninety-Three: At that moment, the sword was only 0.01 centimeters from my throat.

Volume One, Chapter 94: Playing for High Stakes! Win and Become the Strategist, Lose and Lose Your Head

Volume One, Chapter 95: The Vultures Descend—The Whole Village Surrenders? Strategist, What Is Your Opinion?

Volume One, Chapter 96: Chen Pingchuan Weaves an Inescapable Net, Old Bald Li Finds No Way to Escape

Volume One, Chapter 97: Kill the Prisoners? Fool, They're All Strong Laborers!

Volume One, Chapter 98: Stabbing the Strategist—The Chief Mistress Is Thoroughly Flustered!

Volume 1, Chapter 99: Lady Phoenix Finally Relents, But She Has a Condition

Volume One, Chapter One Hundred: A Brilliant Wit Stuns the Entire Assembly in a Battle of Couplets, Deconstructing Characters to Outshine All Rivals

Volume One, Chapter 101: The Courtesan’s Insight Recognizes a Hero; The People's Plight and the Cautionary Tale of the Suffering Boat

Volume One, Chapter 102: Fortunate Fate, a Martial Arts Master to the Rescue!

Volume One, Chapter 103: Gods Wager—And the Stake Is Me?

Volume One, Chapter 104: Human Sacrifice? A Textbook Solution!

Volume 1, Chapter 105: Pingchuan Exposes the Den of Human Traffickers, Liaochen Transforms into a Wrathful Vajra

Volume One, Chapter 106: If the Emperor Is Incompetent and the Court Decays, Then I Shall Take His Place!

Volume One, Chapter 107: The Rogue of the Capital Causes Trouble; Chen Pingchuan: Have You No Shame?

Volume One, Chapter 108: The Rogue's Poetry Gathering Trap? Chen Pingchuan: Still Coming? No Shame Left, Huh?

Volume One, Chapter 109: The Literary Star Descends to Earth? Not Even a Dog Would Believe It!

Volume 1, Chapter 110: The Final Strategy, I Have Written Everything, Both What Should and Should Not Be Written!

Volume One, Chapter 111: You Call This a Worthless Scroll? It Is the Perfect Prescription for Governing the State and Securing the Realm!

Volume One, Chapter 112: First Place Again? Achieving Top Honors Twice in a Row Is Simply Unbelievable!

Volume One, Chapter 113: Worse Than Demons—Madam Chen Faces Retribution!

Volume One, Chapter 114: A Strategy to Secure the World—Subduing the Barbarians Without Battle

Volume One, Chapter 115: The Sacred Heart Claims the Top Scholar, Underlying Currents Stir the Capital

Volume One, Chapter 116: You Dare Cross the Celestial Star of Literature Descending to Earth? Seeking Death!

Volume 1, Chapter 117: This vendetta, I shall repay it in full, with interest, in the days to come!

Volume 1, Chapter 118: Terror at the Feast of Imperial Favor, Chen Pingchuan Narrowly Escapes Death!

Volume 1, Chapter 119: This Cannibalistic Imperial Court Is the Battlefield That Truly Belongs to You

Volume 1, Chapter 120: A Show of Force on the First Day? Chen Pingchuan: Who's Afraid of Whom?

Volume 1, Chapter 121: I Asked You to Organize the Files, You Exposed My Secret?

Volume 1, Chapter 122: I Propose a Strategy for Border Security, and You Respond with a Struggle Session?

Volume 1, Chapter 123: Tell Me Loudly, Between Thirty-Seven Million and Five Hundred Thousand, Which Do You Choose?

Volume 1, Chapter 124: The Prisoner Won't Talk? Chen Pingchuan: Let Me Try

Volume 1, Chapter 125: High-end interrogations often employ the most primitive methods.

Volume 1, Chapter 126: If the living cannot judge you, then let the magistrates of the underworld pass sentence!

Volume 1, Chapter 127: A Mother Protects Her Brother, Defying Imperial Power! Is a Top Scholar’s Life Worth Less Than a Dog’s?

Volume 1, Chapter 128: The Empress Dowager Imposes Silence? Chen Pingchuan: I’ll Overturn You All Without Saying a Word!

Volume 1, Chapter 129: Facing the Wall in Contemplation? Or Giving Up in Despair? How Can the Swallow Understand the Ambitions of the Swan!

Volume 1, Chapter 130: The Capital Poetry Gathering, Chen Pingchuan Plans Something Big!

Volume 1, Chapter 131: A Poem That Stunned the Assembly, A Book That Subverted Ancient Knowledge

Volume 1, Chapter 132: Heretical Teachings or Profound Truths? Two Factions Clash, Shaking the Court and the Country!

Volume One, Chapter 133: A Dragon’s Den and Tiger’s Lair—A Crimson Gate Banquet? I Shall Leave Behind a Loyal Heart to Illuminate the Annals of History!

Volume 1, Chapter 134: Imperial Uncle Liang is Dumbfounded, Half the Capital's Scholars Have Arrived?!

Volume 1, Chapter 135: A War of Words Against the Scholars, the Top Scholar is on a Rampage!