After saving the Empress, I became the top scholar in the imperial examination.

Ning Nan transmigrated to a dilapidated Li Family Village in the book and stayed there for a full eighteen years.
After rescuing the amnesiac female lead before the male lead could, she discovered that the male lead had also rescued one!
He forced the male protagonist to become sworn brothers with this woman. Satisfied, he went home and examined the woman's fingers. Seeing the calluses on her hands, he confirmed that she was indeed just the female protagonist's maid!
He lamented as he busied himself trying to please the real female lead in order to obtain household registration and participate in the imperial examination.
But with his mother's encouragement, he still married this maid.
However... things gradually took a turn for the worse.
When he writes, his mother only praises his writing as being really dark, but his wife praises his Wei stele style, saying that even the Grand Secretary of the court is inferior to him.
When Ningwa treats injuries with penicillin, bystanders will say that although Ningwa is fierce, he is skilled in herbal medicine. His wife will look at him with shining eyes and say that even doctors should come to him to become his apprentices.
He led a team to dredge the dilapidated river in the village. His wife asked what would happen if the river became a hundred times larger.
While she was researching gunpowder formulations in the back mountains, her wife secretly followed her and asked if she could teach her the formula.
He went up the mountain stronghold to rescue his brother, and he made up his mind to order his wife to remarry. As a result, his wife followed him with her friends... But how come his wife's martial arts skills are so high?
Why does my wife have so many friends? One of them looks like the commander of the Embroidered Uniform Guard.
Later, he was rewarded for defeating the mountain bandits and received a household registration certificate, becoming a true citizen of Daliang!
...You're eligible to participate in the imperial examinations!
He progressed through the ranks from Xiucai (a successful candidate in the county-level imperial examination) to Juren (a successful candidate in the provincial-level imperial examination), Jinshi (a successful candidate in the metropolitan-level imperial examination), and finally Zhuangyuan (the top scholar in the imperial examination).
Adorned with hairpins and flowers, he appeared triumphant and pleased when he met the Empress.
A very familiar voice came from the imperial court.
"Wow, this top scholar looks... quite handsome."