Jiang Ling traveled through a book overnight, becoming a substitute bride and binding to the imperial examination system. Completing tasks allows her to draw rewards such as grain, rice, and meat. Looking at the empty grain vat and Xie Lin, her husband who lies flat and is illiterate, she is determined to give it a try. The system releases tasks one after another, from teaching Xie Lin to write his name and recite the Three Character Classic, to taking the examinations for xiucai and juren. Xie Lin originally intended to slack off and resisted whenever studying was mentioned, so Jiang Ling used stick discipline and material incentives to urge him. The neighbors all laughed at her whimsical ideas. But under her strict discipline, the former lazybones buried himself in studying and advanced step by step through the imperial examinations. When the gold list was announced, everyone was shocked: the glorious top scorer was actually beaten out stick by stick by his own wife!