Martial Arts: From the Start, I Become a City Lord After Falling on Hard Times

Xu Shian is reborn in another world. With the soul of someone who has lived a previous life, he is naturally clever and has a photographic memory.

He awakens a divine lottery ability, which gives him one draw a day. Nine out of ten prizes are useless, but the remaining one is worth anticipating.

He uses the items he draws to establish businesses across the land and amass a fortune.

But just after he earns the title of top scorer and parades through the streets on horseback, the royal family seizes his glassworks, the business that has brought prosperity to the realm.

If his fame as a child, and the three hundred poems he claimed to have copied from a dream on Blue Star, had not earned him the title of Star of Literature, he would never have survived.

To silence public criticism, they grant him the rank of baron and a fifty-mile fief in a bitterly cold region.

The news stirs the whole world.

But the emperor sits on high, the crown prince governs in his stead, and their authority is absolute. No one dares speak out.

A month ago, the young man arrived and crowds gathered. A month later, he left the capital alone in a single carriage, with no one to see him off.

And so the story begins.

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.