A Top Scholar from the Start, Yet You Want Me to Be the Grandmaster of the Mystical Arts?

Song Jiu'an is reborn into a wealthy family.

He plans to use his memories of the future to climb the ranks and enjoy worldly riches and overwhelming power,

but just as he begins to make a name for himself, his cheap father threatens him with his life and cuts off his path to becoming an official.

Fine.

He can find solace in mountains and rivers. That sounds lovely, too.

But the story doesn't unfold as he expected.

On a night as tranquil as still water, a fox-clan princess points her sword at him, all for the sake of changing his fate with a vermilion brush.

A temple that eats people, flowers made of skulls, gods of flesh and blood: one strange event after another keeps coming.

The Seven-Star Dragon Abyss Sword and the Nine Heavens Breathing Earth inexplicably recognize him as their master, though both are ancient divine artifacts.

A sweet and bewitching beauty: "I only wish to serve by your side for the rest of my life. I ask for nothing else."

A lovely nine-tailed fox: "Tell me, who's prettier, me or that cold, stiff dragon-serpent?"

The cold and beautiful Bai Xi: "I'll guard you for a hundred worry-free years. May we never lose or forget each other."

Forced to move between competing powers, he only wants to keep to himself, yet without realizing it, he gets swept into an even greater maelstrom...

Song Jiu'an: "How did the world get this crazy? Weren't I supposed to lie flat, enjoy good food, and travel wherever I pleased?"

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