A Poor Scholar's Path to Power: My Fate Is Mine to Make

A graduate student of Chinese literature transmigrates to the Northern Song dynasty and becomes the son of a tenant farmer.

He starts with nothing, penniless and without a golden finger or a System. He doesn't even have the luxury of scraping by and doing nothing, because he's so poor. What can he do?

The Song dynasty values civil officials over military ones, doesn't it? Then he'll do something that suits him and take the imperial examinations. Hey! He unexpectedly meets the young Emperor Song Zhezong and becomes fast friends with him.

Wait a minute. It turns out the emperor is just a puppet ruler.

Song Zhezong: "I need your help to reclaim the pinnacle of power."

Song An: "I shall devote myself to Your Majesty's service until my dying breath."

Who says the poor can't produce great men?

Bah! My fate is mine to command, not Heaven's!

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