A Song Dynasty Tale of Making It Big

Driven by hardship and hounded by gambling debts, Hu Yan, a young scholar reborn in the final years of the Southern Song, has no choice but to marry into the Zheng family of butchers. He has no intention of acting like a son-in-law who has married into the family. The moment he arrives, he takes charge of the household, kicking off his rise from the bottom and setting out on the road to conquest.