Qian Qifan is an associate professor in a university history department and a renowned young scholar in China who studies the Song Dynasty imperial examination system. After transmigrating to the Northern Song during Emperor Huizong’s reign, he meets Mi Ling, who has also transmigrated to the Northern Song. In modern society, Mi Ling was a successful and powerful woman. After arriving in the Northern Song, she becomes Li Shishi. Sharing Qian Qifan’s fate, she helps him advance through the imperial examinations. After enduring all kinds of trials and hardships, he achieves the unprecedented feat of earning the top honors in all six examinations, becoming the greatest top scholar in history.
Is the prototype the six-yuan champion Qian Qi?
Yi Gong's novels are very fluent and his knowledge is broad and rare.