▲ Gu Mingyuan transmigrates into the body of a poor scholar who has fainted from hunger outside the examination compound. Using a fragment of The Complete Treatise on River Defense, he cracks an imperial examination fraud case. He lays out a flood-control map with pine nut candy, catching Princess Ning’an’s attention.
▲ To raise money to improve the chain pump, he sneaks into the Tianyin Pavilion and performs The Song of the Rainbow Skirt and Feathered Robe with Su Wanyun. Their dance movements conceal clues to loopholes in the salt tax.
▲ Shen Shuyue is poisoned while assassinating a corrupt official and takes refuge in the male lead’s ruined temple, where she discovers that his method of brewing medicine somehow incorporates modern chemical formulas...
