A corporate drone from the 2000s, Chen Mo, dies suddenly and opens his eyes to find himself a young educated youth sitting the 1977 college entrance exam! In this parallel world, nothing is missing except that Tang and Song culture has been lost!
The Chinese exam throws him a brutal question: “Write an ancient-style essay on the spot!” Chen Mo feels around the original owner's empty head, then recalls the Tang poems and Song lyrics overflowing in his own mind. Easy: just copy them!
His “Preface to the Pavilion of Prince Teng” blows the examiners away, and an old professor slaps the table and cries, “The Star of Literature has descended!” Admitted to a top university through special dispensation, he casually quotes a Su Shi poem on the train and catches the attention of the “scheming” official Zhou Weimin.
At university, “Bring in the Wine” upends the literary world. In politics, poetry helps him rise to great heights, only to plunge to rock bottom. Amid the turbulent tides of the 1980s, he carries Li Bai's wildness, Du Fu's sorrow, and Su Shi's resilience. He copies without a shred of shame, carving a path through the world of literary plagiarism to become a great writer and powerful minister who shakes the cabinet!
