When the leaky fragments of the ruined temple are soaked with blood and tears, who would have thought that this poor scholar chewing cold steamed buns would actually become a being who stirred up the turmoil of the dynasty? Chu Lingyuan has been notorious as a "disaster star" since he was a child. After his parents died, he lived in a ruined temple. Under the difficulties of Zhou Chengxuan, a powerful son, even the road to the imperial examination was full of poisonous schemes and traps.
In a desperate situation, he unexpectedly awakens the golden finger of [Wenquxingjian] - it can transform the hard study of poetry and books into martial arts cultivation, and every strategy he reviews can be turned into a secret technique for killing enemies! With the help of his confidante Liu Ruoxuan, the support of his best friend Meng Huaijin's secret guards, and the strategic teachings of his mentor Ouyang Hongru, Chu Lingyuan holds the No. 1 Scholar's Pen in his left hand and the Sword of Cutting Nie in his right hand, fighting his way through the fraud case in the examination room, all the way to the Golden Hall.
However, when he stood at the center of power as a "poor prime minister", he discovered that a bigger conspiracy was brewing. With cavalry in northern Xinjiang pressing down on the border, factions in the DPRK and China fighting against each other, and civil strife rising all over the place, can this noble man from a humble family with a golden finger stick to his heart and write his own legend in these troubled times?
