From the Start, I Cut Ties with My Family. Now My Scumbag Father Begs This Unfilial Son

[Ancient-Era Farming] [Imperial Exam Comeback] [Father and Son Turn Against Each Other] [Build Wealth Through Business] [No Golden Finger]

His biological father, a licentiate, abandoned his wife and child to marry into a wealthy family. Years later, he returned home in glory, only to seize the family’s ancestral fields, slander the boy’s mother, and drive the entire family to ruin!

Facing off in court, with blood staining the ancestral hall, the frail mother fell to her knees and begged. The young Chen Yuan severed their ties with a single “declaration of estrangement,” swearing to make the coldhearted man regret what he had done!

To save his loving mother, he sweated through the days working at the docks and studied the classics by lamplight at night. With remarkable ingenuity, he saw the opportunity in the court’s plans to dig a canal, wagered everything he owned, and bought a hundred mu of barren land, laying the groundwork for a masterstroke.

This is the story of a poor scholar’s rise. No golden finger from the heavens, only an unyielding spirit. He changes his fate through knowledge, builds his defenses through business, and rises to glory through the imperial examinations.

He will complete this road to the heavens with his own blood and sweat, and do it with his head held high!