In the cold winter of the Dayan Dynasty, Shen Yan knelt on the cold bluestone of the Prime Minister's Mansion, the whip marks on his back still bleeding. Three days ago, he was a doctor in the 21st century history department, but now he has become a lowly book boy whose life and death are in the hands of his master.
When he discovered that the young master Zhao Heng he was serving was a fool who could not even memorize the Three Character Classic, and the fate of the entire family depended on whether this fool could pass the imperial examination, Shen Yan clenched his frozen fists.
"Take the test for me once, and I'll take care of the matter of deportation." Zhao Heng's suggestion was like a life-saving straw, but it also hid the risk of death.
No one expected that this humble book boy had amazing abilities:
At the age of eight, he ghostwrote "Chi Shang", which made the "prodigy" Zhao Heng famous in Beijing;
At the age of nine, he drew "Four Books of Comics", interpreting the words of saints in the market's vernacular, which aroused Long Yan's great joy;
He created the "Pinyin" method at the age of ten, overturning the millennium-old imperial examination system and making students from poor families call him "the grace of reinvention".
When the emperor personally bestowed the "Three Yuan Ji Di" plaque on the Golden Palace, Shen Yan stood behind Zhao Heng, looking at the exclamations of the civil and military officials in the court, silently thinking about the next step - how to use this "substitute" name to not only free himself and his family from slavery, but also to find his own path in this treacherous dynastic struggle for hegemony.
After all, he hides more than "a billion bits" of modern wisdom.
