Lin Fan was a top student in history, politics, and finance at a modern elite university. After an accident, he was reborn in the Jiajing era of the Ming Dynasty as a down-on-his-luck scholar with the same name.
After learning about the original owner's circumstances and the course of history in this world, he used modern knowledge to solve his family's financial crisis and rise to become the Ming Dynasty's Grand Secretary. He developed the Ming Dynasty into a world power, then retired at the height of his success and withdrew to the countryside with his family.