Reborn Son-in-Law: Becoming a God by Copying Books

In the eighteenth year of the Republic, warlords carved up the country, while Shanghai reveled in wealth and decadence.

The Shen family of Jiangnan was a scholarly household. When their young lady returned from studying abroad, she brought home a live-in son-in-law, Gu Sanlang.

Born to a private-school pupil, he lived in the west wing and ate leftovers. The servants sneered at him, and his brother-in-law walked all over him.

They thought they had taken in a useless fool. Little did they know he had been reborn and wanted nothing more than to eat his fill and wait for death.

Then he unexpectedly gained a golden finger: every night at midnight, works from the future appeared in his mind.

Poems, novels, editorials, essays: he copied them all down from memory.

While others relied on talent, he used his pen to shake the world of the Republic of China.

The Madman's Diary and The True Story of Ah Q appeared one after another, setting the whole city abuzz.

When a scoundrel stole credit for his work, he wrote another piece that delivered an even harsher face-slapping.

When the academic establishment tried to crush him, he fought back with modern literature and put them in their place.

Once stuck with a cold hearth in the west wing, now his name filled the newspaper headlines.

His mother-in-law's disdain turned to respect, and his indifferent wife eventually fell for him.

He started newspapers, launched businesses, and repaired clocks, turning his fortunes around at every step.

He rose from obscurity not with his fists, but with a pen that overturned the old world.

Was the world unjust? He smiled and wrote down the future.

In the end, he became the king of public opinion, wielding his pen to awaken an era.