Lin Qingxuan transmigrates into the body of an overage scholar who mooches off his parents in the Zhengde era of the Ming Dynasty. His two older sisters are utterly devoted to supporting their younger brother. To keep him studying in town, one married a butcher and keeps running home with money and meat, while the other became a concubine to the sixty-year-old Wang Yuanwai, a wealthy man from town.
The villagers gossip about the Lin family every day. Even though his two sisters married into wealthy households, Lin Qingxuan is still a hopeless case. The moment he transmigrates, he's already being cheated out of his money by a crooked gambling den owner.
Lin Qingxuan outsmarts the gambling den and wins a hundred taels. He opens a bookstore, writes popular fiction, has an unexpected encounter with the unconventional Zhengde Emperor, and joins a military campaign, stealing the title of Mighty General from Zhengde. His second sister is taken into Zhengde's harem and successfully gives birth to a prince.
Before long, the Donglin faction still manages to kill Zhengde. To preserve the Ming Dynasty, Lin Qingxuan is appointed tutor to the crown prince in the empire's hour of crisis and takes charge of the court.
He's no Zhang Juzheng, and his nephew is no Wanli.
A harmonious relationship between ruler and ministers.
