This Live-In Son-in-Law Writes Poetry, and One Line Can Shock the World by Slaying His Enemies

[Set in a fictional Central Plains dynasty. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental.]

Xiao Wenyuan, a poor scholar of exceptional talent, is humiliated when his engagement is broken off. With no other choice, he marries into the Luo family, where he is treated with contempt.

He had always written poetry to express his feelings, but then he awakens the power of the Literary Vein. His words become poems that call forth wondrous changes in heaven and earth: a single line can slay an enemy, and one poem can break a formation.

Mocked as a good-for-nothing at a banquet? He writes of snow and wind on the frontier, giving the garrison a thousand miles away divine aid. He turns a doomed battle around and wins, the enemy commander is slain, and the whole hall is stunned.

The literary path flourishes while military commanders are suppressed. Powerful officials at court collude with foreign tribes, and dark currents surge through the martial world.

He makes his name through poetry and rises step by step, from son-in-law to head of the Literary Temple, then to guardian of the realm and defender of the frontier.

A talented scholar falls for him, a heroine follows him, and his wife never leaves his side. A bevy of beauties all share one husband.

See how one son-in-law can shape the world with his brush and command the land with his poetry!

Also known as: “This Son-in-Law Is Cultured, So You’d Better Not Mess With Him” and “Wait, I Just Asked You to Write a Poem. Why Did the Sky Go Dark?”