In the third year of the Apocalypse, Shen Yanqiu, a talented man from the south of the Yangtze River, amazed the court with his article "On the Way of Governing the World" and was selected as the number one scholar. He wanted to go to the south of the Yangtze River to control floods and realize his ambition. However, after the banquet in Qionglin, he was framed by the concubine Li Mingyuan and Shu Fei. He was demoted to a commoner and exiled to Lingnan for the crime of "liaison with the harem and accepting bribes".
The former number one scholar, who was well-off and well-off, was once reduced to an exile living by chopping firewood, but he was not defeated by the suffering. In a small town in Lingnan, he met A Niu, a kind-hearted young man, for help, and reunited with his old acquaintance Su Ningshuang, the daughter of a famous doctor in Jiangnan. The three of them joined hands to understand the suffering of the people at the bottom, while secretly collecting evidence of the conspiracy. From setting up a street stall to treat diseases, writing letters on behalf of others, to gradually exposing the shady secrets of officialdom, Shen Yanqiu used pen and ink as a blade and original intention as a shield to survive step by step in a desperate situation.
When the truth gradually emerges and the court is shaken, can he clear his grievances, regain his golden pen, seek justice for himself, and find peace for the people of the world? A counterattack legend about a fallen champion, full of the ups and downs of officialdom and the warmth of the world.
