A Poor Scholar's Book of Defying Fate

Wei Ying was born into a humble family, but his remarkable talent and exquisite poetry made him famous. Everyone expected him to take first place in the palace examination. Yet on the eve of the exam, undercurrents stirred at court. Powerful nobles, intent on protecting their own interests, framed his writing as evidence of a crime and dragged him into a vortex of power. Now Wei Ying faces an impossible choice: on one side lies the chance to present his poetry before the emperor and rise swiftly through the ranks...