From Humble Beginnings: A Young Man’s Rise to Power

Name: From Humble Beginnings: A Young Man’s Rise to Power
Author: Nine-Colored Donkey

起于微末：少年逆袭定乾坤

by Nine-Colored Donkey (九色毛驴)

Status: Ongoing
Length: 136k Words
Genre: Historical
Subgenre: Historical High-Concept
Updated: 10mo ago
Source: Fanqie

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Synopsis

Snow seals the city as the old year ends,

A beggar's lonely shadow meets a learned friend.

One couplet shatters the world's stillness,

Three strikes make a name in the aftermath.

Dark currents stir within the Jing residence,

A soldier's soul and clever schemes lie hidden in his scholar's sleeves.

Do not say the young are lowborn and weak,

They dare to ride the waves toward the clouds.

Chen Nian transmigrates and becomes a little beggar on the street.

He encounters Zhao Yu, the second young master of the Jing'an residence, and accepts an invitation to enter the household.

He thinks he will never have to sleep on the streets again, but discovers that his transmigration holds much more than meets the eye!

Unexpectedly, during a harvest festival, a wrongful case from ten years ago gradually comes to light. The case concerns the Chen family in this life,

and Chen Nian is forced into the heart of the maelstrom.

Powerful factions begin to make their moves...

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