Poor Scholar? I Can Spout Timeless Quatrains

When he woke up, Lin Yuan, a humanities nerd, had become a penniless scholar in the Great Yan dynasty. His home was bare, creditors were at the door, and his fiancee was about to come by and break off their engagement. From the start, he was playing on nightmare difficulty. Fortunately, his mind held the splendid civilization of an entire world: Li Bai's poems, Su Shi's lyrics, Du Fu's songs, Wang Xizhi's calligraphy... While others racked their brains over a single couplet, Lin Yuan could compose verses on the spot. "Heaven has given me talent for a reason; even if I spend a thousand gold, it will all return!" With poetry and lyrics, he earned his first pot of gold and escaped his predicament. "Establish a moral compass for heaven and earth, secure the fate of the people, carry on the lost teachings of the sages, and bring peace to all generations!" Through the Way of literature, he rose step by step and stirred the court into turmoil. Enemies threatened the borders, treacherous ministers lurked within, and the princes' struggle for the throne grew ever fiercer. With a three-foot wolf-hair brush in hand, Lin Yuan swore to use five thousand years of literary brilliance to usher this weakened dynasty into an unprecedented golden age. His brush strokes stirred storms; his poems moved gods and ghosts to tears. In this life, he would become the Sage of Poetry, unmatched in brilliance!