After transmigrating to the Dali dynasty, Lei Ming is bound from the start to a System that rewards good deeds and saving lives. As long as he does good and builds up merit, he can rise in rank, grow rich, and live in peace.
Lei Ming takes things in stride. He just wants to keep a low profile and lie flat, lending a hand when someone needs saving and quietly building up a little merit. He has no desire to make a name for himself, pass the imperial exams, become an official, or draw attention.
He casually helps a scholar in trouble, hoping to earn a little merit, but the System rewards him with extraordinary literary talent and a photographic memory. He saves an upright official who has been framed, hoping only to right a wrong, but the entire court rallies behind him and his reputation shoots through the roof. He rescues a poor orphan girl by the roadside and settles a neighborhood dispute along the way, only for the whole city to hail him as a great benefactor.
The authorities recommend him for the imperial exams, but Lei Ming turns them down again and again, wanting nothing more than to lie flat and enjoy a quiet life. Who could have guessed that a few casual answers to get through the exams would carry him all the way through the provincial, metropolitan, and palace exams, where he takes first place in all three and becomes the youngest top scholar in the dynasty?
The emperor summons him in person and appoints him to high office, while officials compete to curry favor with him. Lei Ming can only look exasperated. “I really just want to save people and do good deeds. I never wanted to become an official or famous!” He keeps a low profile, saves people, and does good without making a fuss, yet every time he is forced into the limelight and hailed as a legend. Without meaning to, this laid-back young man becomes an unparalleled legend of the Dali dynasty.
