Wu Niu’s Life After Breaking Free

Wu Niu is an illiterate thug everyone despises in the outskirts between city and countryside. He lives beneath his father's sighs, his mother's tears, and the shadow of his brother in prison. Then he wanders into the Ink-Scented Pavilion, where the owner, Mo Zhixiu, presses him down in front of a pile of books. “Starting today, your life resets to zero.” Carrying books, arranging books, copying characters, reciting texts... A brutal yet meticulous points system wears down his rough fists until they are callused from holding a pen. When his dormant gift for remembering everything he sees suddenly awakens, a century-old family wager is revived: spend three years in seclusion in an underground book tower, surrounded by a hundred thousand rare volumes, in exchange for a complete rebirth. When he emerges, he will no longer be Wu Niu. The foundation built on knowledge will eventually lift up a brand-new soul named Wu Jiahao, lighting his own path through the mortal world.