Shen Chi, a modern-day keyboard warrior, gets into an online argument about late Ming history and is accidentally electrocuted, sending his soul back to the thirteenth year of the Chongzhen era!
From the start, the difficulty is hellish! The Ming Dynasty has only four years left before its fall. Rebel bands are rising within, the Jurchen are attacking the passes from outside, and natural and man-made disasters keep piling up. And Shen Chi is just a poor provincial graduate on the verge of starving to death. His only hope is the newly awakened [Official Position Check-in System].
But the System's activation requirement is that he must first become an official!
To stay alive, Shen Chi goes all out in the palace examination, using modern knowledge to write a world-shaking policy essay that lays bare the dynasty's ills. The desperate Chongzhen Emperor unexpectedly names him the top graduate in the imperial examinations, breaking all precedent!
With the script in hand and the System at his side, watch the most formidable silver-tongued top graduate in history save the dynasty and rebuild the Ming in its final days!
