Forty-year-old Lin Mo has been trapped in the humiliation of his wife Li for half his life. As a minister of the state school, he is regarded as a "slut" by his wife who comes from a scholarly family, and he will be looked down upon even if he defends his widowed mother and brother. After an illness, he actually dreamed back to the year he got married - he had just been transferred from a rural school teacher to a county school clerk. He had only been married for two months, which was when the Li family first started to attack because of his "rural relatives".
In his previous life, he was submissive, but in this life, he has returned with half a lifetime of experience. At the County Academy, he made a name for himself by taking advantage of the Spring and Autumn Festival. He was promoted step by step from a temporary clerk to a lecturer in the government school. He also used his salary to secretly buy property, opened a righteous school to recruit children from poor families, and became famous. At home, he no longer knelt down to beg for peace. Instead, he enshrined the clan rules and the seven-step rule. When Li took action, he examined his injuries in public and asked the clan elders to judge. He turned a "talented woman" into a "shrew" and became infamous.
Mrs. Li wanted to use her mother's scholarly family background to dominate others, but she was shocked to find that her husband was already an academic official, and even her father had to be polite. Lin Mo coldly established family rules: those who violated taboos would be deducted money and grounded, and those who showed off would be treated kindly. He allowed her to learn to serve her mother with tea and personally transform her character amid the fear of "being divorced at any time."
After his eldest son Lin Shuo was born, he personally taught him the lesson of "a man should kneel to heaven and kneel to his parents, but not to a shrew" and took his son back to his hometown to worship his ancestors, so that he could understand his roots and grow up confidently. More than ten years later, Lin Mo finally became a scholar, and his righteous learning spread all over the world; Mrs. Li transformed into a gentle housewife who no longer dared to mention her family status; Lin Shuo also became a humble gentleman, restrained in his sharpness. He consoled himself in front of his father's grave: "Dad, my son did not bring shame to the Lin family this time." He finally achieved the pinnacle of being a master and living a clear life.
