A Poor Scholar’s Book of Wrong Answers

After Shen Yan, a poor scholar, fails the imperial exams three times, he is humiliated by his family and unexpectedly inherits his grandmother’s keepsake: a mysterious sheepskin booklet. It contains not only real exam questions from future imperial examinations, but also warnings and a price that could change his fate.

This is no simple tale of rising from the ashes. It is the tragic journey of a young man who, amid the currents of history, trades twenty years of his life for a chance to live with a clear conscience. When the sheepskin booklet turns to ashes at the end, the true legend has only just begun: no foresight, no shortcuts, only a man of letters and the path he chooses to follow.