At the end of the Liang Dynasty in the Southern Dynasty, Luo Song, a scholar from a poor family, died unjustly in an imperial examination fraud case and was reborn three years ago. In his previous life, he was introduced as a confidant by Xu Xiaolin, a young man from an aristocratic family because of his talent and fame. However, he did not know that he was the culprit who framed him. He was eventually poisoned on the eve of the imperial examination, and his reputation was ruined.
After rebirth, Luo Song returned with the memories of his past life, vowing to take revenge on all betrayers, and to open a path for promotion for the children of poor families in the troubled times where the clans were divided. At that time, the lingering poison of the Ninth Grade Zhongzheng System had not yet been cleared up, and the Jiankang Family Alliance monopolized the official career. The family forces headed by Xu Xiaolin regarded the emerging talents from poor families as a thorn in their side, and Luo Song was the target of their elimination.
The "Tianjian Reform" imperial examination a year later was Emperor Wu of Liang's first attempt to break the monopoly of the family. It was also a once-in-a-century opportunity for a poor family, and it was Luo Song's only chance to rewrite his destiny and save his family. If he fails to win the championship, he will make the same mistake again and his family will be a slave forever. But the poor family has no one to rely on, but the aristocratic family has the question bank and colludes with the examiners. The road to the imperial examination has already been laid out.
Luo Song relied on his foresight to intercept the test questions in advance, understand the examiner's intentions, make friends with key figures, and solve the problem step by step. He pretended to cater to Xu Xiaolin's "friendship", reversely infiltrated the family alliance, used his tricks to plan a counter-murder campaign of imperial examination fraud, and brought down his former enemies one by one.
However, just as he reached the top, Luo Song was shocked to realize that the real enemy was not Xu Xiaolin alone, but the entire decadent and rigid family system. Will he be reduced to a new powerful family, or will he completely smash the shackles that imprison the poor family in the world?
