Shen Yan, a senior modern fan of historical machinations and a ten-year-old audience member of Baijia Forum, accidentally fell off a cliff while mountaineering to review the logic of ancient officialdom. His soul traveled to the fictional Jinghe period of the Southern Yan Dynasty and possessed Shen Yan, a scholar from a poor family in Qingzhou. The original owner had a poor family, and the squires colluded with petty officials to deprive him of disaster relief food. He was filled with grief and anger and couldn't afford to fall ill, so he was given a chance to be reborn. Shen Yan, who had just traveled through time, faced the cruel reality of the people at the bottom being exploited by exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and the cruel reality of the fish and meat village of the gentry. He was used to seeing neighbors turning against each other over half a bag of coarse grains, and disaster victims fighting over a mouthful of scraps. She completely broke the romantic filter of ancient officialdom, and established the idea of "entering an official position through the imperial examination, protecting justice with wisdom, and not letting the common people suffer unjustly..."
