After being reborn as the useless young master of a duke’s estate, Shen Yuan endured for eight years.
His stepmother wanted to seize his inheritance, his younger brother wanted to climb over him, and the whole capital was waiting to laugh at him.
He pretended to be foolish, dim-witted, and incapable of everything.
Until one night, someone sneaked into his courtyard.
The next day, everyone was dead.
“You think all I can do is read?”
Shen Yuan wiped the blood from his sword. “I endured for eight years because I was afraid of frightening you.”
The imperial examinations, political intrigue, the martial world, and war. He rises from the mire, step by step, to the pinnacle of the imperial court.
But no one knows that his real trump card has never been his status as the top graduate.
