Reborn in the Ming Dynasty, 1560

In the thirty-ninth year of the Jiajing reign, history professor Lin Bowen’s soul transmigrates into the body of a Hangzhou scholar. Xu Jie and Yan Song are locked in a fierce political struggle. Yan Shifan holds court at the provincial examination hall, while Zhang Juzheng is destined to rise. The Ming court is a web of intrigue and shifting fortunes. Armed with the insight of a modern soul who understands the course of a dynasty’s collapse, he rises from a second-class metropolitan graduate to a Hanlin Academy junior compiler. In the four-way contest between imperial power, ministerial power, the gentry, and the common people, he draws on six hundred years of historical wisdom to carve out a path to survival for the Ming dynasty.