Dare to Be a Teacher to All Under Heaven

Lin Fan was a prodigy who stunned everyone with a classical Chinese essay on the college entrance exam and claimed the top spot in the liberal arts track. After graduating from Qingbei with two master’s degrees, he founded the company “Ancient Wisdom for Modern Times,” using the insights found in classical texts to help all kinds of groups find a way through their problems. He rose to fame after using the strategies in The Art of War and Guiguzi to help a weak nation hold off a powerful invader when all seemed lost. In the eyes of the world, he became a life guru who could turn a stone into gold.

An accident sent his soul back a thousand years, into a border town where cruel laws were worse than tigers and local bullies lorded over the people.

He had no System to support him, no golden finger to give him an edge, only a head full of history, classics, philosophy, and strategies for navigating the world.

To survive, he kept his talents hidden and set up a fortune-telling stall at the town gate, taking on the name “Half-Immortal Lin” to divine fortune and misfortune.

In truth, his fortune slips held the wisdom for dealing with people found in the Analects, while his hexagram texts revealed the lessons of rise and fall found in Records of the Grand Historian.

When he met the kindhearted, he used “destiny” as a pretext to teach them how to break out of their predicament and escape their troubles.

When he encountered evildoers, he used “heavenly secrets” as bait to lay a trap of retribution, making them suffer the consequences of their own actions.

In this border town, where human lives were as worthless as weeds, Lin Fan used the wisdom of the ancients as his brush and the people’s support as his ink. He championed the good and punished the wicked in the bustling streets and back alleys, carving out a path forward through hardship and despair, and writing one legend after another, hidden in the words of his divinations and reflected in the hearts of the people.