Ye Feng, the top scorer in the liberal arts track of the national college entrance exam, is struck by lightning at the pinnacle of his life and transmigrates into a penniless scholar from a poor family in the Great Xia Kingdom.
From the start, he has only three copper coins to his name and is publicly humiliated by scions of great families. Drawing on a thousand years of knowledge from his previous life, he astounds everyone in the provincial examinations and shakes the court with ten policy proposals in the palace examination, wresting the top scholar title from the great families.
The Warrior Empress takes notice of him. Their relationship grows from suspicion to trust, from fighting side by side to unspoken affection. Ye Feng helps her reform and strengthen the army, conquer the six kingdoms, and ultimately unify the realm.
On the day the empress gives herself to him, Ye Feng has just one question: “Your Majesty, I'm not going to get struck by lightning again, am I?”
