Shen Yi, a graduate student in the Department of Modern History, was accidentally electrocuted while reading the Dunhuang fragments late at night. When he woke up, he found that he was a poor scholar who married into the Shen family in Shu during the Kaiyuan period of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty.
His wife was looked down upon by his family, his classmates ridiculed him, and even his servants dared to look down on him. The only support is the "wife" who has been engaged since childhood and has never met before - Cui Wan'er, the legitimate daughter of the Qinghe Cui family.
On their wedding night, the bride said to him: "I can give you the title of my wife, but you don't want to touch me."
Shen Yi smiled and expressed understanding. He had no intention of relying on his wife for a living.
But he didn't expect that the identity of this son-in-law would be the key to the pinnacle of power in the Tang Dynasty.
When Tubo invaded the border, he shocked the government and the public with his "Ten Strategies for Pingrong";
There was fraud in the imperial examination, and he used his words to fight against the Confucian scholars in a palace examination, leaving the prime minister speechless;
During the palace coup, he rescued the princess as an "outsider" and was summoned by Xuanzong under unusual circumstances.
It only took him three years to go from a son-in-law whom everyone laughed at to becoming the first person in the Tang Dynasty to be granted the title of marquis and prime minister as a "foreign relative".
And when he finally stood at the top of Chang'an City, overlooking the lights of thousands of houses, a familiar voice came from behind:
"Shen Yi, back then I said I wouldn't let you touch me... Does that sentence still count now?"
