Cast out with nothing when the family split, then expelled from the clan and thrown out the door.
Zhou Xingyuan transmigrates into a farming family, becoming an outcast whom his whole family tramples into the dirt.
But they don’t know that inside this ten-year-old child’s head lives a modern soul.
Two mu of poor land, a heap of junk, and a ruined temple for shelter.
He digs up ginseng, earns money writing letters, and studies hard.
The second branch thinks cutting him out of the family tree will cut off his future, too?
What a joke.
County examinations, prefectural examinations, academy examinations, provincial examinations, metropolitan examinations, palace examinations
He fights his way through them all and makes it straight to the imperial court.
Years later, the people who once abandoned him kneel in a crowd outside the Grand Secretariat’s residence:
“Please let us welcome you back into the family...”
Zhou Xingyuan stands with his hands behind his back and gives a quiet laugh:
“What does your Zhou family have to do with me?”
