“Don’t talk to me about princes and ministers. I just want to brew good liquor!”
Shen Yi, a modern bartender, transmigrates by accident to the war-torn Great Liang dynasty, where he becomes a “stick husband” about to be sold into forced labor. From the start, he has only his silver tongue, a wife he picked up for next to nothing, and half a sack of moldy sorghum.
Other people who transmigrate get a System and powerful gear from the start. His only golden finger is a head full of “unorthodox ideas” that nobody believes in.
Creditors bang on his door, bullies demand their money, and in these chaotic times, even a full meal is hard to come by.
But Shen Yi realizes that although the world is rotten, its people aren’t beyond saving. There’s the timid wife who saves him a meal, the simple-minded brother who takes a knife for him, and the old woman who’d rather starve than sell her daughter...
“Fine. This world may be beyond saving, but these people aren’t.”
So he rolls up his sleeves and gets to work: brewing liquor, reclaiming land, building an estate, and protecting his neighbors. He goes from a “stick husband” who only wants to survive to a beacon of hope in a world gone mad.
He has no golden finger, only a sincere heart.
This is a story about ordinary people lighting the way for one another in the darkest of times.
Lighthearted and healing, with laughter and tears.
