Yang Yuan, a corporate drone, wakes up to find himself in the Great Liang dynasty’s Jinling, where he has become the notorious “Earl of Peace and Ease,” a disgraced wastrel effectively kept under house arrest after his father lost a political power struggle. The original owner drank and indulged himself to excess, then died suddenly, leaving Yang Yuan with an empty, showy earl’s residence, a fierce and sharp-tongued legal wife, a scheming uncle from a collateral branch of the family, and an empty purse.
To make matters worse, in his previous life he was just an ordinary office clerk. Here, he can barely lift a finger or tell one grain from another, his calligraphy looks like chicken scratch, and he knows nothing about the Four Books and Five Classics. His greatest talents are touch-typing and making Excel spreadsheets.
Fortunately, though he is somewhat timid, he is practical enough. Since he can’t turn the world upside down right away, he’ll lie low for now. But his uncle is already at the door, demanding his title, and the household is on the verge of running out of food. The meager “favor stipend” the court provides each month is a drop in the bucket.
At this desperate moment, he suddenly realizes: the gentry and commoners of the Great Liang dynasty… don’t seem to know how to do math!
