Su Jing, a graduate student in the Department of Modern History, once traveled through time and became a poor scholar in a remote mountain village in the Liang Dynasty.
The family is poor, the widowed mother is sick, and there is a younger sister who is so hungry that she looks sallow and skinny. The whole village laughed at him: "Just you? You still want to take the imperial examination?"
Su Jing opened the borrowed old book and smiled slightly - what he had in his mind was the wisdom accumulated by five thousand years of civilization. From the county examination to the prefecture examination, from the township examination to the general examination, he was victorious all the way, using the most hard-core knowledge to slap everyone who looked down upon him in the face. On the day when he won the first prize, all the civil and military officials in the dynasty were asking: Who does this dark horse belong to?
At the same time, an unexpected love comes quietly - is she the daughter of the chief minister of the dynasty, or is she the stubborn proprietress in the tavern? Red sleeves add fragrance, life and death are promised, in the turbulent court, Su Jing wants to rewrite the history of Daliang's century-old monopoly by the powerful as a member of a poor family.
This road, from scholar to powerful minister, will take him twenty years. The light of the sword and the shadow of the sword, the love between children and the long-lasting love between children, let's see how the children from a poor family stir up the world!