Shen Mingwei is the fourth son of the Shen family in a small village in the south of the Yangtze River. The family is poor, has no food to eat, but has a dream of studying for the imperial examination. Fortunately, he became a disciple of the great Confucian scholar. From the county examination to the palace examination, he took one step at a time. Faced with suppression from aristocratic families, fraud in imperial examinations, and frame-ups in the examination room, he relied on his true talent, knowledge and wisdom to overcome difficulties one after another. He became a scholar at the age of fourteen, a scholar at the age of fifteen, and won three prizes in a row at the age of sixteen. He became the youngest number one scholar in the dynasty and started a legendary life.
