[Business War]+[Imperial Examination]+[Overhead]+[Single Female Protagonist/No Female Protagonist]
Lin Yanmo, a doctor of Chinese language and literature, an orphan, died suddenly at two o'clock in the morning while revising his thesis.
When he opened his eyes again, he became the only son of a Suzhou poplin and satin merchant from the Dasheng Dynasty—a cockfighting lackey, a dandy young man who wandered around the streets and could confuse the titles of "University" and "The Doctrine of the Mean".
Faced with three mansions, dozens of servants, and endless pocket money, Lin Yanmo made a decision that went against his ancestors: he would never do anything else in this life.
Listening to books in the teahouse, basking in the sun in the garden, lying on the bed eating melon seeds and reading a storybook - this is the life that people should live. Imperial examination? Fame? It's none of his business.
But as he lay there, he realized something was wrong.
The government came every day asking for "donations", and the eunuch asked for a few hundred taels. My father was forced to make half of his hair gray, and my mother was so tired that she fell ill and was still calculating. No matter how big the Lin family's business is, in the eyes of officials, it is just a piece of fat that can be slaughtered.
That night after turning over the ledgers, Lin Yanmo put the plate of melon seeds on the table and sighed.
It seems that this blessing is not something he can enjoy if he wants to.
Don't know eight-part essay? He has written specialized research papers. Never memorized the Four Books and Five Classics? He has a doctorate in Chinese language and literature and is a guy who eats. God gave him the status of a playboy, but he forgot that he had a whole life's work of a modern scholar in his head.
From the top of the county examination, to the first of the government examination, to the third in the college examination, to the seventeenth in the township examination, to the eighty-sixth in the general examination, to the second and forty-seventh Jinshi in the palace examination - he never thought about honoring his ancestors or leaving a name in history. I just want to stand high enough so that those who have bullied the Lin family can no longer reach me.
