The Laid-Back Tea Scholar: A Master of Both Letters and Arms Who Shakes the World

While others travel to ancient times to fight for power and grovel before the powerful, I, Qin Chen, have at my fingertips five thousand years of Chinese poetry, mathematics, medicine, and the entire heritage of Chinese civilization. I opened a teahouse because all I want is to take it easy. The chancellor comes to make trouble? One ancient poem is enough to make him bow his head and submit. Talented scholars from Southern Chu challenge me to a literary duel? I crush them with five-element couplets and timeless masterpieces, making them pay a million in grain and warhorses. Powerful clans hoard grain and force their way into the palace? I turn locusts into food and introduce new laws, using a set of policies for the people to overturn the aristocracy’s foundations. The empress, the princess, and even a foreign empress all want me to stay by their side as an official? Qin Chen lifts his robe to reveal a chiseled eight-pack and smiles faintly: “Even a dog hates being an official. I’ll wield Chinese civilization like a blade and reshape this savage land, restoring the full glory of China’s golden age. First, I’ll make sure the whole world understands the spirit of Yan and Huang!”