Lin Jian, a middle-aged and overweight high school English teacher with a failed marriage and an unqualified professional title, died suddenly after continuously correcting test papers. When he woke up, he became an alcoholic, gambling, and domestic violence son-in-law during the Tianbao period of the Tang Dynasty.
The beginning is hell: the house is leaking, penniless, the gangsters in the village block the door to collect debts, and the wife is bruised and huddled in the corner, afraid to raise her head. The only golden finger is the "education system" activated in the brain - the high school comprehensive knowledge system. In the Tang Dynasty on the eve of the Anshi Rebellion, this knowledge seemed useless.
It wasn't until he cooked the first meal for his wife that the system revealed its true intention: knowledge is not for exams, but for surviving in any situation and protecting those around you.
A bowl of millet rice, a surname of "Shu", a can of tea named after his wife, and a piece of saponins boiled with knowledge of chemistry. From teahouses in mountain villages to shops in county towns, from being bullied by gangsters to forming a bodyguard, he used business thinking that transcended a thousand years to establish his own industrial territory in the Tang Dynasty. And his wife Shuxiang, who was pulled out of his fear little by little, also grew from an abused victim to a woman who can stand by his side.
When a business rival covets the tea recipe, when the son of the richest man in the county attacks her, when a crossbow arrow in the dark takes away his brother's life - he must transform from a middle-aged man who is accustomed to accepting his fate to a strong man who dares to protect everything.
This is a story about knowledge changing destiny, and it is also a story about redemption and love.
