The Poor Scholar's Rise and Fall: A Legend Forged Through Three Setbacks

After transmigrating to ancient times, he found his family fallen on hard times and nearly became a vagrant with a roof over his head but no land.

The protagonist, Zhao Chuanqi, started "squandering the family fortune" the moment he transmigrated!

He couldn't even look after himself, yet he kindly rescued a mother and daughter.

He used his own arm as bait when fishing!

His land was still mortgaged, but instead of paying off his debts, he only wanted to be an angler!

He let the fish rot before selling them!

He let the tofu go moldy before selling it!

He even boiled the lobsters until they stank before selling them!

He had to build a shed just to farm!

He sliced open every piglet and lamb before raising them, and didn't care how many died!

He poured muddy water into fragrant lard!

He pruned the fruit trees and sold peeled fruit!

He ground mushrooms into powder!

He boiled the wine during brewing and lost most of it!

Other people made money and kept it all to themselves, but when he made money, he went into business with others!

His ways of squandering the family fortune were endless.

And yet, in just three years, he became richer than a nation!

As the saying goes, wealth invites trouble. In the face of power, merchants are nothing but fat sheep!

His entire fortune was seized three times, and three times he rose from being the poorest man in the land to the richest!

The repeated plundering and oppression by the powerful forced him to fight back...