[Transmigration | Scholar-born son of a concubine | Play the pig to eat the tiger | Court intrigue | Historical web novel for men | One female lead]
After transmigrating into another body, Shen Kui becomes the lowest-ranking illegitimate son of an eighth-rank county magistrate, born to a servant girl.
The moment he opens his eyes, he finds himself in a dilapidated woodshed with a leaking roof and a chipped bowl clattering nearby. His birth mother is being publicly humiliated by a spiteful concubine at the door. His life begins in a quagmire.
Though he carries the savvy of a modern man when it comes to business and dealing with people, his body has been frail and sickly since childhood. He keeps every sharp edge hidden, deliberately acting timid and weak while concealing his brilliance behind his eyes.
The legitimate sons of the household bully him without restraint, and the clan members look on coldly. Everyone assumes this frail child is destined to spend his whole life at the bottom, trampled by others.
No one realizes that this gaunt, seemingly hopeless boy has already set his sights on a goal.
He will lie low and study hard through more than a decade of cold, lonely nights, then amaze everyone in the imperial examinations and make the list of successful candidates.
The Shen family members who once held themselves above him will humble themselves and come begging at his door for him to return to the clan.
Having broken free of his birth family’s constraints, he enters officialdom, where powerful clans clash and princes scheme against one another.
With the lowly background of a poor family’s illegitimate son, Shen Kui plots his every step. He appears mild-mannered and restrained, skilled at hiding his talents, while inwardly he is calculating and deeply shrewd.
He rises from a low-ranking functionary to the heights of power. Once the clan’s discarded child from the quagmire, he finally establishes himself at court and takes control, earning his long-awaited vindication.
It's super good-looking, but the Chen family in it feel very bad. The protagonist must prevent them from having a good ending. It's rare for such a bad person to have such a cruel heart. He must be beautiful so that they don't end well.
The author writes very well, and the characters are well portrayed. I feel sorry for the original owner, and I don't know how she has lived for so many years. There is also Liniang, this woman also has a hard life, but she is also smart, and she is able to keep her child alive, but the child suffers with her.
It's pretty cool. Evil people will be punished.
Good-looking, good-looking and wonderful
It can still be written. I feel that the characters are well drawn and everyone has their own story. This is better, unlike some writings where every character is dry and boring to watch.