In his previous life, Cui Ming was a PhD in Chinese Language and Literature from Qingbei University.
In this life, he has transmigrated into a poor family in ancient times:
A kind father, a virtuous mother, a biased grandmother, and two scholar uncles who leech off his parents yet fail the exams every time. Their wives are arrogant and shrewish. The family is dirt poor, and he is only twelve years old and deathly ill.
Cui Ming feels as if the sky has fallen. “Can things get any worse?”
Desperate to escape his predicament, Cui Ming builds a homemade waterwheel. Just as he finally earns a little money, his biased grandmother and two ungrateful uncles haul him into court. But then, by chance, he meets a rich young master, gets out of trouble, and becomes the young master's page.
From then on, his life takes off.
He begins studying at twelve, and in just six months writes countless poems destined to be remembered for the ages, leaving the great poets utterly shattered!
In one year, he masters the classics and histories, leaving the teachers so stunned they drop their teacups!
His commentaries on the Four Books are adopted as official school texts and become models for the imperial exams.
At fourteen, he sits the exams and takes first place in all six rounds, earning a place on the list of successful candidates and a position in the Hanlin Academy.
Of all the world's literary talent, he claims eight out of ten parts for himself.
At thirty, he enters the cabinet as chief minister and pushes through sweeping reforms single-handedly:
He clears and registers farmland, overhauls salt administration, reforms the fire-consumption tax, and repairs the canal system, tripling the court's annual revenue!
He settles the displaced, secures the border, builds roads and bridges, opens canals and dikes, controls floods, and establishes trade routes...
With his own strength, he gives the dynasty another three hundred years of life!
When he stands, the emperor dares not sit. Ministers and officials hold their breath, anxiously hoping: When will the Grand Secretary return to save the realm once more?
And it all began the day Cui Ming took the young master's place in the imperial exams...
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