Shen Yan, a student at the bottom of the county school who failed the exam six times in a row, faced a dead end at the beginning when his fiancée came to break off the engagement and his creditors snatched the ancestral "recommendation letter for junior students". Without a letter of recommendation, he will completely lose his qualifications for the imperial examination.
In a desperate situation, Shen Yan found that he could actually see the "marking comments" left on the books by previous examiners! It turns out that the imperial examination is not about comparing who can memorize more books, but about who can accurately hit the examiner's scoring points.
In order to save his family business, Shen Yan made a gambling agreement and relied on a minimalist "syllogism answer template" to defeat the geniuses of the family in three pages of the annual exam and win the first place in a counterattack. However, his opportunistic "question maker" style also completely angered the orthodox scholars. Faced with the upcoming county examination and the joint strangulation of aristocratic families, Shen Yan looked at a group of poor students from poor families who were struggling to study around him, and decided to do something big - to found the first cram school in Dajing, and bring the mud-legged people to take over the entire court!
