Three years ago, he was the provincial exam champion, famous for miles around. Three years later, he was the village idiot, drooling as he chased dragonflies with everyone else.
Everyone said Fang Tao was completely finished.
But no one knew that the lingering soul of a Ming dynasty imperial physician lived in his head, calling him an "idiot" every day.
One day, he awakened the Nine-Turn Arcane Art, and the idiot was an idiot no more.
Three acupuncture needles, and an old woman who had been paralyzed for six years was back on her feet.
One casual slap, and decades of chronic leg pain were gone on the spot.
Others couldn't grow a thing in the thirty mu of saline-alkali land east of the village, but he grew translucent "agate tomatoes," each weighing half a jin. Sweet and refreshing with every bite, they were snapped up by the big hotels in the city.
When the village tyrant and his son got jealous and tried to trip him up, he turned the tables with a clever scheme and made them fall into their own trap.
From treating the sick and saving lives to improving the soil, from orchards spanning hundreds of mu to a traditional Chinese medicine wellness center, Fang Tao and a few loyal friends transformed the poor, rugged land of Qingguo Village into a treasure trove of gold and silver.
But in the shadows, Village Chief Feng Jianhuo never stopped scheming.
Deeper still, the heir to a reclusive medical sect was secretly observing his acupuncture techniques.
And a financial siege by the provincial capital's big players was quietly closing in.
The icy CEO Ye Zhen, the feisty childhood friend Su Xiaowan, and the cool-headed physician Shen Qingyi: three women, three tangled relationships, and one former village idiot. How will he fight his way through the encirclement and lead the entire village to become a model village for the province?
He used to be the village idiot. He'll make sure there's not another idiot in the whole village.
