The light on the meridian-testing stone flowed backward, and fifteen-year-old Gu Changyuan was publicly declared to have "crippled meridians."
No one knew that this good-for-nothing was the last survivor of the Gu family, wiped out in a single night seven years ago. He carried a marriage contract bearing the name of Shen Tingxue, the young mistress of Listening Snow Manor.
Even fewer knew that an ancient sage of calligraphy, sharp-tongued as ever, had awakened inside the brush at his waist, its tip crushed under someone's foot.
"Use me to copy books. A cultivation method that takes others a month to master will take you just one copy."
And so, the menial servant with crippled meridians entered the library.
The whole manor laughed at him for doing the lowliest work, but stroke by stroke, he copied the entire library into his mind.
Use characters as talismans, and the brush as a sword.
He thought she had long forgotten their engagement.
She thought he remembered nothing.
Then, three years later, the clan elders pressured her to marry, and the young master of the Heavenly Sword Sect arrived to ask for her hand
"The young mistress has no betrothal, does she?"
"As it happens, I do."
The menial servant with crippled meridians slapped the yellowed marriage contract onto the table:
"Gu Changyuan, eldest son of the Gu family, has come to honor the betrothal and marry into the Shen family."
[Good-for-Nothing's Comeback | Spring and Autumn Brush Golden Finger | Betrothal and Matrilocal Marriage | Swordsmanship Through the Written Word | Powerful Duo]
