Imperial Examinations + History + Switched at Birth + Transmigration + Life-and-Death Struggle + Family Life + Slow-Burn + Officialdom
Programmer Zheng Yun dies suddenly overnight and transmigrates into the role of a sacrifice in the Zheng family's scheme to switch babies.
After three of the Zheng family's children died unexpectedly, someone advised them to exchange one life for another.
So the Zheng family switched their newborn fourth son with the Song family's baby, stealing someone else's fate to save their own child.
But the Zhengs were utterly heartless!
After taking someone else's child, they treated him terribly. The original owner endured ten years of abuse, leaving him covered in injuries and sickly, only to be handed a document expelling him from the family. The day the Zhengs' true son returned, he was thrown out in front of everyone.
He returns to Song Family Village in Lin'an County and takes the name Song Yun. His father is Song Laoshi, his mother is Madam Liu, his grandmother is Madam Ding, and he has two scrawny younger sisters.
Because their child was switched, people point fingers at his mother and call her immoral. His father can't hold his head up among the neighbors, either.
His two younger sisters are gaunt and have been bullied since childhood.
With his return, the Song family suddenly finds that the sky has brightened and the world has become a better place.
Drawing on memories of his previous life, Song Yun first improves his family's living conditions, then works hard at the imperial examinations, ultimately rising to the imperial court.
Those who once treated him like a discarded son now wish they could kneel down and slap themselves, begging for his forgiveness.
