Captured from the Start, I Slaughtered My Way Through with Poetry

Yang Xiaobai spent eight years playing bit parts in Hengdian. One day, he wakes up as a prisoner at the end of a flourishing dynasty, being taken to the Xie family's private mine.

Everyone else in modern clothes riding in the same cart is dead. Only he survives, thanks to his period-drama costume and his talent for playing the fool.

At the mine, he pretends to be an idiot, memorizes the black accounts, and recites poetry. A single line from Ascending Stork Tower breaks the former dynasty's literary qi illusion, while a children's song lets him sing the embezzlement accounts to the censor investigating the case.

When the Xie family tries to silence him, he brings the private mine case to the capital.

When the capital wants him dead, he uses poetry and ledgers to

fight his way, step by step, into the halls of power and the jianghu.

A bit-part actor who can't fight, he dares to use all the poetry in his head to sing this man-eating golden age back to prosperity.