In the 19th year of Jiajing, Shen Qingyun, a graduate student in the history department, traveled through time and became a peasant boy in Hejian Prefecture. He was responsible for the murder of his father. He relied on his gift of photographic memory and familiarity with Ming Dynasty regulations to embark on the road to the imperial examination.
He went from the county examination, the government examination to the hospital examination to pass the elementary and middle school examinations, and was admitted to Yunlu Academy. He met his classmate Ning Jiu (actually the ninth princess Zhu Yunning) who was disguised as a man. The two went from quarreling and fighting to mutual affection.
In the rural examination, Shen Qingyun was amazing with his policy and theory, but was bribed by the governor's son to copy and write the test papers, and his reputation was lost in Sunshan.
He was framed and imprisoned and tortured, but he wrote down the original text and pieced together the evidence in prison.
Ning Jiu runs to the rescue as a princess, and Zhou Zhiruo, who is highly skilled in martial arts, also guards with a sword.
In the end, the Jindian complained about the injustice and the truth came to light. Shen Qingyun moved the Emperor Jiajing with "Ten Articles on the Administration of Officials" in the palace examination, and the emperor selected him as the number one scholar.
After that, he was promoted from Hanlin editor to governor of Zhejiang, where he fought alongside Qi Jiguang against the Japanese and promoted the reform of maritime ban.
Emotionally, he is wandering between the princess Ning Jiu, his childhood sweetheart Su Wan, and Zhou Zhiruo who sacrifices his life to protect each other, choosing between imperial power and love.
The work combines imperial examination counterattacks, misplaced secret love, officialdom games and passionate resistance against Japan, showing the legend of a poor scholar who used knowledge and character to change his life.
Intention: Take the counterattack in the imperial examination as the form, and take knowledge, character, equality and emotion as the core. Love is not driven by profit, nor is it bent by power. What the princess pursues is equal love regardless of status. Su Wanshou
What Hou has is his original intention regardless of gains and losses, what Zhiruo practices is the deep love of protecting each other with life, Xu
What Wan Cheng completes is the meaning of confidant that starts with feelings but ends with etiquette. Several kinds of love lead to the same destination by different paths
——Love is not about possession and attachment, but about mutual illumination and achievement.