I woke up reborn in an ancient manor.
My birth mother, dressed plainly in a hairpin and homespun clothes, turned out to be a concubine in a powerful household, left to eat cold leftovers.
Jia Dan nodded deeply: Perfect. I can make a thriving life for myself in the countryside.
Scheming in a powerful household and the like just isn't for a science guy.
But... when I turned sixteen, I was told my biological father was Jia Zheng, and that my background was from Dream of the Red Chamber...
Where are the promised farming and riches?
Dear old dad, please don't go and get yourself killed, okay?{{{(>_