After dying, Yin Nanping opened his eyes in a place that was both strange and familiar. After a little thought, he realized he had transmigrated, and into the body of a rural scholar whose mother had just died.
In his previous life, he streamed in front of a live audience without knowing whether it was day or night. After doing that for a long time, he finally met his heroic end, dying suddenly on stream in front of countless viewers.
With a second chance at life, he was determined to lie flat, eat his fill, and wait for death. This time, he absolutely wouldn't make the same mistake again! With the assets his predecessor had left behind, making ends meet wouldn't be a problem. Farming and living by the rhythms of sunrise and sunset sounded like a wonderful life.
Just as he thought that was how he would spend the rest of his days, he happened to hear that a wealthy family in town was seeking a live-in son-in-law. He made up his mind and volunteered at once. Was life as a farmer not comfortable? Of course it was, but marrying into the family was simply a better deal: three meals a day guaranteed, a lifetime free of worries, and every day spent fussing over his sweet, delicate wife. Could there be a better option?
Unfortunately, fate had other plans. Less than half a year after the wedding, his wife's family went bankrupt, and he was back at square one. Now he had to support not only himself, but also his delicate husband and his husband's younger brother. All he wanted was to lie flat and waste away, so why was that so hard?
His wife was delicate and needed money. His brother-in-law was studying and needed money. Food, drink, and every other necessity for the whole family cost money. Fine, then. He'd return to the family business: trading. It brought in money fast.
But it seemed Heaven was deliberately working against him. With no connections in the business world, he was framed. Officials and merchants were colluding in ways that were truly outrageous. Fine, so he needed to be an official? Just a civil servant, right? He'd take the exam!
The later chapters involve the imperial examinations.
Theme: The road may be long, but what matters is having the resolve to keep going.
"It's because of the village chief's inconvenience" that the author was greatly troubled~ coercion [comparison]
"The scholar who passed the exam the year before last" gave the author a big bug~ Yin Nanping passed the examination as a scholar at 14, and he was 1 year younger than 19 Jinduoyin. This means that Yin Nanping is now 18, and he was 16 the year before he turned 18. The time here does not match that of the scholar at 14.
Isn't it right to describe a potbellied person?
You can work hard, author