A Poor Scholar in the Ming Dynasty

A clap of thunder, and when he wakes, he’s in a different body.

This is no age of chaos. It’s the fifth year of the Chenghua reign in the Great Ming, an era when a hundred flowers bloom.

His family, however, leaves something to be desired...

A lazy, gluttonous father who has dreamed of passing the imperial examinations all his life, yet is still only a licentiate after half a lifetime; a gentle, virtuous mother from a wealthy family; a kind grandmother; a scheming younger sister who gives him psychological scars; a bunch of snobbish uncles; and more cousins than he can count on both hands.

That year, Wan An enters the Grand Secretariat, while Liu Jian and Li Dongyang are still idling away in the Hanlin Academy, and Xie Qian returns from failing the provincial examinations to devote himself to his studies.

From this year on, the Great Ming gains a young man determined to succeed in the imperial examinations.