Notes on Mountains and Rivers

He was a food delivery rider who had changed careers after being laid off in middle age, when a car running a red light sent him flying.

When he opened his eyes, he had become a sixteen-year-old who was blind from birth. His father had broken his leg, his younger sister was coughing blood, the family owed two taels of silver, and their creditor would come knocking in three days.

In this world, reading and writing are forms of cultivation: pronounce a character correctly, and the heavens and earth respond; recite a poem correctly, and your words become law.

His mind held decades of knowledge from another world, yet now he could not even write his own name.

Starting with "one plus one equals a field," this poor village boy would read the entire realm of Wenhua as his own book.