Stay Away, Confucians! I Don't Want the Novelists Getting the Wrong Idea

After transmigrating into a family of great Confucian scholars as a descendant of a Second Sage, Meng Xin should have risen to high office and made his name go down in history.

But he discovers that his predecessor was a hopeless student. After eighteen years of studying by lamplight, he has taken the imperial exams nine times and still cannot even pass the lowest level.

The transmigrated Meng Xin is thoroughly ashamed of him. At first, he plans to use his memories from another world to become the top scholar for fun. But after witnessing the terrifying constraints of Confucian rites and rules, he gives up and decides to lie flat.

Confucianism? Whoever wants it can have it.

The School of War? Too much bloodshed. I love peace, so count me out!

Taoism? They spend all day holed up in the mountains. Don't they want to see the bustling world outside?

In the end, Meng Xin chooses the School of Novelists so he can lie flat.

He intends to take it easy, but the runaway success of The Story of the Western Wing opens the door to a whole new world for him.

Even The Story of the Western Wing can be a hit?

Well, I've got even more thrilling stories where that came from!

Journey to the West, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Water Margin, The Plum in the Golden Vase...

The entire literary heritage of five thousand years is in my mind. What have you got to compete with me?

Years later, when Meng Xin has led the Novelists to the top of the world and dominated the Hundred Schools of Thought, all the scholars bow their heads before him, while emperors hurry to greet him barefoot. Countless people are left wondering:

Sage Meng, does that mythical nation with five thousand years of history in your books really exist?

Meng Xin: Of course! That's my homeland.

One day, that homeland will descend, suppress the gods, and liberate this oppressed world...