You’re Fighting Over the Compensation? I Become a Poet After the Family Split, So Why Are You Crying?

[Transcribing classics + alternate history + court intrigue] Chen Yuan, a PhD in Classical Chinese literature, stayed up all night writing his dissertation and died suddenly. When he opened his eyes, he had somehow transmigrated to the Great Xia Dynasty, into a poor family. His father had just died, and his grandfather was already trying to take the ten taels of condolence money to pay for his cousin’s schooling, forcing him to become an apprentice and support the whole family. Put up with this humiliation? No way! Chen Yuan split from the family on the spot and struck out on his own! To make a living, he disguised himself as a servant and slipped into a Qinhuai poetry gathering. His “Ode to the Goddess of the Luo River” stunned the crowd and set the whole event ablaze. The hall was packed with young scholars, all too ashamed to show their faces. The education commissioner was so stunned he couldn’t speak. From then on, a legend arose in Yingtian Prefecture. Great Xia gained a Poet Immortal. And the world gained a Sage of Letters!