The Nation-Defending Spendthrift

Ding Chen, a down-and-out college graduate who can’t find a decent job, unexpectedly wakes up reborn in a dynasty absent from the history books, the Ji Dynasty. He is reborn as the wastrel son of the wealthy and famous Ding family, but the family fortune has already been squandered, and he is notorious throughout the Ji Dynasty! Ding Chen sets out to turn his terrible reputation around. He writes poetry to stir up a sensation in the Ji Dynasty, and teases the girls. He makes fireworks to woo his goddess and invents miraculous devices that benefit the nation. Ding Hui: “Housekeeper, go fetch a doctor. There’s something wrong with Young Master.” The housekeeper: “Miss, Young Master seems perfectly normal to me!” Ding Hui: “A wastrel who doesn’t waste money? That’s the most abnormal thing of all!”