Prodigy from a Humble Family: Even the Top Scholar Calls Me Senior Brother

Reborn as the son of a fabulously wealthy family, Chen Chuan is happily lying flat and doing nothing when his father gets on the wrong side of the powerful and the family goes bankrupt overnight! The five-year-old tot drags his sickly mother along as they make a miserable move to his aunt’s home in the countryside. His aunt’s family? Mean! His cousin? A good-for-nothing! Mealtimes? They feast on braised pork and brag, while he and his mother crouch in a corner with watery wild-vegetable gruel. Chen Chuan, a former literature PhD, is furious: “How dare you bully us? Knowledge is power!” When his cousin stumbles while reciting the Analects, Chen Chuan quietly supplies the next line! At a banquet of renowned scholars, his cousin puts on a show by reciting from memory? Chen Chuan fires off three questions that shake the whole room! His aunt jumps up and curses him as a burden. Chen Chuan puts his hands behind his back: “Don’t look down on a poor young man!” You think I’m in your way? Just wait until I pass the imperial exams at the top of the class and see who’s worried then! His comeback through the imperial examinations begins. Once a “burden,” now a ladder to the clouds!