Becoming a Sage Through Poetry: Who Isn't a Sage These Days?

Chen Huaiyi transmigrated.

His predecessor was falsely accused by his clan of having an affair with his widowed sister-in-law, and now faced the desperate prospect of being cast out, disgraced, and stripped of any future.

Fortunately, this was a world that revered literature and sages above all.

In the ancestral hall, Chen Huaiyi wrote a poem declaring his resolve and appealed to the sage to judge his innocence.

One poem shook the sage.

His unjust disgrace was cleared.

Scholars from academies, the county magistrate, great Confucian scholars, clansmen from across the prefecture, and even noblewomen of the imperial family flocked to him.

Thus, Chen Huaiyi embarked on the path of becoming a sage through poetry.