Notes on Mountains and Rivers

He was a food delivery rider who had switched careers after being laid off in middle age, when a car running a red light sent him flying.

When he opened his eyes, he had become a sixteen-year-old who was blind from birth. His father had a broken leg, his little sister was coughing up blood, the family owed two taels of silver, and the creditor would come knocking in three days.

In this world, studying and literacy are a form of cultivation: read a character correctly, and Heaven and Earth respond; recite a poem correctly, and your words become law.

His mind holds more than a decade's worth of knowledge from another world, yet he can't even write his own name.

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