My father is the literary patriarch of the Great Song!
My mother is a daughter of the prominent Xue family!
My eldest brother passed the jinshi examination!
My second brother passed the jinshi examination!
My third brother passed the jinshi examination!
So isn't it perfectly reasonable for me to coast through life?
And even if not, surely I could use my father's fame to marry into a rich family and live off my wife?
A veteran office drone dies of exhaustion and is reborn as Ouyang Xiu's youngest son. Ouyang Bian decides he'll never work hard again.
But Ouyang Bian soon discovers, to his dismay, that even with Ouyang Xiu's salary, his family can't afford a house in Bianjing!
So little Ouyang Bian has no choice but to get to work...
