“As the only person in the entertainment industry to earn the jinshi degree and win a top literary award, what are your thoughts?”
“My thought is: read more books.”
“As a literary master, you're also skilled in calligraphy, know music, can compose and sing, and are top-notch at all of it. How do you do it?”
“The Six Arts of a Gentleman are rites, music, archery, charioteering, calligraphy, and mathematics. Isn't it perfectly normal for a scholar like me to know them?”
Tang Yuan transmigrates to a parallel world with no Yuan, Ming, or Qing dynasties, but his past is full of scandals, leaving him unable to get by in the entertainment industry.
Luckily, he gets a Bookworm System, which grants him all kinds of reading-related rewards whenever he completes a mission.
Photographic memory, speed-reading, a silver tongue... Wait, is that “silver tongue” really appropriate?
Never mind. First, he'll take the imperial examinations and earn a title. If he can't make a living with his looks, surely he can become a literary master!