Lin Shouzheng opens his eyes to find himself the discarded son of the Marquis of Anguo's household. His stepmother accuses him of stealing the Old Madam's jade Buddha. Struck from the family genealogy and exiled to the northern frontier, he neither cries nor makes a fuss. He signs the severance document and leaves without looking back.
He takes only two things with him: the newly bound Model Teacher for All Ages System and a portable academy, stocked with ten thousand books, a spirit spring that purifies the bones, and time that moves ten times faster. It has only one rule: every student he teaches repays him a hundredfold.
On the road to exile, he saves Princess Zhao Qingyuan from an assassination attempt and is invited to teach at her residence. From then on, all he wants is to teach in peace: teaching servant girls to read, poor students to do accounts, bandits to farm, and orphans from the border army to box. He shares pinyin, punctuation, and mathematics, along with the Five-Animal Exercises, soap, and Drunken Immortal Wine.
While others who transmigrate are busy fighting for the throne, he only competes for a teaching platform three feet wide. By the time his students fill the court and even the emperor has to give him some respect, the world finally understands: from the borderlands to the imperial court, peach and plum blossoms fill the land, and they're all his students.
"The prime minister governs one dynasty. The teacher guides ten thousand generations."
