Book Synopsis
In his previous life, Li Cheng was a PhD in Chinese Language and Literature from a prestigious university. In this life, he found himself reincarnated as a young child from a farming family in the Da Shuo Dynasty—a thatched cottage with a leaking roof, a mother burdened with pregnancy yet still toiling away, an elder brother who foraged for wild vegetables daily, a sister so thin she seemed to be nothing but skin and bones, a father who had failed the provincial exams seven times, and a grandmother who muttered to the ancestral tablets, "My son will surely succeed," in her madness—all while inhabiting this frail eight-year-old body.
Li Cheng clutched the rough earthen bowl filled with vegetable porridge: this reincarnation script was harder to navigate than writing a thesis!
In order to ensure his family had enough to eat, Li Cheng gritted his teeth and accepted a job from the town's wealthy merchant, serving as a companion reader for the inept Young Master. Little did he know that when it came time for the courtyard examination, the young master would become weak-kneed and come up with a devious plan: to have Li Cheng take the exam in his place.
Who would have thought that this eight-year-old child, disguised as someone else, would stir up waves of excitement in the examination hall? Just as he began his studies, he recited "Quiet Night Thoughts" from memory; at eight and a half, he penned "Song of the Wanderer"; and by the age of nine, his poem "Gazing at Mount Tai" left the examiner astonished, exclaiming that a prodigy like him was rare in a thousand years!
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