Time-Travel Genius: How a Modern Man Became Ancient China’s Top Scholar!

Modern professor Chen Yong unexpectedly transmigrates into the body of Chen Yong, a down-on-his-luck scholar, and lives with his kind and virtuous wife, Wang Yi'er. Using his modern knowledge, he builds spinning wheels, sells milk tea, and improves papermaking and iron smelting to earn money to pay off debts. He also cleverly foils the conspiracy of the wealthy Li family and joins forces to fight bandits and rescue his wife. He repeatedly triumphs in the imperial examinations, rising from a novice to the top scholar, and in the court, he defeats the powerful Pang family, proposing the "adding sand to relieve famine" and sweet potato cultivation strategies to quell the famine. He finally becomes the first scholar from a humble background to achieve this, returning home with his beloved wife to welcome a new life. However, he then resolves to return to the capital to fight against the scourge of opium.