The Great Song’s weakness and poverty were deep-rooted. Cao Tun was selfish and cold, never intending to fret over the country or the people. He only wanted to be a comfortable scholar-official so his family wouldn’t have to suffer with him.
Then, his aunt, Empress Cao, told him she was actually his mother and the current Emperor was his father. She told him to clean himself up and enter the palace to become the Crown Prince.
Ah, so my surname is Zhao? Doesn’t that mean the mess of this “Lame Song” is now my responsibility?
Cao Tun… no, Zhao Tun, glanced at the “Literary Titan Group” eyeing him from behind. Muttering “transmigration can’t save the Lame Song,” he flipped over like a salted fish and went back to lying flat.
Until one day, Zhao Tun discovered that his brother-in-law, Di Zheng, and his young uncle, Cao You—who didn’t exist in history—were also transmigrators.
He silently shook the salt off his body and struggled to get up.
To commemorate the bouquets he had offered at the tombs of Xin Qiji and Yue Fei in his previous life, Zhao Tun decided to pull himself together and try to stand against the Literary Titan Group of the imperial court.
Notes:
1.
Male protagonist romance; if you don’t like it, don’t read. There are only three transmigrators in this story: the protagonist Zhao Tun and his two “golden thighs” (???). This is an ensemble piece leaning towards daily life; the writing style is colloquial and not historically rigorous.
2.
The Song Dynasty figures and the era itself in this story have extremely strong historical limitations. Readers who have a favorable impression of the Song Dynasty or any of its famous figures will likely feel strong psychological discomfort; please enter with caution.
3.
Due to the constraints of the era, the protagonist needs to write poetry. However, the author is useless and cannot write classical poetry. For original poems attributed to the protagonist in the plot, the author will select relatively obscure poems and pretend the protagonist wrote them; the sources will be marked in the author’s notes.



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