A PhD in history awakens one day to find himself reincarnated as Shen Jin, a six-year-old boy from the Shen family in the Great Xia Dynasty. The family's third branch lives in desperate poverty, with barely anything to their name. Armed with the vast knowledge he acquired in his previous life, Shen Jin refuses to accept his fate. Though still a young child, he resolves to fight for a better future. With the support of his grandfather, parents, and relatives from the first and second branches of the family, he gradually embarks on the imperial examination path, determined to rewrite the destiny of his entire clan.