Modern history PhD Wang Yang accidentally crosses over to the Yongming era of the Southern Qi dynasty. At a moment of life and death, he impersonates a scion of the top aristocratic family, the "Langya Wang Clan", and relying on his thorough understanding of the institutional codes and aristocratic systems of the Wei, Jin, Northern and Southern Dynasties, he successfully bluffs the border army to escape safely. To gain a foothold in troubled times, Wang Yang deploys strategies and acts chivalrously, rescuing the soldier-household father and daughter Hei Han from the crisis of usury by powerful gentry, thereby winning a loyal servant. He then uses poetry, prose, and eloquence to befriend Yue Pang, the son of a vice-governor, and Xie Xinghan, the noble daughter of the prime minister. In the dispute of the Jingzhou official academy, Wang Yang uses the shocking and unconventional evidential research method of Han and Song learning to demonstrate that the Ancient Text Shangshu is a forged book, shocking pedantic scholars, making his name renowned in Jiangling, and winning the appreciation of Xiao Zixiang, the Prince of Badong.