Having lost his father at age three and with his mother remarried, he was originally an orphaned child abandoned by the clan. Yet under the ironclad rule of 'better shortchange outsiders than shortchange clansmen,' the entire village scrimped and saved on food and clothing to send him alone into the schoolroom. In this era where human life is as cheap as grass, what he lifted up was not a book, but the lives of his entire clan. When knowledge became the only weapon to break the cycle of reincarnation, he carried blood and grace upon his back, stepping up step by step onto that road capable of rewriting the destiny of the entire clan—the imperial examination path to glory.