Told to Ghostwrite a Love Letter, Your Words Bring a Great Scholar to Tears Season 2 (159 episodes)

Gu Ci, a modern PhD graduate in Chinese language and literature, travels through time into an impoverished peasant family in the Great Feng Dynasty. His elders studied hard for half their lives yet struggled to pass the imperial examinations, leaving the whole family surviving on wild herbs and tree bark. To feed his family, he uses his poetic brilliance to help Xue Mingyang, the scion of a wealthy family, out of predicaments. While earning money to improve his household's fortunes, he stays low-key and sharpens his scholarly knowledge. He cares deeply for his sisters, teaching them literacy and protecting their dignity. After entering the academy, he conceals his genius, gradually displaying his true talent in classical exegesis, poetry, painting, and couplets, while resolving feuds among his peers. Bearing the noble ambition of saving the world through learning, he takes firm, steady steps toward the county examination. With his talent and virtue, he warms his family and wins the respect of all, shattering the shackles of poverty through his own effort in an era that reveres scholarship to write an inspiring saga of a young man's rise.

Told to Ghostwrite a Love Letter, Your Words Bring a Great Scholar to Tears Season 2 - Episode 1