Shouldering Five Families, the Counterfeit Scholar Becomes the Real One

Top-tier martial artist Lin Xiao transmigrates into the Great Zhou dynasty, awakening as the dissolute son of Lin Yuan—the realm’s only prince of a different surname. But his new life is shattered by a sudden conspiracy. The Crown Prince orchestrates a scheme to thrust the utterly illiterate Lin Xiao into the position of top scholar, ensuring rumors spread like wildfire through the capital. All of society becomes convinced that Lin Xiao bribed the examiners to steal the imperial title. With the palace examination looming just three days away, the entire court and countless scholars eagerly await his exposure before the emperor—an outcome that would bring annihilation upon the Prince of Yong'an's household. As the threat of extinction closes in, Lin Xiao's five beautiful, widowed sisters-in-law make a desperate decision: each offers to marry him, mobilizing their respective family connections to hold the line until Prince Lin Yuan returns from the border. Seizing the chaos, the ambitious Second Prince arrives with troops to force a marriage, aiming to tear apart the Lin family and seize both the sisters-in-law and the princely legacy. Faced with the Crown Prince's trap and the Second Prince's open coercion, Lin Xiao decides he has endured enough. They think he has no learning—and no strength to fight back. Watch as Lin Xiao rises to overturn the world and rewrite the fate of everyone around him.