Dream of the Red Chamber: Mending the Sky with One Hand

In the fifth year of the Tianyou era of the Han Dynasty, a renowned surgeon unexpectedly transmigrated into the body of Jia Yun, a nobody in the Dream of the Red Chamber. Originally, Jia Yun only wanted to be a wealthy man through his own abilities. Given the chance, he also hoped to flirt with Qingwen and Ping'er, and perhaps even encounter Daiyu and Baochai. But this wasn't the prosperous and romantic Grand View Garden of the Han Dynasty; instead, the world was in turmoil! The Jurchens in Liaodong were eyeing the land covetously, bandits in the northwest were rising up in the chaos, and the White Lotus sect in the southeast was spreading deceitful rumors—the Han empire was already teetering on the brink of collapse. Having been reborn, Jia Yun knew the principle that no egg remains intact when the nest is overturned. But with neither a system nor a powerful backer, only his knowledge and experience, hundreds of years ahead of his time, he had no choice but to pick up his pen and, in a desperate gamble, carve out a bloody path through the imperial examinations! From a child scholar to a licentiate, from a provincial graduate to a tribute student, from a metropolitan graduate to a metropolitan graduate… Jia Yun raced through the ranks, from the periphery of the Grand View Garden straight to the heart of the empire's power. Destroy the Jurchens…