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Lin Xiaoman, a modern history student, travels back to an ancient poor farmer's family. His mother Zhao, widowed young, pins all her hopes on him—selling everything, even her dowry silver hairpin, to send him to school for the imperial exam. But Lin is fixated on their barren field: he wants to use modern agricultural knowledge like hybrid rice and soil improvement to feed the village, not get stuck in rigid exam essays. Until one day, he finds an old book in his mother's chest: a torn *Four Books for Women* with bloodstains from the beating Zhao received decades ago for secretly reading. Turns out, Zhao's "family honor" was never about him becoming an official—it was about fulfilling her own lost dream of getting an education...
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