A Step to Nanzhou

Zeng Shenbin was born into a poor family in a southern fishing village. Gifted, he skipped two grades and was admitted to the county's top high school, but just as he was about to rise above his circumstances, he was framed by the deputy county magistrate's son for 'peeping at a female teacher bathing' and unjustly expelled. With his path to education cut off, his sister was forced to marry into the enemy's family to protect him, his parents died, and the family fell into decline. Returning to the fishing village, he resolved that 'if the road is cut off, find another way.' He revived his ancestral medical skills, opened a medicinal herb garden, offered free consultations, and through his genuine abilities in managing dragon boat race accounts and overseeing ancestral rites, he cleared his name and gradually earned the trust of his clan. — Description from novelcodex.org