Scapegoat? He's the Top Scholar!

Fang Qingxue takes Lin Yi's side when he is accused of stealing dark arts. He has just arrived in the Da Yan dynasty, a world where the literary way rules over everything, and he has been made the scapegoat for the theft. He answers the charge with poems he learned in his previous life. Reciting them wakes a literary power in him, and with Fang Qingxue's help the accusation is dropped and he is admitted to Pingzhou Academy. At the academy a crisis over sorcery breaks out, and Lin Yi ends up in a contest of wits with Zhong Zizheng. He gets the better of his rivals there and moves on to the imperial examination. During the examination he picks up signs of a plot inside the court. He works with the emperor to bring the corrupt officials to account and sets his sights on first place. He also begins pushing for changes to how the literary system is run.