The disgraced official I took care of was actually Zhu Houcong's childhood friend.

I transmigrated to the Ming Dynasty. I became a member of the lowest rung of society, with a family of seven. "Sell me to a slave trader," I finally decided. Staying here, there was nothing I could do. My family would only continue to starve. If I went to a good family, I could earn money and help them out. In the slave trade, I quickly memorized a complete Thousand Character Classic and was bought into the Lu family as a page for twenty taels of silver. Step by step, through my judgment of the court, the Lu family's power, and my accumulated connections, I climbed to the highest position in the Embroidered Uniform Guard...