They Called Me a Pauper, Then the Nation Revealed My True Identity

On a forced blind date, Chen Zhe, a quiet scientist with a modest 5k salary, is brutally shamed by a viral internet celebrity. When he buys his father a modest Mercedes, she twists it into a national scandal, branding him a corrupt leech. The public unleashes a furious witch hunt, cyberbullying him, and even physically assaulting his vulnerable parents. What no one knows is that Chen Zhe is the Dragon Kingdom's SSS-level secret: a dying academician whose relentless work on lithography machines, third-gen aircraft carriers, and quantum mechanics is literally killing him. He's the hidden architect of every national triumph. As the furious mob demands his ruin, the world is about to discover the earth-shattering truth: their \"corrupt pauper\" is the nation's greatest, unacknowledged hero. But will this ultimate vindication come in time, or will he fall before the very people he sacrificed everything to protect?