My Merit System is Too Righteous

Ouyang Rong, a modern postgraduate exam-taker, plunged into a well and woke up in a bizarre ancient world. His new companions? A mad monk, a sore-ridden Taoist, and a mute girl – all residents of what he thought was a 'Pure Land' but quickly realized was a mental asylum! Just when he thought things couldn't get stranger, he discovered he wasn't just transmigrated; he was Ouyang Lianghan, a celebrated 'gentleman scholar' and newly demoted county magistrate. And with this new identity came a mysterious Merit System that demanded he act... 'righteously'. Now, faced with a catastrophic flood threatening his new county and a court full of cunning schemers, Ouyang Rong must decide: play the saint and save a world he never wanted, or find a way back home, even if his system insists on making him the very thing he despises – a true gentleman.