The Top Scholar from a Thief Family

The Top Scholar from a Thief Family Plot:

Chen Mo, the youngest son of a family of thieves, was forced by his father to learn lock-picking since childhood, but secretly read The Analects his sister hid for him every night—he didn’t want to be a “thief” forever. At 18, he snuck off to take the county exam without telling his family and surprisingly became the palace exam top scholar! When the good news reached the thief den, his father chased him with a theft knife, yelling: “Our family has been thieves for three generations—you want to be a ‘top scholar’ and shame us?” But as soon as Chen Mo entered the capital, he stumbled upon officials investigating the “Jiangnan Thief Leader”—his identity as a top scholar became a death warrant for his family. Torn between the new life he dreamed of and the family who raised him, can he protect his loved ones in the gap between light and darkness?