Kaoting Is Not Confused

Zhu Xi, a master of Neo-Confucianism in the Southern Song Dynasty, was accidentally hit by a landslide when he was 40 years old. When he opened his eyes, he traveled to modern society and became an associate professor of ancient literature at a university. Faced with the modern academic circle of smartphones, social media, academic KPI assessments and paper factories, this ancient great scholar went from being initially shocked and confused to gradually adapting. Finally, relying on his profound classical education, rigorous academic attitude and insights beyond the times, he set off an ideological storm in the academic world. While he was learning to use "takeaway software", he was publishing C-type journals like crazy; while adapting to "subway commuting", he was exposing academic misconduct; while lamenting "why people are so impetuous today", he was making the entire academic world tremble with his true academic strength. When the ancient scholarly spirit collides with the modern academic system, and when Neo-Confucian masters encounter "essay ghostwriting," "academic hilltops," and "the proliferation of water journals," an academic revolution full of humor and irony quietly unfolds. This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.