A Young Man Teaches the Crown Prince the Art of Insulting People, and the Prince Has No Choice but to Take Him as a Lover

(The plot is well-paced and action-packed throughout. The protagonist is a bottom who loves stirring up trouble, and he's hilarious.) Lin Jiu had terrible luck. Right after finishing the college entrance exams, he decided to go out and relax. But as he passed a building, a box of condoms fell from the sky and killed him. As he took his last breath, he stared at the condoms spilling out of the box, dying with regrets. By a bizarre twist of fate, he transmigrated to ancient times and became a young man with the same name who was about to be castrated and sent into the palace. Determined to save his chances of happiness in the years ahead, Lin Jiu knocked out the eunuch escorting him and made a swift escape. He never expected to stumble straight into the emperor's bedchamber. Seeing the emperor in front of him, dressed in splendid robes, Lin Jiu hurriedly tried to explain himself, claiming to be a scholar. When the emperor asked what school of thought he studied, Lin Jiu replied, “Your Majesty, my ancestor was Zigong. I am a bona fide Confucian disciple.” But the emperor detested Confucianism. Just as he was about to order Lin Jiu's execution, Lin Jiu quickly added, “Your Majesty, the Confucianism I study is different from everyone else's. Today's Confucian disciples have all misunderstood the meaning of the Analects.” When the emperor asked what “Hear the Way in the morning, and die content in the evening” meant, Lin Jiu answered with complete confidence, “It means that if you find out in the morning how to get to someone's house, you can go there in the afternoon and kill them.” The emperor's entire worldview was shattered. Finding Lin Jiu amusing, he spared his life and assigned him to tutor the crown prince in Confucianism. In the end, Lin Jiu failed to teach the Analects and lost his own heart instead. Much later, when someone asked what Shen Zhaonian did all day, Shen Zhaonian fell silent for a moment and replied, “Clean up after my wife and apologize to people for her.”