Insults Make Me Stronger: From the Start, One Poem Leaves Everyone Fuming

Synopsis: With his dying words, “What a magnificent land, yet it has fallen to the foul and barbarous!” Li Ziren detonates his literary palace and returns to three years earlier with Farewell, Yun Jian. In this life, he discovers that insulting people actually boosts his literary qi. Insult a snobbish sister-in-law, literary qi +1! Rebuke a classmate who bullied him, literary qi +10! Curse the invading demon tribes, literary qi +100! While everyone else buries themselves in the Confucian classics, Li Ziren relies on his sharp tongue to sweep across the land. At the entry-level scholar exam, a satirical poem makes an examiner cough blood. At a prefectural banquet, he verbally spars with scholars until half the city’s literati are left reeling. At the border, he curses three thousand demon invaders into retreat, all by himself. Years later, standing at the pinnacle of his literary palace and gazing at the myriad races prostrated before him, he sighs. “It’s not that I want to insult people. It’s just that you lot… really deserve it!”