Others transmigrate and start out with an overpowered comeback. She transmigrates and starts out facing execution, then spends fourteen years working without pay. It's a spectacular fall from top academic achiever to Journey to the West drudge.
A highly educated scholar, she has to pretend to be a docile little white horse. Afraid Sun Wukong will expose her, she hides her intelligence. Afraid Zhu Bajie will tease her, she can't complain about how awful the dried grass tastes. Afraid Tang Sanzang will misunderstand her, she can only warn him about demons by swishing her tail, pawing at the ground, and nodding frantically.
The Journey to the West is packed with laughs: she's so scared of the Great Roc that she plays dead on the spot, drools over Prince Mo Ang's good looks, kicks Zhu Bajie for stealing melons, and stops her foolish master from doing something stupid. She rants internally but can only let out a dragon's “Awooo!” She's a dragon, yet afraid of roosters; her intelligence is off the charts, yet she has to act like a dumb horse. Even when the Buddha praises her cleverness, she freezes and pretends to be well-behaved.
Sun Wukong saw through her from the start but deliberately lets her keep up the act. Zhu Bajie thinks the horse is temperamental, yet keeps getting woken up by a hoof to the face. Tang Sanzang is compassionate the whole way, never realizing that his mount is a Tsinghua academic ace who can even predict all the usual Journey to the West plot beats in advance.
She takes scholarship seriously and works herself into a frenzy as a drudge. Watch a Tsinghua PhD in history use her brains to stay alive and turn the Journey to the West into the funniest workplace saga on the internet!
