Do People Around Here Listen to Me or Not?

[Transmigration + hilarious comedy + power struggles + unexpected contrasts + peerless master]

One morning, Zhang Tiezhu, owner of a Northeast Chinese barbecue shop, woke up as the most miserable puppet emperor of the Great Yue Dynasty. The Empress Dowager ruled from behind the curtain, powerful ministers ran the court, and the previous owner of his body had been little more than a decorative figure clocking in for work. Then a Northeastern girl who had transmigrated too showed up, leaving him completely baffled.

How could he put up with that? Zhang Tiezhu slapped the dragon throne and spoke in a thick Northeastern accent: “What’s with all of you? You putting on a show for me or what?”

The Empress Dowager scolded him? He shot back, “You’re a toad with a feather duster stuck up its backside, pretending to be some exotic bird!” Then he even threw in a couple of hearty slaps. A powerful minister gave him a hard time? Zhang Tiezhu launched into a rapid-fire stream of folksy banter: “You’re flapping your gums at me, huh? What is this, practicing Snake?”

The ministers were left utterly bewildered, breaking into cold sweat as they wondered if His Majesty’s “ancient elegant language” was so profound that it must contain the ultimate art of imperial rule! From then on, Northeastern dialect became the palace’s highest form of encryption.

That is, until the Empress Dowager staged a coup, with blades at Zhang Tiezhu’s throat. He glanced at the eunuch beside him, who had always kept his head bowed and acted meekly. “Eunuch Cao, quit hiding. Put on a show for them!”

Only then did the court realize that the old eunuch who had smiled obsequiously even while holding the emperor’s spittoon was, in fact, the greatest master under heaven.

As Eunuch Cao wiped the blood from his hands, he gave the terrified ministers a kindly smile. “My lords, His Majesty just said we should roll up our sleeves and get to work. I’m hard of hearing, so I missed the rest. Did he say we eat after the work is done, or that once the work is done… we send you on your way?”

Watch the toughest emperor, alongside the mightiest eunuch, use the most down-to-earth dialect to straighten out the most chaotic court!