Do I Really Have to Attend Court?

[The entire story is being revised, with major changes to the plot and character settings. It needs to be rewritten.]

Zhou Shu transmigrated.

A native of Great Chu, he suddenly found twenty-six years of memories from a life as someone else flooding his mind.

What was industrial upgrading?

What did “invigorating the country through science and education” mean?

And what on earth was multilateralism?

He should have understood only bits and pieces, yet he readily accepted these memories from “Teacher Zhou, who lived in modern society.” But that wasn’t the point.

After Zhou Shu “returned to life” and looked back over the sixteen years of this body’s existence, he realized something terrifying: Great Chu was doomed.

When the nest is overturned, can any egg remain intact?

To be honest, Zhou Shu considered himself a citizen of Great Chu solely because that was where he currently found himself. Zhou Zixin had only lived for sixteen years, while Teacher Zhou Shu had ten more years of life experience, even without all that knowledge. By comparison, the latter was undoubtedly the one who saw things more clearly.

Oh well… since he was already here, he might as well make the best of it. This decrepit dynasty could be whatever it liked, but he didn’t want to die!

Head pounding, Zhou Shu began his miserable new life.

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The court of Great Chu was far from peaceful. One festering old matter after another had been buried beneath its glittering surface, hidden from the light of day. A group of young people worked day and night, risking their lives as they swept clean, broke through deadlocks, and fought for their lives… The deeper they investigated, the more their hearts sank.

When old injustices go unredressed, who isn’t a pawn?

“It’s not too late to back out now.”

“The players? He doesn’t even have the right to watch the game.”

“Don’t trust your eyes.”

“If I must be a pawn, then I will be the piece that decides the game.”

…

“Zhou Shu, let’s go.”

With his back to the other person, Zhou Shu was silent for a long while before asking, “Is it worth it?”

“Revenge for a great wrong? How could it not be worth it?” He threw back his head and laughed. “They want me to be a pawn, but I’ll shatter this rotten chessboard!”

# Dual protagonists. The hidden plotline will not be depicted directly.

# This isn’t a comedy. I’ll do my best to keep the tone light. It’s a HE about a long-held wish finally coming true.

# The hidden-plot protagonist has a CP, but the main text will not depict their romance. The secondary CP’s romance won’t be written, only its outcome mentioned.

# Zhou Shu is similar to Zhuang Zhou dreaming of becoming a butterfly.

Theme: Feudal decay has no future. Reform and opening up are the right path.