A Comic Artist's Everyday Life in Ancient Times

After having his manga canceled time and again, young manga artist Liang Yu transmigrates into the eldest son of a poor scholar in ancient times. Looking at the blank manga market of the past, Liang Yu is thrilled to make a name for himself. Liang Yu: How about a cultivation manga with a good-for-nothing hero whose engagement gets broken off? Bookshop owner: The character designs (big-eyed, cute girls) are weird, and the plot is over-the-top. Not interested. Liang Yu is struck like lightning: Why did it turn out like this! But after getting rejected, he is invited back right away. The courtesan of Yichun Tower: I have a patron who wants a fine painting of Guanyin. Liang Yu: !!! I can't believe that even after transmigrating, I still can't escape drawing fan art to earn money and support my family... By a twist of fate, Liang Yu starts drawing certain palace scenes under a secret identity to earn money and support his family. Little does he know, this is the beginning of his meteoric rise. The dying flame of Liang Yu's manga career blazes to life once more. What? The people of Yangzhou aren't used to reading manga? No problem, we can get them used to it! Well... let's start with a manga newspaper! While Liang Yu is raking in the money from those palace scenes, his adoptive father is busy too. After going through a lot of trouble, Liang Yu finally uncovers the truth: Well, would you look at that! His dad is in pretty much the same line of work! Like father, like son. When the beam is crooked, the rafter will be too! Though his dad really is a good writer... [Next story: Records of a Poor Scholar's Journey into Officialdom by Xiao Taosu. Blurb below] Pei Guanchao dies suddenly the night before the college entrance exam, and years of preparation go to waste. When he opens his eyes again, he isn't in the ICU as he expected, but in a mud-floored hut with a thatched roof. He has become Pei Erwa, a pitiful child in the Great Sheng Dynasty whose father is dead and whose mother has remarried. Before her remarriage, his mother used taking her dowry as an excuse to make off with the last of the family's money, leaving Pei Erwa with only two coarse-grain buns. The compensation money his father earned with his life on the battlefield was taken by his biased grandmother to support her younger son. Pei Erwa never saw a single coin of it. His heartless uncle claims he is taking Pei Erwa in, then moves the whole family into the three grand tiled-roof rooms his father left behind. Meanwhile, his own flesh and blood is thrown out onto the street. In the bitter winter wind, in a shabby hut, Pei Erwa burns with a fever that won't break. On a stormy night, his soul returns to the underworld. * Pei Guanchao goes from being an eighteen-year-old high school graduate to a pitiful six-year-old orphan, Pei Erwa. No father, no mother, no food or drink. Even the place he can call home is one he has to fight the village's stray dogs for. Luckily, Pei Guanchao has no shame. He goes straight to the private school tutor in town and latches on. The old tutor has no wife or children and lives all alone. Pei Guanchao rushes up to him and says: