The Fake Bastard Son of the Jia Family

It's truly difficult for Jia She's illegitimate son to rise in the family. The pressure of mourning leaves him half-buried, and the distinction between legitimate and illegitimate children means he's practically just a head above water. To get ahead, he'd have to get rid of Jia She, Jia Zheng, and Jia Lian; otherwise, he'd benefit from the Jia family's success but suffer the consequences when things go wrong.

Distinguishing between legitimate and illegitimate children, maintaining a proper hierarchy, and prioritizing filial piety above all virtues.

Do you accept the two stone lions at the entrance of Ningguo Mansion?

The protagonist is also quite extraordinary. He's betrayed by Feng Jie's servants for selling soap, by Jia Yun for selling fake jade, by Jia Baoyu for writing a romance novel, by Jia Qin for insidious schemes involving Xue Pan, and by Jia Rong for making white powder for Jia Zhen. Although he's been betrayed time and again, he remains unchanged, naive and innocent, always trusting others unconditionally, and always leaving loose ends.

This is even lower status than a son born of a concubine. Even a son born into a powerful family is innocent, but a son born into a brothel has no future in the imperial examinations; his only option is to risk his life on the frontier. This is because the imperial examinations investigate a person's family background and birth mother before acceptance.

Can clever tricks save the Jia family? Even passing the imperial examinations wouldn't save them, unless they gained military power. The Jia family's decline had nothing to do with the family members' moral decay; it was simply because their patron died, and the emperor wanted to weaken the power of the nobility and seize the Jia family's wealth—it was a power struggle between the emperor and the…

This book's style is just like the fictional harem historical novels that were popular a few years ago. The protagonist is betrayed and wronged all the way, which stirs up the reader's emotions, but there is no revenge. This kind of book should be published on TVB or Tomato. Nobody on Qidian likes this type of book.

That's a bit far-fetched. With your dubious origins as an illegitimate son, you would have been killed or dismissed long ago. In ancient times, when the distinction between legitimate and illegitimate children was so important, no matter how clever you were, there were always ways to get rid of you.

Why is everyone rushing to save the Jia family? I don't understand.

I've only read about 70 chapters. This protagonist is somewhat similar to Jia Rui, the protagonist of the author's previous book. He's indecisive and rambling, not decisive or efficient at all. The previous book was already a bit nauseating, and this one seems to be showing similar traits. I barely managed to finish the previous book; if this one is the same, I'll just drop it.