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Chu Ci was a high school teacher. One day, while chasing his students in an internet café, he accidentally stepped into an uncovered manhole and—without warning—time-traveled.
His new home in this era was dirt poor, and the body’s original owner was a frail Xiucai (a scholar who had passed the county exam). If he wanted to support his family, the only thing he could do was return to his old profession—teaching.
Later, whenever the new generation of officials in the Great Wei Dynasty mentioned Chu Ci, they would tremble all over, because Teacher Chu had a famous saying:
“When students fail to learn in class, it’s usually because they’re misbehaving. They must be moved with emotion and guided with reason.”
Content Tags: Time Travel, Growth and Advancement, Imperial Examination, Court Politics
Keywords: Main Characters — Chu Ci, Kou Jing
Supporting Characters — The Chu Family
Others — Upcoming work Traveling Through Time to Manage the Household
One-Line Summary:
If you don’t listen in class, you might as well die.
Work Review:
Chu Ci, the top Chinese teacher at City A High School, time-traveled overnight and found himself in an unfamiliar dynasty, becoming a young scholar who had just been falsely accused.
His new household was impoverished, and the scholar had no other skills to rely on. Thus, Chu Ci could only take up his old craft again and step once more onto the glorious path of teaching and nurturing others.
Heh—tremble, students!
The story unfolds with tight pacing and lively, humorous writing, vividly depicting how a young Xiucai of the Great Liang Dynasty rose through the imperial examinations, then devoted himself to teaching and educating, eventually becoming a great scholar of his era.
The characters are full of life and emotion, and their laughter, anger, and tears reveal the depth of ordinary human philosophy.
