Chen Ying inexplicably found himself in Jingyang during the first year of Wude, and history began to change because of him. He originally intended to live an idle life as a minor landowner, but the ti
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“Ah…” A long, lingering sigh, heavy with inexpressible sorrow and helplessness. Chen Ying gazed at his reflection in the water basin—a face more delicate and handsome than any ordinary woman's, with fair, fine skin that would drive countless women mad with envy. In his eyes there lingered an indistinct trace of melancholy.
“It’s been half a month since I arrived in this world,” Chen Ying sighed again. Time truly flies.
The young man, whose appearance surpassed even that of a beauty, was named Chen Ying, a native of Wannian County. To put it plainly, Chen Ying had crossed the boundaries of time and awakened in the first year of Wude in the Tang Dynasty (618 AD) under mysterious circumstances—details untraceable and inexplicable. In short, the Chen Ying of later generations now inhabited the body of a Tang Dynasty ink-attendant and scribe.
By sheer coincidence, the original owner of this body was also named Chen Ying. This Chen Ying had been the ink-attendant and scribe to Su Hu, the county magistrate of Wannian. However, in the Tang Dynasty, noble officials prided themselves on emulating the customs of Wei and Jin. The so-called “style of Wei and Jin” was not merely the refined elegance of Tao Yuanming’s “picking chrysanthemums by the eastern fence, idly gazing at the southern mountain,” but also included a certain flagrant unruliness and a penchant for debauchery. Tragically, the body Chen Ying now inhabited was precisely that of a legendary “rabbit boy.” Half a month ag