[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-simultaneously-transmigrated-my-cheat-skill-is-m":3,"chapter-simultaneously-transmigrated-my-cheat-skill-is-m-simultaneously-transmigrated-my-cheat-skill-is-m-chapter-18":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Simultaneously Transmigrated: My Cheat Skill Is Myself",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2315273,4528,"Chapter 18: Zhang Jie: Was Di Pangpang Me All Along?","simultaneously-transmigrated-my-cheat-skill-is-m-chapter-18",18,"\u003Cp>“Mr. Li.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Among the crowd, someone recognized Master Li.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Mm.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Master Li gave a slight nod in response.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Mr. Li, please come inside.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The man who recognized Master Li quickly stepped aside to clear a path for him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for why he didn’t ask what Master Li had come for?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had already come right up to the Tiger-Slaying Hero’s line—was he here for anything other than to see the Tiger-Slaying Hero?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After thanking the man, Master Li walked inside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Behind him followed the same group of people from earlier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Whoa! What a mighty giant of a man!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Master Li, entering the crowd, saw the giant surrounded by others, still towering a head above them,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>his muscles knotted like ropes, as if he bore a thousand jin of strength, yet not bulky,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>instead radiating a primal, wild beauty of the Central Plains—he could not help but praise aloud.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those who followed Master Li nodded in deep agreement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They also began to believe, just a little, in the nearly absurd rumor:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If anyone could kill a tiger bare-handed, it had to be this giant before them!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After glancing at the giant, Master Li’s gaze was drawn to the litter carried by several burly men behind him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the litter lay the corpse of a tiger that, even in death, still exuded the aura of the king of beasts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This tiger was several times larger than an ordinary one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If an ordinary tiger weighed five or six hundred jin, this one weighed at least seven hundred jin!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Sss…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What most startled Master Li and those behind him was,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>that the tiger’s head was a bloody, mangled mess,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>as if someone had grabbed its skull and beaten it to death with bare hands!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even the “king” character on its forehead, symbol of its dominion over beasts, was blurred beyond recognition.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Dong! Dong! Dong!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as the crowd, like Master Li, stood stunned, the county yamen’s gong rang out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The County Magistrate arrives!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A specialized yamen runner shouted loudly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Make way! Clear the way!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A squad of runners swiftly parted the onlookers, lining up on both sides.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wen Bin, County Magistrate of Yanggu, walked forward slowly, accompanied by the Assistant County Magistrate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for why the County Commandant, one of Yanggu’s three top officials, was absent?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Commandant was currently leading county soldiers to deal with a massacre at a wild boar village—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>a massacre caused by some fellow whose name he refused to disclose!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“We pay our respects to the County Magistrate!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nearby villagers, seeing this, began to bow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Admittedly, our Great Song is useless at everything, yet tops at handing out money,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>yet because it employs so many officials, its legal system is surprisingly well-developed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Song Dynasty law required officials to be courteous and never harass the common people.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>During interrogations, suspects were only permitted to kneel and weep in remorse\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>after they stubbornly refused to confess and the authorities presented evidence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, ordinary Song citizens, upon seeing the County Magistrate,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>typically only needed to perform a bow or stand respectfully—no kneeling required.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, what the law said was one thing; how it was enforced was another.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Our Great Song’s masters, aside from appeasing the Emperor in Bianjing’s palace,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>when else did they ever care about the Great Song’s laws?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In their eyes, the Great Song’s laws were as useless as Ming Dynasty’s later-issue treasure notes—too stiff even for wiping one’s backside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even though many of these laws were ones they themselves had helped draft…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Heh.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Today, I came because I heard our Yanggu County has produced a Tiger-Slaying Hero—I wished to see him for myself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This is a joy shared by all of you, so no need for formal bows.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wen Bin smiled and waved his hand to stop the crowd’s salutes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This must be the heroic Wu, the one who slew the tiger?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at the giant in the crowd’s center, Wen Bin’s eyes lit up, and he hurried forward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Wu Song, pays his respects to the County Magistrate.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The giant bowed, hands clasped, slightly lowering his body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Clearly, this giant was none other than Wu Song, the famed Tiger-Slaying Hero of Water Margin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, who else but Wu Song, the Second Brother, possessed the brute strength to kill a tiger bare-handed?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hero Wu, no need for such formalities.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wen Bin reached out, gently lifting Wu Song to his feet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Wu Song conversed with County Magistrate Wen,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Master Li, watching the spectacle in the crowd, suddenly heard a voice behind him:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Mr. Li.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Master Li turned and saw his most accomplished student—he smiled and said:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ah, it’s Renjie! You came to join the crowd too?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was Zhang Jie, accompanied by Pan Jinlian and others, arriving upon hearing the news.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yes, Zhang Jie was one of Master Li’s students.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As previously mentioned, Master Li ran a private school in Yanggu County, and Zhang Jie had once studied there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why, then, could a mere Shucai like Master Li run a school\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>that became one of Yanggu County’s most renowned?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>First, because Master Li was courteous and generous, known for his upright character;\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>over the years he ran the school, he never looked down on students whose families were poor and couldn’t pay tuition.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Second, because Master Li truly was learned—he knew the heavens above and the earth below,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and understood human affairs with great acumen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The only pity was his bad luck—he failed the imperial examinations repeatedly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After repeated failures, the naturally easygoing Master Li let go of his ambition and devoted himself fully to education.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Several of Zhang Jie’s senior classmates had already passed the provincial exams, further enhancing Master Li’s reputation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for the Jinshi degree, none had yet achieved it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, competition for the Jinshi was fiercely intense.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ironically, when Zhang Jie first learned Master Li’s real name, he was quite startled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because Master Li’s real name was Li Xiucheng!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He shared the same name as the famed King Zhong of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Zhang Jie had only been mildly surprised at the time, and paid it little mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, the Song Huizong era was nearly seven hundred years before the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>even the grandfather of the grandfather of the grandfather of King Zhong Li Xiucheng might not have been born yet!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Besides, countless people in the world shared the same name.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the twenty-first century, there were over a hundred thousand living men named Zhang Wei alone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(According to the Ministry of Public Security’s 2024 data, over 290,000 people in China are named Zhang Wei.)\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some statistics even suggest the number approaches 300,000.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A name means nothing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Such a lively scene—how could one miss it?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Jie replied with a smile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Renjie was Zhang Jie’s courtesy name.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Traditionally, men received their courtesy name at the Guanli ceremony at age twenty,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>women at the Jili ceremony at fifteen; Zhang Jie was still under twenty, so he shouldn’t have one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Zhang Jie’s father, Master Zhang, had passed away three years ago.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On his deathbed, Master Zhang had summoned Master Li to bestow a courtesy name upon Zhang Jie.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It showed that although Zhang Jie was still underage, he was already capable of managing the Zhang family’s affairs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Who else could there be but Zhang Jie as the only son?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was akin to Emperor Jing of Han deliberately crowning the underage Emperor Wu, Liu Xiao Zhu, before his death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A person’s courtesy name was usually connected to their given name, often serving as its complement or explanation,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>complementing the given name as its outer expression, hence called the “courtesy name,” and falling into three categories:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>First, the given name and courtesy name shared the same meaning, such as Du Fu, whose courtesy name was Zi Mei,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>where “Fu” meant “a term for an elegant man in ancient times”;\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the Northern Song prose writer Zeng Gong, whose courtesy name was Zi Gu, where “Gong” and “Gu” carried identical meanings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Second, they mutually reinforced each other, as with Zhuge Liang, whose courtesy name was Kong Ming; “Liang” and “Ming” were closely related in meaning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Third, they were opposites, such as the Northern Song poet Yan Shu, whose courtesy name was Tong Shu—“Shu” and “Tong” were antonyms;\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>likewise, Zhu Xi, who in the 21st century was nailed to the historical pillory and whose ideas were cast into the trash heap,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>whose given name was Xi and courtesy name Yuan Hui—“Xi” meant brightness, while “Hui” meant dimness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Li Xiucai thought of Zhang Jie’s given name “Jie,” he thought of Di Renjie, who had lived upright and incorruptible, discerning talent and appointing the worthy,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>repeatedly recommending virtuous and capable ministers to the Tang dynasty, achieving remarkable governance,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>widely acclaimed by court and people as “the Tang’s most outstanding minister,” honored as “the one man south of the Big Dipper,”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>especially renowned during Wu Zetian’s reign for his fearlessness in the face of power,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>speaking frankly and urging counsel, becoming the famed chancellor Di Renjie whose name endured through history.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He chose “Renjie” as Zhang Jie’s courtesy name to inspire him with Di Gong’s example.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He hoped Zhang Jie would one day become a just and upright official who spoke for the people.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, this expressed his heartfelt wish for Zhang Jie:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>that Zhang Jie might, like Di Renjie, rise to both military command and civil leadership, attain the highest rank, and fulfill his grand ambitions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One could only say that Li Xiucai had placed great hopes on Zhang Jie.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Jie’s adoptive father, Zhang Dahu, was overjoyed upon hearing this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And so Zhang Jie’s courtesy name was settled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Jie: Di Pangpang is me?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When he first heard Li Xiucai give him this courtesy name, Zhang Jie could only ask:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Where’s my Yuanfang?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Di Pangpang: Yuanfang, what do you think?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>China’s captain Yan Shuangying—no, it was Li Yuanfang, wielding the Youlan Sword and carrying a chain knife:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Your Excellency, this matter is surely suspicious!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hmm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I hear you’ve been studying hard at home these days, preparing for the autumn provincial examination.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Diligent study is good, but you must also relax appropriately—balance and rest are the way to lasting success.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Xiucai lectured earnestly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He knew his student had been frail and sickly since childhood,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and if he kept straining himself, he might shorten his lifespan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, he held great expectations for Zhang Jie,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>hoping this gifted student would fulfill his own unachieved dreams of passing the imperial exams and becoming a virtuous official!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I humbly accept your teachings, Master.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Jie replied solemnly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although the golden finger had arrived and he was no longer ordinary,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Xiucai’s intentions were good, and his concern for him was genuine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Enough, enough. Today, let’s not talk of that—let’s enjoy the spectacle.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Xiucai waved his hand and led Zhang Jie and the others toward the center.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those ahead, upon recognizing Zhang Jie and his group, made way for them.\u003C\u002Fp>",1826,"2026-06-20T14:22:35.989Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","6932cba40976c34283a9d87213f82f52098f11bd6bfc265dc59e373730e80884","simultaneously-transmigrated-my-cheat-skill-is-m-chapter-19","simultaneously-transmigrated-my-cheat-skill-is-m-chapter-17",601,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fsimultaneously-transmigrated-my-cheat-skill-is-m-cover.jpg"]