Title: 在古代上班的日子
Author: 微微多
Total Chapters: 35 + Ongoing

Description:

Ye Mian is the youngest legitimate son of his family. As the saying goes, birds of a feather flock together; his circle of close friends consists entirely of the youngest or second sons of the capital’s most prestigious noble houses. During their days studying at the Imperial Academy, this gang of “I’m second only to Heaven” privileged second-generation scions lived life with such fervor that they seemed ready to poke a hole through the sky.

One day they’d be making mischief in the classroom, ripping tiles off the roof; the next, they’d be calling on their friends to gallop on horseback through the outskirts of the capital, trampling the spring breeze under their golden saddles.

The proctors of the Imperial Academy were driven to splitting headaches, trying to coax them: “Study peacefully! Once you finish your time at the Imperial Academy, you will enter officialdom through your family’s status, and from then on, you will be free of constraints. The imperial court has a different kind of joy waiting for you—you’ll be able to live as you please!”

Hearing this, these sons of officials became even more invigorated. Since childhood, they had envied their fathers and brothers for not having to sit in classrooms memorizing books—simply checking in at the government office in the morning and attending banquets at taverns in the evening. How carefree and unrestrained!

While kneeling in punishment along the hallway of the dormitory, the group babbled and argued, imagining their future careers as officials to be something akin to a blissful celestial paradise.

The proctors, listening nearby, exchanged cold smiles: A bunch of little brats! Once you step out of these gates and enter the tiger-and-wolf den that is the imperial court, the stern rules of officialdom and the cynical ways of the world will teach you how to be human all over again!