A Champion Scholar Revered By Sages, And You Call Him A Useless Bookworm?

Summary

The passage describes a dramatic courtroom scene where a scholar named Zhong Fu Zi is judged for embezzling wages and mistreating laborers. A sage's projection reveals Zhong Fu Zi's past crimes through a reconstructed scene, showing how he and his disciples exploited and abused workers. Lin Yi, using the sage's disciplinary ruler, destroys Zhong Fu Zi's scholarly heart as punishment, effectively stripping him of his scholarly status. Song Zhi Li then moves to arrest Zhong Fu Zi according to the Great Yan Laws, with Li Wen Bo personally placing shackles on him, symbolizing justice for the mistreated laborers.

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