Taking a deep breath, Wei Long read "Death of a Small Civil Servant" from beginning to end again.
For the second time.
Wei Long's expression was complex as he muttered two words:
"Brilliant."
He had underestimated Chu Kuang.
This was not some simple short story that anyone would laugh at after reading.
There was a sense of lightness and humor between the lines of Chu Kuang's work, which was indeed soaked with —
Sarcasm!
The small fry inadvertently offends the bigwigs, and even if they have expressed forgiveness, the small time players can't help but live in fear, alarmed, because the bigwigs have such power to easily manipulate their fate.
This is the plight of the lower-rungs.
Chu Kuang did not clearly define the background of the story.
However, it is clearly a time when a general can decide the fate of the civil servant. The story he crafted seemed to critique the oppression of the feudal autocratic system on the lower classes…
