Male students, inspired by the wire-action stunts in Farewell My Concubine, repeatedly attempted the reckless feat of jumping from high windows of the academy's towers.

Though they laid out multiple layers of soft mattresses on the ground to avoid injury, it was a dangerous venture. A single misstep could easily result in a broken neck.

“Damn it! Another failure!”

“A man’s life is all about grit! We keep training until we get it right!”

“We'll live like Xiang Yu—conquering the world with nothing but a sword! Let’s gooo!”

These fools were the reason warnings like “Do not try this at home” existed.

Unlike with Admiral Yi, I’d deliberately avoided any localizations this time to enhance the exotic flavor of Farewell My Concubine. Names like Xiang Yu, Liu Bang, Fan Zeng, and Han Xin were left in their original, unfamiliar forms. It might sound like a string of strange syllables to these medieval fantasy-worlders, but who cared? I just needed to deliver a dose of Orientalism that would blow their minds.