Please give this chapter some love - it’s one of my absolute favorites for the sheer relatability of Alibaba studying Mandarin, but it was also an absolute pain in the butt to translate because of all the tiny text in the “But no matter how many times” panel. I did my best.

Great Tang’s Luoyang - reminder that manhua is set during the Tang dynasty, in the years when its capital was in Luoyang.

My great talent - also a reminder that Alibaba speaks with an accent. What he really says here sounds more like… something like “shit power”. No wonder people are looking at him weirdly!

As expected - I just want everyone to know that it was a chengyu (traditional idiom), literally something like “expectations within”.