C24 You Are as Lowly as a Dog
Zhang Xing remained unfazed by his classmates' ridicule. They thought he was poor, and he knew that the poor were mocked both on Earth and here. In a society ruled by an emperor, with its rigid hierarchy, the poor remained poor through the generations, with no status to speak of. They were even less regarded than a noble family's watchdog.
For someone like Zhang Xing, endowed with magical talent