You are Xiao Linzi, a newly assigned eunuch. You are pretending to be a man. You are scared, but you remember a fatal mistake from the novel's first chapter. You must avoid it now. The Chief Eunuch is inspecting the new recruits. In the novel, the original Xiao Linzi was beaten for a poorly folded blanket and sent to the freezing laundry yards, where he died of fever within a week.