He thinks and thinks, for days, reading books and trying to come up with an idea to make the Zhou rich again, fast and without needing to humiliate himself with some lowly job.
He doesn't think QinShi could have enough money to hold the whole family on his shoulders for long, he feels like choked by the hurry to get richness.

Not seeing any other option, one evening he leaves the house, full dressed in black and with his face as covered as possible, and reaches one of those taverns frequented by mercenaries. That seems a good compromise, but when he looks at the wanted posters, he gets disappointed to see how low the rewards are. Big money is only for some seriously hard criminal and they are rare. Most of the wanted ones are people with some small debts towards gambling houses and such. Hardly a silver, some even less.

While dishearteningly staring at those posters, a man approaches him from behind, acting rather friendly. He tells him that in these periods of low profit, many mercenaries 'fill the gap' with alternative, as remunerative activities, especially treasure hunting. The man tells him Arda is one of the favourite places, that some rare treasures from there were sold for insane amounts of money to the Western Queen herself. There is quite a big market for elven artefacts, but Arda has much more to offer than that.

After speaking to that man for a while and getting all the advices he could from him, ZiTao spends the next few days studying every book and map about Middle-Earth that he can find in libraries. It is not much, but still something.
Even too soon, he feels confident enough to be ready to go there, but he has two main problems:
1 He doesn't want to leave his family alone, in the hands of BangSul. He thinks to be the only Zhou left able to protect the family and even if time runs faster in Arda, he'd still have to miss for a month minimum.
2 Even if he is an overconfident and arrogant a**hole, he knows he will need help. He doesn't want to take risks, wants the whole thing to go smooth, thus he needs all the help he can get. And for that purpose in particular, he thinks he will need QinShi, for his mind, and MoonBin for his power.
He is pretty sure that both QinShi and MoonBin would refuse categorically, if he told them what he is up to, but he doesn't intend to give up so he aims to lie to both. To everyone.

An afternoon, all of a sudden, MoonBin receives and offer to meet with ZiTao, in a good tavern, for a drink, that same evening.
He goes to the place in advance and takes an isolated table, waiting for the arrival of the other.

As if that day wasn't going sh*ttily enough, he gets contacted by one of the people of the agency, in the afternoon, shouting like crazy at him because the 'guy he paid a room for, at a luxury hotel in the city' is making a mess in the room and they contacted the agency to get in touch with him.
Naturally he has absolutely no idea what's going on and thinks that someone cloned his credit cards or something.

He heads to this hotel and the director comes to tell him that the person he allegedly booked a room WITH is damaging the hotel furniture to build some kind of separation inside the room itself. He facepalms and is accompanied to the room to see this person, finding himself in front of QinShi, who is indeed doing some stuff with a hammer. "What the f*** are you doing?!" he thunders, exasperated.
QinShi leaves the little fort he was building and comes to him, looking all cranky. He even crosses his arms on his chest as if he was the one in position to scold, there. "Do you think I don't know?"
"Eh?! Who the f*** are you?!"
"Ah! Now you are even pretending you don't know me? You brought me to this cursed place and even got me inside your same room! Do you think I don't know what you have in mind?" He points his index finger at him. "You are a total perverted person! It's not going to happen! Not here! Not today!" he grumbles. "One day... when I'll feel ready..." One day = never.
"What the hell are you? What are you talking about?!" Poor TOP is completely baffled and clueless what to say. "I'm going to call my lawyer and sue you!"
"And what are you going to achieve from it? I tell you what: you are only going to annoy your uncle."
"My... what?! You are totally crazy, dude. I've nothing to do with you, expect my lawyer's letter soon." And goes away, angrier than ever.

The morning after JiHo went to found his agency, he finds a bunch of papers on his desk that seem to have appeared there out of nowhere, since he sure as heck didn't put them there.
Most of those papers are filled by somoene else for all the information that the person knows about him, mainly name, surname, birthday, city and such. There is even a pen on the papers as to invite him to sign them right away.

He quickly reads them... they are basically a contract to join an agency called 'Phoenix Arcana Entertainment', a contract to join the boy band of Jingyi and Kori and another one to take the role as vice CEO of the agency.
Of course he doesn't sign anything and feels kind of annoyed too at how arrogantly JiHo included himself in all his plans without even saying a single word to him.
He takes all those papers and walks out of the room, intending to slap them on JiHo's face.

Not only for him but also for the poor guards and the prisoners in his same section of the Imperial Prison.
His condition worsened exponentially as the minutes passed, almost as soon as Song left.
At first the symptoms were only physical, with nausea, vomit, sweating, incontrollable trembling and fever, but soon enough other symptoms started to kick in too, terrifying everyone around.
He started to have strong and unsettling hallucinations, accompanied by screams and desperate cries.

The guards tried to calm him down and to intervene in some way, but it only seemed to worsen the situation. They called the medic of the prison, but also hurried to inform, first of all, the Emperor, since it is his nephew.

LianBi, awakened in the middle of the night to be warned, orders Jin to be escorted to the Palace nursery to be treated by the Imperial Physicians and they naturally follow his order.
The next morning, after the meeting with the court, LianBi asks Song to remain there, so that he can tell him what happened that night and what the doctors told him.about Jin.

By now, he, Seok and Zhan are fully acknowledged, all over the East, as Sao Yung's son. This fact, alone, makes their life pretty easy and good as nobody, Eastern, would dare to do something that could, in any way, displease their father.

In the rare cases when the three go out of home together, it is like a show, with many young girls trying to catch their attention, worried people bowing and even kneeling in the middle of the street at their passage...
Zhan ignores, Gogun enjoyyyys, Seok looks dumb and waves at people.
And that morning, it is exactly what is happening while they walk towards their different destinations.
Zhan is the first to part ways, heading to the EIAs iq and leaving Gogun and Seok alone.
The two proceed until a distracted guy, Bokho, not paying attention to where he is going, ends up crashing against Gogun.