The third explanation, which is also the reason many online novel authors redeem Jia She, is that Jia She was a close aide to the Abdicated Crown Prince.
After the Abdicated Crown Prince's failed struggle for inheritance, Jia She, as his confidant, naturally got implicated as well!
To extricate the Jia family from the turmoil, Jia She willingly gave up the main hall and hid beside the stable, even deliberately appearing addicted to wine and women, feigning confusion and incompetence.
Regardless of the situation, it seemed that Jia She could always be redeemed.
Thus, many fanfiction male leads are written as Jia She, battling Madam Jia, the second branch, and the troublesome slave, truly exhilarating and thrilling to the full.
But, was Jia She really so innocent?
Addiction to wine and women might be dismissed as "self-defilement," but what about causing a death over a mere fan, or selling Jia Yingchun to a predator for five thousand taels of silver?
