Can we create enclosed spaces in the multimedia age to protect our practices from prying eyes? When the boundaries between public and private space are increasingly ambiguous and sensitive, indiscretion can infiltrate daily life to such an extent as to provoke “informational avarice” or even “informational pollution” due to its contagion effect, such as rumors. In this way, the force ranges from minor to major indiscretions, gradually affecting the judgment of reality. Indeed, indiscretion always accompanies conflicts and imbalances, which irritates vulnerabilities and the ethos.However, indiscretion is not always devalued, as it can appear as a strategic calculation to lift a sensitive mask of being protected by the institution. In The Scholars (Rulin Waishi), one of the foremost Chinese satirical novels, indiscretion is used to reconstruct the reality hidden by official history. This novel will serve the example to reflect on the theoretical and ethical of indiscretion by testing his diversity across different regimes: the reflexive and transitive indiscretion (in reciprocity regimes); the tension between indiscreet presence, observation, enunciation (in body and practice regimes); the choice between direct and allusive indiscretion (in strategy regimes); cynical and sympathetic indiscretion (in passion regimes) in the competing axes; the mobile axiological limits axiology between canonical reprehensible indiscretion and concessive tolerable indiscretion (in ethics regime), etc.Regardless, living together cannot be reduced to formal society and its laws; despite the moral dilemmas posed by indiscretion, it could emerge as a strategic passage to demystify hypocrisy in society.