In any case, compared to some of the other Taoist divinities who have emerged from the souls of the dead, the Jade Emperor is still relatively remote from worldly affairs. He is unlikely to specially smote any ordinary person, and there's little harm in His having a little joke now and then.
畢竟比起其他各個由死去英靈衍生出來的道教神明，「天高皇帝遠」的玉皇大帝總是較疏於世事，不會特別降禍於某一個凡人，偶爾開開祂老人家的玩笑也就無妨了。