Qingqing is the youngest daughter of a general's household, spoiled since childhood. After falling off a horse at the age of eight, her personality changed completely, and she became notorious as a little troublemaker.
Her mischievous ways and seemingly endless energy give her parents no end of headaches.
Then one day, after causing trouble, she was sent off without mercy to the Imperial College, practically a prison, despite her father and her crying inconsolably together at the gate the next morning. Oh, Mother!
The dean there is famous for his strictness! He's the youngest son of a duke. Unlike lazy, troublesome Qingqing, he composed poetry at three and placed third in the imperial examinations at sixteen. Who knows what window Heaven closed on him? Not only is he as handsome as Pan An and brilliantly talented, he's also unusually virtuous, making him the first choice of every unmarried young lady in the capital.
At just twenty-two, he earned the position of vice dean through his own ability. Though he's only seven years older than the students, he's so hidebound he seems to have come from five hundred years ago.
The endless classical lectures leave Qingqing close to tears...
Luckily, she has a beloved top-student cousin!
If she can't learn it, she'll get tutored every day!
If she can't wake up in the morning, she'll bring him breakfast every day!
She makes a fuss,
he smiles.
Before long, her bright, lively, vibrant, clever, troublemaking self gradually catches his eye...
Until one day, someone carrying a food box sees the two of them embracing. The fingers gripping the box slowly turn white...
Later, an ongoing engagement binds her to him. She cries and protests, while he pursues her and fights to claim her~
