Cross-dressing + Ancient Academy + Transmigrate into a Book's Male-Oriented Genre + Multiple Male Leads + Very Loose Setting
A hodgepodge of old-school, shameless romance tropes
Gentle, ordinary heroine × men whose mental states are more or less normal
At seventeen, Yu Qingyun, in worn-out robes and tattered clothes, studied at Qingya Academy.
Her roommate was a strange shut-in who, after waking from an injury, went from acting like a dissolute son of a high-ranking family to becoming lively and simple-minded, with occasional bouts of eccentric behavior.
The male lead of the political intrigue novel whom he muttered was “terrifyingly emperor material” and kept his distance from was none other than Yu Qing's fellow townsman from Longxi, a ruthless man of few words who never backed down from a fight.
Well, Yu Qing wasn't particularly surprised.
So the girl at the academy who was also disguised as a boy and seemed to have some secret connection with her fellow townsman was the rumored jilted fiancée?
Yu Qing asked her fellow townsman about it. Sure enough, she was.
Yu Qing: ...This academy is pretty interesting.
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The novel begins ten years later.
His time studying at Qingya Academy was immensely important to the male lead, yet he rarely spoke of it.
A young military prodigy with no interest in studying, a clerk in the Office of the Censorate who excelled at mechanical devices, and a destitute imperial merchant who once did business across the realm... They all became his trusted allies during this time.
Nearly all the book's villains also came from the academy: the ill-fated director of the Imperial Observatory, a local minister whose entire clan was wiped out and who fell from a tower, a royal relative who rebelled and was defeated...
Add a female lead from a romance novel and a guy who transmigrated into a book, and this little academy was positively crawling with hidden talents.
And Yu Qing? She was just an ordinary passerby who died before it all began.
Romance-novel heroine: No, she was his moonlight.
Yu Qing: We all died young, then.
Today's goal: stay alive.
Good-looking, Qingqing is so gentle and has a very charming personality! The author is great and the writing is very good, it feels like he is telling the story! Looking forward to the next plot development!!! Looking forward to Qingqing!