Murong Wei transmigrates as a princess sent away to marry for the sake of an alliance, and from the start, she is tossed into the Cold Palace. Faced with stale food and a cold stove, this engineering PhD is furious. She spent twenty years working her way through a combined bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral program. How can she not handle a little problem like staying alive?
She returns to her old profession and opens a tutoring school. To her surprise, the first student to sign up is none other than the emperor in disguise.
“Teacher, this chicken-and-rabbit-in-a-cage problem...”
“Call me Teacher! No honorifics in class!”
“Then what about this law of buoyancy...”
“We just covered that yesterday! Stop daydreaming in class and go stand outside!”
When Murong Wei sees the emperor’s score of 59 on his monthly exam, she is devastated. “Even Consort Shu got an 85! Your grades are dragging down the whole class!”
The court officials are horrified to discover:
The emperor has lately been sighing over his exam papers;
The consorts greet one another by asking, “Have you finished your homework?”;
Court sessions often turn into group tutoring sessions;
And worst of all, calculus is starting to show up on the imperial examinations!
Murong Wei looks anxiously at the latest monthly rankings. “Your Majesty, you’re at the bottom again. According to the class rules, anyone who fails has to go to the Cold Palace for remedial lessons...”
The young emperor’s hand trembles as he grips his exam paper. “I shall issue an edict abolishing monthly exams at once!”
“Hmm?” Murong Wei raises her ruler. “Care to repeat that?”
“...I mean, we’ll do three more sets of Five Years of Imperial Exams, Three Years of Mock Tests tonight.”
[Reading Guide]
1. Every day, you can watch the emperor get kept after class for tutoring.
2. The consorts nearly come to blows fighting over tutoring spots.
3. The entire court is forced to take a final exam...
