I Opened a Women's Virtue Academy, and the Whole Capital Panicked

At the palace banquet, the Grand Princess asked me to lecture all the noble young ladies in the capital on women's virtues. She said, “A woman should be gentle, yielding, and treat her husband as Heaven.” I nodded, then turned around and wrote eight large characters on the screen. “Check him before marriage, audit the accounts after marriage.” Every noble young lady in the hall: “?” I smiled. “Being gentle doesn't mean being foolish, yielding doesn't mean being blind, and even if your husband is Heaven, you still need to see whether that Heaven leaks when it rains.” In the first lesson, I taught them how to recognize a man's empty promises. In the second lesson, I taught them how to protect their dowries. In the third lesson, I taught them how to divorce with grace. Half a month later, the capital was in chaos. The princess discovered that the prince was keeping a mistress. The daughter of a marquis's household called off her engagement overnight. A general's wife emptied the storerooms and moved back to her family home. The men of the entire court knelt and begged the emperor to seal my mouth. The emperor asked me, “What exactly are you trying to do?” I lowered my head and bowed. “Your subject is merely teaching them to uphold women's virtues.” “Only, they are upholding their own virtues.”