[All-around history graduate student × Benevolent, introspective fallen emperor]
History graduate student Xu Zhiyao stayed up all night revising her thesis. When she opened her eyes, she had transmigrated twenty years before the fall of the Great Zhao dynasty, into the body of an eight-year-old girl.
She’d planned to lie flat on the border, but her own father threw her into the military camp and made her train in martial arts for nearly ten years.
To stop Great Zhao from falling, she sent an anonymous letter to the newly enthroned young emperor, Xiao Zhiyuan: “If Yanmen Pass falls, the capital will have no defenses left.”
Later, Yanmen Pass held, but she died.
The emperor hid all her letters in a secret compartment and even built her a shrine.
Who could have guessed that three years later, she would return from the dead? As it turned out, she had spent those three years as a spy in the enemy kingdom of Beirong.
Back in the capital, she stood before the emperor and said, “Your Majesty, Great Zhao can still be saved.”
The young emperor studied her for a long moment, then said, “I know. But why is your handwriting still so ugly…”
A history graduate student who wants to lie flat but is forced to train in martial arts and take the imperial examinations.
A benevolent, introspective fallen emperor who’s constantly left exasperated and amused by her.
Two formidable partners, shoulder to shoulder, protecting their country and their people.
