I’m Just a High School Graduate, Don’t Make Me Empress!

A transmigration story perfectly suited to the Chinese student experience!

Lin Chao Che couldn’t answer any of the four multiple-choice options, yet somehow she transmigrated into the body of an empress and was handed an essay question on governing the country. The court officials knelt in a sea before her, and she opened her mouth with, “Good morning, class.”

But it wasn’t a big problem, because she soon discovered she had a teammate. Her high school best friend, Li Si Li, a science prodigy who had gotten into Peking University alongside her, had transmigrated into the body of a handsome male prime minister.

But wait! How did the new, smiling-tiger prime minister manage to bluff the corrupt officials at court with ellipse equations and Kepler’s Second Law? What kind of empress gives a crash course on “mediation, conciliation, litigation, and arbitration” in the middle of a concubine’s palace intrigue?! What’s with using a frequency distribution histogram to calculate soldiers’ average daily calorie requirements? And then she personally taught three argumentative essay templates and held a nationwide essay-writing competition, sending students across the country into a frenzy! Their textbooks for math, English, politics, history, geography, physics, chemistry, and biology were their golden finger. They had memorized every page, but had no idea how to use any of it in the real world. To avoid becoming rulers who lost their country, they decided to start by whipping the cafeteria into shape, quantifying attendance, and forcing officials to write eight-hundred-word self-criticisms.

Only later did they realize that smooth little spheres couldn’t save an empire sliding into the abyss, and standard answers couldn’t capture real life. But who says exam templates can’t keep a crumbling empire standing?

Then watch us turn twelve years of knowledge from books into reality, one step at a time.

“The ancients spared no effort in their studies; what they worked at in youth, they mastered in old age. Knowledge gained from books always seems shallow; to truly understand it, one must put it into practice.”

Two transmigrators × pure love × sworn rivals turn into devoted husbands × one male lead, no harem

A teaser for the Yuan Che pairing:

“Your Majesty, I was born to serve you.”

“No. You must serve the people!”

And then he really did go serve the people.