Mistakenly Teasing the Aloof Young Master

Blunt and vivacious × cool and vindictive

With the protection of their ancestors fading, the Rong family's fortunes had declined.

Rong Shu, the beautiful second daughter, became the family's greatest hope.

But she was lazy, loved to eat, knew next to nothing, and kept an unspeakable secret close to her heart.

How could she possibly be thinking about marrying into the imperial family?

On the day she went to try out for the princess's study companion, she had only meant to get it over with. Then she happened to see a cool, elegant young man seated on a waterside platform, playing the zither.

The young man was graceful and refined, with the looks of a moonlit landscape. At the corner of his lips was a faint, strangely familiar bite mark.

Her mind exploded, and she promptly fainted.

-

A month earlier, she had been trapped in a bandit stronghold and drugged with an aphrodisiac.

By chance, she had come across a sleeping bandit, a dangerously alluring young man.

To save her own life, she had no choice but to force herself on him.

She thought it had been nothing more than one reckless night, after which they would go their separate ways.

She never expected to meet him again and discover that the bandit had become the crown prince's exalted tutor: Xie Muci!

Everyone who saw him had to respectfully address him as “Teacher.”

The Teacher was learned, and far too handsome. Like the moon hanging high in the sky, he kept her awake night after night, unable to sit or lie still.

At last, she couldn't resist confessing her feelings.

Instead, he calmly handed her a prescription.

“Get rid of that bastard child, then come back and covet me, Xie.”

-

On the day they first met, Xie Muci had checked Rong Shu's pulse after she fainted.

The young lady had secretly conceived a child, but out of consideration for her dignity, he hadn't exposed her in front of everyone.

Yet she was carrying some unknown bastard's child and still pretended to be innocent, shamelessly pestering him every day.

She stared at him without restraint during class, and after class she was even more brazen.

Not only did she secretly call him “husband,” she also nestled in his arms and cooed, “Teacher, you smell so good.”

Unable to bear it any longer, he wrote out a prescription with a cold expression, drawing a clear line between them.

-

An old ailment had flared up, and Xie Muci had rested at the bandit stronghold, where he was brutally assaulted.

He had sworn to skin that lecherous scoundrel alive and tear him limb from limb to vent his fury!

Then he looked at the little thing in his arms, wailing nonstop. The child not only looked like her, but looked just like him too.

The evidence was irrefutable. There was no denying it.

He could no longer keep his composure.

“Teacher, you're a scoundrel!”

“When it comes to being a scoundrel, I, Xie, could never compare to Second Lady Rong.”

[Reading Guide]

1. Both leads are each other's first and only, HE.

2. Set in an imagined world. Don't overthink the details.

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