Favorite tropes or things to avoid: [Top-tier beautiful, strong, tragic, cool beauty x clingy, spoiled young master at max level, 1v1]
The female lead is strong in every way. The male lead is beautiful, innocent, lively, and cheerful.
This is a straight romance!!! No gender-swapping, and no scenes like that.
All eight generals of the Chu family died in battle. The emperor, moved by the family's generations of loyal service, gave Chu Xi special permission to live in the general's mansion and betrothed her to the seventeenth prince.
Years later, one hates studying and is notorious for it. The other kills in the Golden Hall and is feared for it.
The Empress watched Baili Wenjun study and felt she was losing years off her life, so she immediately bundled him up and sent him to Chu Xi.
Baili Wenjun: Chu Xi, it's so stuffy indoors. Can we move to the garden to memorize our passages?
Chu Xi: Copying books calms the mind. Copy a few more times and you'll stop feeling stuffy.
Baili Wenjun, groaning with his head on the desk: If I memorize this awful passage, won't it take a few bites out of me? ... "Quietude cultivates the person; frugality nurtures virtue, " Ow!
Chu Xi: Baili Wenjun.
Baili Wenjun: Don't tell me I have to copy more books...
Chu Xi: If you finish memorizing it before dinner, I'll take you to Fuding Tower for a meal.
Baili Wenjun, instantly perking up: Really? Did you get a table?
Chu Xi: Of course.
Baili Wenjun: You said one passage means one passage. No extra conditions!
(After a pause)
Baili Wenjun: Ahem... Could we stop by the Pingkang Gambling House next door on the way? I could use some of your money.
Chu Xi: ...
Baili Wenjun, brazenly: What's yours is mine anyway. We're family, so no need to stand on ceremony!
Wondering why Chu Xi fell for Baili Wenjun? ↓
Answer: He's just too beautiful.
Theme: If you want it, you can make it happen
What what! There is |□□ in the mouth. Why is it an illegal word [covering face, laughing and crying]