On This Day, I Ascended to the Clouds

Princess with a Heaven-Ordained Phoenix Fate × A Warlord General Who Keeps His Strength Hidden

Liu Zhenfeng had thrown her weight around in the Great Qi imperial palace for over a decade. The reason was that her mother had died in the very year the emperor loved her most.

To fulfill his beloved's last wish, the emperor began life as a super dad. He founded a school for girls and even planned to betroth his most accomplished Imperial Academy professor to her as her consort. He had thought that giving her access to the finest educational resources would turn her into a talented princess of both virtue and refinement. In reality... every day, as he looked at Liu Zhenfeng's last-place exam papers, the emperor could only sigh and fret.

"Child, what is it you actually want to learn?" the emperor yelled in despair.

Liu Zhenfeng pointed at the map in his study. "Father, I want to see the world!"

Liu Zhenfeng longed to travel the world, and at last, when she was eighteen, she got her wish in a rather roundabout way. That year, northern barbarians invaded and demanded that the emperor send a princess to marry for peace. To protect her, the emperor was willing to send his legitimate daughter instead. But this brought to light a secret that had been hidden for more than a decade: Liu Zhenfeng was not his daughter at all!

The emperor, once again at his breaking point, ran to his beloved's chambers and tearfully complained. But after crying for ages, he caught sight of Liu Zhenfeng's face, so much like her mother's, and his sobs caught in his throat once more.

"Fine, I'll forgive your mother one more time!"

Liu Jingsu had always had one person he particularly despised: his teacher, Jiang Yan.

There were two reasons. First, he always marked Liu Jingsu's papers second to last. Second, his arrival had caused Liu Zhenfeng, Liu Jingsu's childhood sweetheart, to fall for someone else.

"A Zhen, how about we skip class and go practice archery tomorrow?" Liu Zhenfeng coldly turned him down, then stood on the moral high ground and gave him a kick. "I'm not like you. I have to attend Professor Jiang's class!"

Liu Jingsu stared in disbelief at the person who had come in last. "Since you entered the Imperial Academy, have you ever listened to even one lesson?"

Later, he would discover, to his dismay, that Liu Zhenfeng's intentions were anything but scholarly.

Eventually he married his childhood sweetheart, but who could have known that the year they fell in love would also be the year he died?

After returning from the dead, Liu Jingsu took the lesson to heart and resolved to become the kind of person Liu Zhenfeng loved most... So he entered the new dynasty once again as an Imperial Academy professor, persistently asking Liu Zhenfeng:

"Now I'm a professor too. Can you love me?"

Theme: See how women take charge of the court in a turbulent age.