Do I Still Have to Teach After I'm Dead?

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Resilient, kind, proud heroine × gentle, scheming peacock hero

Mu Nanyin, a high school teacher with no power or influence but a strong sense of responsibility, dies of a heart attack one ordinary night.

When she opens her eyes again, she finds herself in a dynasty she has never heard of.

She had terrible luck in life, but great luck after death.

Through sheer dumb luck, she is taken in by the headmaster of the most prestigious academy in all of Dayong, and solves her household registration problem without lifting a finger.

A relaxing retirement is just around the corner.

But the academy's students have all been admitted on the strength of their family backgrounds. They're good-for-nothings who form cliques, bully the weak, and neglect their studies...

Mu Nanyin finally can't take it anymore and picks an auspicious day to whip them into shape.

So why does she end up becoming a celebrated teacher while trying to set them straight?

Reader's Guide:

1. The heroine has a character growth arc, but this is not a story about an all-powerful heroine.

2. The heroine has a slight everyone-loves-her quality, but she has no romantic feelings for anyone but the hero. The others are drawn to her personality as friends or admirers.

3. Some supporting characters are quite hateable at first.

4. The setting is partly fictionalized. Don't overanalyze it.

5. The heroine disguises herself as a man at first.

6. One-on-one romance, both leads sexually inexperienced and faithful, happy ending.

7. Slow-burn, super-long story.

Here's an upcoming story, Ten Coins per Point of Magic

Blurb:

In the cultivation world, strength is judged by one's cultivation level, but Qian Xun is a good-for-nothing with no spiritual roots.

At eighteen, Qian Xun encounters a once-in-a-century monster calamity. As luck would have it, her home is right in the middle of the monster-infested area.

To protect herself, Qian Xun asks Yun Su, the world's greatest cultivator, who has come to deal with the calamity, to lend her some magic power.

"I don't lend magic power. I sell it."

"Sell it?" Qian Xun laughs.

She lacks spiritual roots and magic power, but she's never lacked money.

In the end, Qian Xun buys three thousand points of magic power at ten coins per point.

Once the calamity is resolved, peace returns to the world. With no use for their skills, many cultivators have no one asking them to hunt monsters and vanquish demons, and they lose their source of income.

Someone starts a rumor that the world's greatest cultivator, Yun Su, made a fortune selling magic power to a young woman. The story spreads from one person to ten, then to a hundred.

When Qian Xun opens her front door, people are packed three deep around the house. Not even a fly could get through.

"Miss Qian Xun, are you still buying magic power?"

Qian Xun looks at the growing crowd of cultivators and hesitates, her hand on her money pouch.

Amid the commotion, Yun Su strides out of the house with a dark expression and drives everyone away. "She only buys magic power from me. Please go home."

Theme: Pass on the spirit of teachers' selfless dedication.