Putting the Ancients Through the Gauntlet of Exam-Oriented Education

Yan Luzhou, a first-grade teacher, was killed while walking a student home. After death, he transmigrated to ancient times and awakened the "System for Teaching and Nurturing Talent."

Yan Luzhou: Teaching and nurturing talent? That's right up my alley!

To earn points, he took his older brother's place at the Imperial Academy. But Yan Luzhou didn't understand the old language, and one exam paper during his appointment... landed him in the palace.

A certain crown prince: "I happen to need an idiot to ruin the education of my two younger brothers..."

Unexpectedly, Yan Luzhou brought modern teaching methods to class, making his lessons clear, concise, and funny. The taciturn Second Prince became cheerful, and the rebellious Third Prince started listening obediently.

Before the exam, Yan Luzhou gave his students the usual final lesson in exam-oriented education:

"Class, do you know what's the most important part of an exam?"

"Answer carefully?" The Second Prince raised his hand.

"Check your work?" The Third Prince tilted his head.

"No, no, no. The most important thing is to fill in every blank." Yan Luzhou smiled. "Write the answers you know carefully, and don't make mistakes. For the ones you don't know, if you write enough, maybe the grader will give you a few points because you made an effort."

"That way, the gap between you and everyone else will close..."

When the results came out, the two princes had done even better than the crown prince had back in his day. That was another blow to Zhao Mingshen's already shaky position as heir.

That very night, Yan Luzhou was thrown into the dungeon for holding an ink stick incorrectly.

Zhao Mingshen: (death smile) I hear you're good at teaching?

Yan Luzhou: ...

Damn it! What does my teaching have to do with you?!

A witty, good-humored young teacher at the Imperial Academy x a smiling-on-the-outside, cursing-on-the-inside crown prince

From rivals to mutual devotion

P.S. I'll update according to the rankings if I'm listed. If not, I'll post two or three times a week. I've got a lot of chapters saved up. I'll fix any bugs later. Writing six thousand words a day has left my brain a little scrambled.

Ten thousand years ago, after the disciple of the Demon World's Sacred Venerable was slain by heavenly soldiers, she fell from immortal to demon, nearly razed Heaven to the ground, and triggered a war between the Three Realms.

Only after Emperor Gouchen returned to his place did Heaven avoid total collapse.

After that, the rulers of both sides fought small battles every three days and major wars every ten, locked in fierce conflict for a hundred years. Neither could get the better of the other.

The gods and demons suffered terribly. The great powers' battles destroyed heaven and earth, leaving no chance to recover! Aaaaah!

Then, for some reason, someone carved the names of these two great powers side by side on the Three Lives Stone.

Once their names are carved into the Three Lives Stone, even immortals must descend to the mortal world and undergo a trial of love.

But x and y had been fighting for years. Knowing that even their heaven-given talents couldn't defeat the other made them furious. Just looking at y's face disgusted x.

How could they sit back and wait for "love"?

To make sure she didn't fall in love with him, x set up three safeguards.

The first would restore her memories. The second would return her life-bound halberd. And the third...

The third was a Heartbreak Gu, planted in her heart. If she fell in love in the mortal world, her bones would shatter and she would die.

She couldn't help it. Her heart had been filled by someone ten thousand years ago, and there was no room for anyone else.

But who could have guessed that the cycle of reincarnation would send her back in time to ten thousand years ago?!

And her beloved disciple was being mauled by jackals, his face disfigured and hated by his own parents!

The person she had searched for over ten thousand years was right before her eyes. x was overwhelmed with excitement and was about to rush over

Wait! The Heartbreak Gu!!!!

In the first life, the lively, spirited little master became a cold, aloof mentor. y finally managed to warm his master's icy heart. After countless hardships, they were about to achieve their happy ending when his master suddenly dropped dead...

In the second life, the mentor was King Zhou, and y became Su Daji, the beauty who brought down the court. The mentor's career-minded side kicked in, and she tried to kill him. y only recovered his memories just before their weapons clashed, and then his mentor keeled over and died again...

The third life was even worse. This time, the mentor finally arrived in time and stood in front of him to face a hundred thousand heavenly soldiers. Then she died, pierced through the heart by countless swords.

The Emperor, after completing the cycle of reincarnation: ...I'm going to raze Heaven to the ground.

A story where one goes crazy in the first half, and the other goes crazy in the second half. Lots and lots of memory-loss tropes!

A second-chance master-disciple romance. In one of their reincarnations, the woman becomes a man and the man becomes a woman (*￣︶￣) (Honestly, it's pretty good... fidgeting.jpg)

Hehehe, important things must be said three times!]

Theme: Fear not fate; surpass yourself.