[Traditional, old-fashioned man x modern woman who transmigrates]
01
Warm and cheerful Liu Qing was killed while saving someone. A System tricked her into transmigrating to the Great Qing Kingdom to complete a mission.
Snow fluttered in the twilight.
Golden roof tiles and brick walls shimmered with flecks of light, while flowers bloomed all along the covered corridor.
The view was beautiful, but her family and friends were nowhere beside her.
Everything had changed. Silence filled the world.
Then a clear, low voice came from the other end of the corridor.
“What trick is the princess playing now?”
At the sight of him, Liu Qing froze. Where had this cool beauty come from...?
He was a slender man, standing proudly in the corridor.
Morning light filtered through the lattice window onto his face, shifting shadows playing over his pale skin.
He stood there in pale blue robes, his features cool and composed. The breeze stirred his snow-white hair, mingling it with the light.
02
During her first month in this world, Liu Qing was so busy she barely had time to catch her breath, rushing around every day to establish a school for girls.
She begged the emperor to grant her a residence, and asked Xiuniang to teach language arts.
She asked the owner of the cosmetics shop to teach math, and the imperial physician to teach biology.
Aside from Liu Qing herself as the civics teacher, only the PE teacher volunteered to teach at the school everyone else was so eager to avoid.
Fortunately, hard work paid off. Under Liu Qing's leadership, the school gradually began to thrive.
03
Deep within the mansion,
Lou Chuan grew more and more curious about Liu Qing as he listened to his subordinates' report.
After waking from a three-day coma, the princess hadn't beaten her servants. Instead, she had come up with the far-fetched idea of starting a school for girls, something that had never existed in all of history.
What a joke.
Lou Chuan volunteered to become Liu Qing's teacher. He was genuinely fascinated by the ideas in her head.
She wrote characters he couldn't understand, said things he couldn't make sense of, and ate dishes he'd never tried. Her ideas were unlike anyone else's in the world.
Lou Chuan wanted to know how many secrets she still kept from him.
04
The sun shone brightly, and the day was warm and clear.
Liu Qing found out that Lou Chuan, the old-fashioned imperial tutor, had impeached her.
Watching the man sitting quietly in front of her as he ate, Liu Qing savored the delicious tomato and egg stir-fry.
She set down her chopsticks, rested her cheek in one hand, and asked Lou Chuan in a teasing voice,
“I hear the imperial tutor wrote a whole stack of letters to impeach me. What a pity I can't read them.”
Lowering her head, Liu Qing poked at her food and continued, “Don't write any more. If you do, I'll assume they're love letters from the imperial tutor, who's secretly in love with me.”
Liu Qing raised her eyes and smiled at Lou Chuan.
Only after he lost his memory did Lou Chuan understand that the beat of his heart at that moment had been the first stirrings of love.
[Reader Advisory]
* Age gap: the man is ten years older
* The overall tone of the story is lighthearted
Theme: Women should never have been shackled.
