The Number One Scholar's Everyday Life as a Teacher

A new author's work. Purchase with caution.

Blurb

[The Male Lead's Version]

Zhang Xiufu passed the imperial exams and became the top scholar at the age of twenty. His future had seemed boundless, but after just three years in the Grand Secretariat, an accident got him dismissed from office and sent back to his hometown.

He took an assignment from his teacher and became a tutor.

On his way to the academy on his first day, he came across a kindhearted young woman helping someone: Yu Yu.

The young woman whispered to her classmate, "The top scholar our teacher used to tutor has come back home. They say he messed up an assignment. Talk about bad luck..."

Zhang Xiufu, who was walking ahead and overheard the girls whispering: "..."

You might not believe this, but I'm that unlucky top scholar.

[The Female Lead's Version]

Yu Yu fell for the new tutor at the academy. He wasn't just handsome, but also gentle, upright, and dependable.

Following advice she'd picked up from a classmate, she secretly slipped a letter into the teacher's books each day, pouring out her feelings.

Unfortunately, she hadn't read much and hadn't paid much attention in school, so she had little to write about even after racking her brains. After two months, her letters got shorter and shorter.

Eventually, each one was reduced to the same brief line: "When I see my beloved, I lower my head with a shy smile, and my jade hairpin falls into the water."

She repeated it for five days straight.

At noon that day, after class, her teacher asked her to stay at the academy... for extra lessons.

After getting together with Yu Yu, Scholar Zhang's purse grew thinner and thinner. Whenever he saw something new and interesting, he wanted to bring it home for his girl.

Later, after he returned to court and distinguished himself, the emperor asked what reward he wanted.

It was only a token question. Zhang Xiufu had been famous for his diligent service and lack of desire for reward during his three years at court.

Then Scholar Zhang knelt before the throne, his face flushed as he stammered, "Thank you for your grace, Your Majesty. This humble commoner would like... silver... silver."

Otherwise, he'd have no money to marry his sweetheart. (A`)

In short, it's a story about a man and a woman falling in love, facing trials together, and spending their lives side by side at an academy full of chaos.

Note: 1. A gentle, refined tutor and a kindhearted, beautiful daughter of an escort agency

2. Set in an imaginary world. The author's logic is dead, so don't overthink it.

3. Neither lead is a noble or a member of royalty. This is a small-town love story, sweet and down-to-earth.

4. Thank you for your support. Bows deeply.

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Jiaojiao Xingyue, The Straight-Laced General's Adored Young Wife: A goofy, blunt, rugged male lead x a sweet, beautiful heroine he helps raise. (Bows.)

Theme: Stand up for justice.