"I just want to coast through life until I die. My goal is to land a well-paid, easy job, save enough money, and retire back home early."
Jiang Xueze spoke plainly when the late emperor named him a Palace Graduate, and he was even more straightforward after taking office. He wanted nothing to do with the princes' factional struggles, and day after day he showed up late and left early.
After the new emperor ascended the throne and the regent fell, Jiang somehow became the Grand Tutor, a powerful figure who held sway over the court.
...No, Your Majesty, you must have gotten the wrong idea about me.
Jiang Xueze, courtesy name Yiqing. During the late emperor's palace examination, he was praised as "graceful as distant mountains, bright as snow after a storm" and named Palace Graduate. After the new emperor took the throne, Jiang Xueze was appointed Grand Tutor.
By the time Luo Minggui heard Jiang Xueze's name, it had already been preceded by another epithet: powerful minister.
That day, Luo Minggui was digging a canal alongside a group of convicts sentenced to hard labor. He heard that a great personage had come to supervise the work. He kept his head down and dug, until a voice as fresh as spring rain said, "I'll take him."
Luo Minggui looked up and saw a face as graceful as distant mountains, bright as snow after a storm.
Over the following years, Luo Minggui witnessed the entire process as the powerful Grand Tutor strained every sinew to go from a lonely moon high in the heavens to a tail-dragging turtle in the mud.
At last, Jiang Xueze had nothing left but an old shoulder pole, yet his smile was still devastating.
He asked Luo Minggui, "I want to journey toward the distant mountains. My lord, would you come with me and live in seclusion?"
Younger top, 1v1: Luo Minggui x Jiang Xueze. A deep-cover agent who keeps his cards close and knows how to flirt x a powerful minister who acts like he can do anything but has always wanted to retire.
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