The Student Held Back at the Imperial Academy

Yu Jianli transmigrates into a book, becoming the beautiful, unattainable love interest from the novel who was expelled from the Imperial College. All he can do is maintain that perfect image of an idealized love interest, “too frail to look after himself,” while accomplishing one impossible thing after another. For example: getting back into the Imperial College. The notorious “repeat student,” Yu Jianli, is back at the Imperial College! Few people have ever entered and left the Imperial College as many times as he has. He's practically the school's biggest joke. What does it matter if the other students are bad at their studies? Yu Jianli will always be at the bottom. The students flock over to gawk, eager to see what kind of fool this repeat student is, only to find a delicate, jade-like beauty smiling at them. How could anyone in this world be so beautiful? * A scandalous romance story begins circulating around town. Written with flair and full of dramatic tension, it becomes a huge bestseller. Later, people discover that its main character is based on a real person, none other than the young prince consort himself? The shopkeeper must value money over his life. Doesn't everyone know that the young prince consort is vicious and tyrannical, and the last person anyone should provoke? Sure enough, the shop is raided, and the story's author is dragged off to the Ji residence. They say he cries himself hoarse every night, and probably won't make it out of the Ji residence alive. Yu Jianli didn't write about Ji Yanbai, but every word sounds just like him. Ji Yanbai doesn't blame him. He just uses the story's contents to bully him day after day. Over a month later, Yu Jianli finally manages to leave the Ji residence. In search of fresh inspiration, he bravely enters a brothel to “broaden his knowledge.” But Ji Yanbai catches him in the act again. Yu Jianli cries out in despair, “Can't I write about a different kind of protagonist?!!!” * The hidden guards kneel all around, each one anxious and uneasy. Ji Yanbai's stern expression foretells a coming storm of bloodshed. Ji Yanbai lowers his eyes, thinking of Yu Jianli. He doesn't love me. He served Ming Zhiyan more food than he served me. No, he loves me. He wrote more stories about me than he did about Ming Zhiyan. The “repeat senior,” a learned and composed beauty, bottom × the “Imperial College's little tyrant,” a possessive and unruly young general, top [Mutual pining, historical school setting, lighthearted slice-of-life] *“Repeat student” means someone who was expelled several times and then returned to the Imperial College. Screenshot taken October 5, 2020. Theme: Even when cornered, don't give up on your studies or your future. Work hard and restore your family fortunes.