[A celestial official comes down to the mortal realm on a mission and accidentally ends up raising someone]
#The emperor sits in the grand hall, and I am the top scholar#
#I thought I was saving the realm, but it turned into exorcising demons#
On the day Kong Xi passed all three levels of the imperial examinations, phoenixes sang in the sky, and the sun and moon shimmered.
The people of Shuntian Prefecture spread the news: So-and-so is the Star of Literature descended to earth!
The emperor was overjoyed and told everyone he met: The Star of Literature has descended! Heaven wants my dynasty to last for thousands of generations! Hahahaha!
Ten years of hard study in a cold window, rewarded with a single day's ascent to the imperial court: this was a good thing.
Ten years among men, with her chest and legs exposed and no one realizing she was a woman... Well, that just meant people were generally blind.
Then, on the eve of the top scholar's parade, Kong Xi wandered in a dream through the celestial capital of the Ninth Heaven, where the gods welcomed her.
The Star Lord of Fate told her: The Lord of Literature is above you. The Great Ming will fall in ten years. You must extend its reign by another fifteen years, no more and no less. It has to be exactly fifteen.
When she woke, Kong Xi first thought: So I'm a celestial being who came down to earth. Did anyone ask me before blurring my gender?
Then she thought: I possess talents that can order the world and govern the realm. Surely I'm a great statesman of my age. I'm only supposed to extend the dynasty by fifteen years? You look down on me?
Until she saw the mortal emperor holding a fox demon in his arms and making her his consort, the Chief Eunuch with a green face and fangs, the court officials all in league with one another, and demonic energy filling Shuntian Prefecture.
This mortal realm is crawling with monsters and demons. She's a celestial being who can write but can't fight. Did she come down here to be eaten by monsters?
At last, Kong Xi gazed up at the heavens, tears streaming down her face: I was wrong, I was wrong. It should have been Zhong Kui who came down here!
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[The hero's perspective]
The crown prince met a celestial being when he was young.
When she arrived, the realm was prosperous. After she left, the dynasty teetered on the brink of collapse.
The celestial being also liked to tell the crown prince: This is all fate. It's just that you... What a pity.
Later, the mortal crown prince, whose imperial fortune was waning, worked himself to the bone through countless days and nights. When he finally poured out the last of his heart and soul into the history books, dynastic change and the transfer of power became inevitable as the blood-soaked pages turned.
With his last breath, he smiled and asked the celestial being: You say my dynasty's fall is ordained by fate. Does fate lie with mortals or with the gods?
The gods of the Ninth Heaven watched coldly from the sidelines. But she lowered her eyes to look at him and, just as she had when he was a child, stroked his head.
She said: I'll help you...
With words, I shall shape the realm. With my brush, I shall decide the gods' fortunes.
I will make sure the gods of the Ninth Heaven can never again rule the mortal world.
[Reader's Guide]
1. There are both gods and demons.
2. The hero is a crown prince, and the heroine is the Lord of Literature. (Fun fact: The Lord of Literature, whose full title is Lord of Literature and Zitong, is also known as the Lord of Zitong or Lord of Literature. This deity protects literary achievement and success in examinations.)
3. In just four words: defy fate and change destiny.
Theme: Devotion to one's country and people.
