The Imperial Tutor's Cherished Darling

[My new story, "The Dandy Bows for Me," is currently being serialized. My next upcoming story is "The Lady Is Delicate and Frail." Please add them to your favorites, lovely readers~]

Jiang Nianwan was the least remarkable of the nine princesses of Nan Zheng. Yet Xiao Run, the son of the Vice Minister of War, admired her and pursued her relentlessly.

Her heart was full of joy, and she insisted on marrying him, only to die on her wedding night.

Xiao Run rebelled, and flames engulfed the Xiao family estate.

At her most desperate moment, she saw Lu Zhi, the Imperial Tutor who had always treated her with cold detachment, leap into the sea of fire and shield her from a collapsing beam with his back.

Reborn, she returned to the day before she had asked her father, the emperor, to arrange her marriage.

After the aloof, distant Imperial Tutor had given them a lesson, he unusually walked with her for a while.

"Princess, do you truly love Xiao, the Secretary?"

Jiang Nianwan heard his calm tone and stared at his tall, slender figure for a long time without speaking.

Lu Zhi turned around, saw her red-rimmed eyes, and stopped in his tracks.

But the young girl wiped her eyes, and her expression suddenly turned fierce.

"I don't like him at all. Xiao Run is short, bad-tempered, and can't even draw a bow. I won't marry him!"

In the ensuing silence, Jiang Nianwan heard him speak again.

"Then who does the princess wish to marry?"

The daylight and clouds were still and quiet. The young girl pressed her lips together and said nothing.

Then, tentatively, she reached out and took hold of his sleeve.

*

Everyone knew that Lu Zhi, the Imperial Tutor who held power over the entire court, had entered public life as the son of a concubine. His present position, where he could control everything with one hand, came from his ruthless nature and decisiveness.

But no one knew that from his youth, one girl had been the moon in his heart.

Later, in front of everyone, he used those hands that could turn the tides of power to arrange the hair of Nan Zheng's least favored princess.

He offered her, his moon, everything this world held most precious.

1v1, both virgins

Proud, beautiful little princess x cold, loyal, powerful Imperial Tutor

Both leads are reborn, but the male lead will only regain his memories of his previous life later.

[Upcoming Story: The Dandy Bows for Me]

Ren Xu was the most notorious dandy in the capital.

The imperial physicians said he was mad and beyond saving.

The people called him a disgrace to the Yong'an Marquis household, a man who had squandered the glorious military achievements his old marquis had won over a lifetime and the boundless merit his mother had earned by praying and keeping vegetarian.

When he came of age to marry, not a single noblewoman in the capital dared wed him.

Only the Jiang family, whose head was a government official, wanted to curry favor with the marquis household and was willing to marry Jiang Xianzhi, the legitimate daughter of a deceased wife, into the Ren family.

Ren Xu had long heard that she had suffered from an eye condition since childhood and was plain-looking, so he was naturally displeased.

He barged into the women's banquet and grabbed her chin, sneering in front of everyone. "So you're the one who dares marry me? Aren't you afraid of dying?"

Jiang Xianzhi fixed her warm, gentle eyes on him and answered softly, "I'm not afraid."

"..."

Ren Xu looked at the young girl in front of him, her face hidden behind a veil, and was momentarily speechless.

*

Ren Xu lived recklessly and did every kind of evil. Anyone who saw him gave the devil himself a wide berth.

But Jiang Xianzhi was not afraid of him.

Everyone called him a brute.

Yet he was the only brute who had been willing to help her in her previous life, when her younger sister set her up and framed her.

Later, all of the capital waited for him to bully the gentle, timid girl from the Jiang family to death. But at a flower fair one day, they saw sunshades stretched across the streets of the entire capital.

The heir, who had killed and set fires, looked at the young girl with almost tender affection.

"Make sure you've covered everything. The heir's wife can't stand strong sunlight."

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He was a wild, wicked man who would be good for the sake of one person alone.

Wicked, shameless dandy heir x shy, sweet young woman

Theme: Finding your way back from the wrong path.