Teaming Up to Become the Best in the Capital

Shu Yan had coasted through four years of college, and right after graduation, she transmigrated into the body of the young lady Xiang Shuyan.

The System's voice rang out in her mind.

[The Virtuous Lady and Socialite Training System 0086 is at your service.]

[Under our guidance, Host will receive comprehensive training in etiquette, music, flower arranging, tea, the zither, chess, calligraphy, and painting, with no gaps in her education, and earn the honorific title of the Capital's Premier Beauty!]

Shu Yan, a college student at the lowest point of her intellectual capacity: Huh?

What the heck are you even talking about? 0.o

Later, Shu Yan discovered that the System's so-called electric-shock punishment mechanism never worked properly, so she gave up and did whatever she wanted.

Forget being the Capital's Premier Beauty. She wasn't learning any of that.

*

Jin Yuzhao had felt a little strange lately.

He was in perfect health and spirits, yet the year he passed the imperial examination and came to the capital, he inexplicably developed a head ailment.

Every doctor he consulted was helpless. When the headaches struck, it felt like being hit by lightning, leaving him miserable and utterly baffled.

Then he discovered that whenever the schoolmaster scolded the eldest daughter of the Xiang family in the neighboring courtyard, he got a headache.

Jin Yuzhao: ...

Was this some kind of witchcraft?

To get to the bottom of it, he approached Shu Yan under the guise of a teacher of ink painting. But he found that this Miss Xiang, aside from being somewhat lazy and dull-witted, and fond of talking to herself, seemed perfectly ordinary.

Until one day, he heard what she was muttering.

Shu Yan: You could zap me with lightning a thousand times and I still wouldn't learn. Besides, my head doesn't even hurt.

Jin Yuzhao, currently suffering from a headache: ...

???

*

The punishment mechanism had been mistakenly bound to the new top scholar who had just moved in next door!

After learning the truth, Shu Yan felt terribly guilty whenever she saw Jin Yuzhao turn pale with pain.

To get rid of the System, the two decided to work together.

All those feminine skills, such as needlework, tea ceremony, and even singing and dancing, would first be learned by Jin Yuzhao, who had a photographic memory. Then, bit by bit, he'd break them down and explain them to Shu Yan.

Later, Shu Yan's dance took the capital by storm. At the spring banquet, she performed the Green Waist Dance and won gasps of admiration and praise.

People praised Miss Xiang's dancing as second to none, unmatched by anyone.

Shu Yan glanced at Lord Jin Yuzhao, the famously stern and expressionless minister of state, sitting not far away, and secretly laughed to herself.

Who says no one can match me? A couple days ago, when we were arguing, Jin Yuzhao danced to cheer me up, and he was way more provocative than I was. Hehe XD

[2024/07/28]

Theme: Join forces to become the best in the capital.