In the eleventh year of Yuancheng, the youngest daughter of the prefect of Yun'an disguised herself as a boy and enrolled at Songshan Academy.
She was audacious and full of ambition, declaring that one day women would be able to earn titles and serve as high-ranking officials, too.
Her years of diligent study were full of extraordinary encounters. On her very first day at the academy, she met the headmaster's son, a handsome young man with a face as clear as the moon and eyes that held distant mountains. His knowledge was unfathomably deep, too.
That night, Le Yao lay in bed and unilaterally decided that she would become his sworn brother and serve in court alongside him someday.
After passing the imperial examinations, Xie Simiao returned home and sought peace and quiet at an academy where he could study in seclusion.
But on his very first day there, someone showed up with a poem he'd written at the age of eight, asking to become sworn siblings. She clapped him on the shoulder and called him her brother.
Xie Simiao looked at her smooth neck and caught the fragrance of her body. He thought she was being ridiculous and turned her down without giving it much thought.
In the twenty-third year of Yuancheng, Le Yao, beloved concubine of Grand Secretary Xie Simiao, passed away. On the seventh day after her death, Xie Simiao did not go to pay his respects. Instead, he went alone to her bedroom and sat there all night.
When he woke the next morning, something felt wrong. He looked down and found someone in his arms.
It was none other than sixteen-year-old Le Yao.
They stared at each other.
*Sixteen-year-old Le Yao woke up to find herself in the arms of thirty-two-year-old Xie Simiao. What, what, what... Isn't this Mr. Xie from the academy, the most old-fashioned and aloof man there, who always went out of his way to avoid her?!
#She is his unruly concubine, he is her heartless lover
#Seductive concubine vs. aloof grand secretary
#A story about a hopeless romantic
#2023/3/8
Theme: I'll write it someday, sooner or later.
