Fan Xi was the executive assistant to the head of the world's largest financial company. Just as she was about to be promoted to office director, she kicked the bucket. She had been serving the hardest-to-please CEO in the world, and after finally escaping that misery and completing her good deeds, she was about to sing her victory song. Instead, she tragically transmigrated, becoming a fake young master who was actually a woman in disguise. To make matters worse, she was a despised sponsored student at the Imperial Academy. What was a sponsored student? Simply put, someone who had bought their way in.
At the Imperial Academy, students were either imperial nobility, sons of officials ranked third or higher, or outstanding students selected by local government schools. At the very least, they had to be failed candidates who had taken the imperial examinations. Someone like Fan Xi had to keep her head down and behave. So she set her sights on foreign students from places like Goryeo, Siam, and Jiaozhi, and gradually built a thriving circle for herself.
She passed the imperial examinations and became a close aide to the emperor.
When she caught sight of an icy face exactly like her former CEO's, Fan Xi calmly rolled up her sleeves and went to support her "old master" with practiced ease. No need to panic. This was just another go-around. She could charm anyone with ease, and soon had the emperor eating out of her hand. Everyone called her the most treacherous official in the court. They all hated her to the point of gritting their teeth, yet had no choice but to flatter her respectfully.
At last, after once again completing her good deeds and rising to the highest ranks of the court, she bought a huge estate, settled a thousand servants and retainers there, and planned to return to her hometown, drink herself into oblivion, and retire early. Then a hand grabbed her.
"Where are you going?"
"Your servant... is retiring..."
"Not a chance!"
Fan Xi: …
P.S. The male lead is the emperor. He just happens to look exactly like her former CEO and have similar tastes, but he did not transmigrate.
Elements: Woman disguised as a man, daily life in the imperial court and the imperial examinations, with some political scheming.
Theme: Persevere
A Phoenix Match
Breaking Off the Engagement
My Young Master Is Always Sickly
Snow in the Evening Courtyard
Pei Chengxuan's Books
A Trial Marriage with My Blind Date
Married Again
Half a Pot of Sand
I Adorn the Grand Princess with Flowers
The Emperor's Terrace's Beloved
A Marriage of Convenience
Spring in the Hairpin