Orchid, Please Teach Me

[Sharp-minded, divination-skilled female half-immortal x Strategically brilliant prime minister who holds the realm in his hands]

Baili Youlan was Chen Tuan's sole disciple.

Born with a supernatural gift, all it took was one glance for her to see a person's fate and fortune.

Her master once told her

There was only one true dragon beneath the heavens.

But after descending the mountain and arriving in Kaifeng, she encountered three men bearing the aura of emperors.

She thought she had simply read their fates incorrectly.

She did not know that from the moment she set foot in Kaifeng, her presence had already changed the fate of the entire realm.

She controlled floods, solved cases, and vanquished evil spirits...

Baili Youlan's fame soared, and the common people honored her as a "female half-immortal."

Everyone said she could divine everything under heaven.

The only thing she failed to foresee was that she herself would become the greatest "variable" in this game of power.

Even more than that, she never expected to fall in love with the impoverished scholar Zhao Pu, who wanted nothing more than to rise to the highest position in the court.

He schemed for the realm.

She schemed for the people.

When the conspiracy was exposed, he could only choose between the empire and her.

In the end, he let go of her hand.

As countless arrows shot toward her, Baili Youlan leaped from the cliff.

That night, Zhao Pu stayed by the cliff's edge, keeping watch like a madman.

Everyone said she was dead.

He alone refused to believe it.

He searched for her for three whole years.

Three years later,

he finally found the person he had longed for day and night.

But she was hidden away in the Prince of Jin's residence, having forgotten her past and staring at him in alarm.

He gently cupped her face in his hands, his voice so hoarse it nearly trembled.

"Lan'er, I've come to take you home."

The next moment, he knocked her unconscious without hesitation and carried her back to the Chancellor's residence.

He had spent his life plotting for the realm.

This was the one time he refused to let go.

She was his calamity, and also the one person destined to bring the Great Song dynasty its golden age.

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[Bonus Scene]

Baili Youlan suddenly asked, "I heard His Majesty has chosen an empress?"

Zhao Pu paused as he turned a page and softly replied, "Mm."

Youlan couldn't help laughing. "It's been so many years. Why are you still jealous, Chancellor?"

Zhao Pu sneered. "I knew that brat was up to no good."

Youlan smiled, her eyes curving as she reached out to tug his sleeve. "All right, don't be angry."

Zhao Pu put down his book and swept her into his arms.

"What are you doing?"

"I haven't finished what Madam asked me to do yesterday."

"..."

"I'll make it up to you today."

Later, the history books recorded

The new emperor posthumously bestowed the title of empress upon the late Princess Consort Fu, who had died young. His final edict decreed that a hundred years later, the emperor and empress would be buried together in the imperial mausoleum.

No one knew that the woman who had once changed the fate of the realm was ultimately kept safe at the side of the man who held power over the entire court.

Note: 1v1. The male lead is career-obsessed early on, while the female lead loses faith in him. Later, he has to go through an arduous pursuit to win her back. They grow together. Happy ending!!!!

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My completed older works include Love's Sword Over the Realm, No Peach Blossoms, No Beloved, Welcome, Ancestor, to the 1980s [Ancient Times to Modern Day], and I Won't Be a Discarded Wife, along with many short stories available in the monthly collection for you to choose from.

Theme: Human will can triumph over fate.