The Little Lin'an Academy

My next book will be "Professor Liang's Theory of Residual Value". The blurb is below. Please add it to your reading list!

Blurb

Wu Dai transmigrates into the body of the only legitimate daughter of a nouveau riche family in Lin'an and finds herself caught in a fierce household power struggle from the start. She ends up sharing a bed with the new gardener in the household.

Naturally, she refuses to accept her fate and marry someone else. Instead, she immediately takes the gardener as her live-in husband and openly fights for the family fortune.

But what leaves everyone in the Wu household astounded is that she asks for a worthless plot of land and builds an unprofitable academy on it.

Her stepmother smiles to herself. "That little wretch clearly won't amount to much."

But once the academy opens, people keep streaming through the Wu family's gates.

An official from the Maritime Trade Office: "Thank you, Headmaster Wu, for educating my timid niece so well."

A wealthy Lin'an merchant: "It's thanks to Headmaster Wu that my wastrel son has finally shaped up!"

The Duke of Wei: "Are there any places left at the academy?"

Her stepmother is green with envy. Worse still, the poor live-in son-in-law turns out to have quite an impressive background!

The reclusive scholar Yao Guanyang reluctantly becomes the Wu family's live-in son-in-law.

Madam Wu spends all day ordering him around, and he can't stand it.

Then one day, he finds that he no longer minds. The more he looks at his wife, the more he adores her.

That night, he tosses and turns on his bedroll, then gathers his courage and asks, "My lady, may I sleep in the bed tonight?"

Half-asleep, Wu Dai doesn't even lift her eyelids. "You can sleep there if you like, but don't expect me to take responsibility."

Capable, free-spirited rich heiress X gentle, reclusive, charming scholar

Blurb revised on July 5, 2023

Next Book's Blurb

Cool-headed, rational overachiever professor X laid-back, easygoing, dashing doctor

Liang Yue has always believed that toothaches and first love follow the same rule: either tough them out or pull them out.

One month after returning to the country, her troublesome wisdom tooth becomes severely inflamed. At the oral surgery clinic of the most expensive private hospital in the city, where appointments are booked three months in advance, she meets the specialist everyone says is "impossible to get an appointment with, even if you're rich."

Chen Xingyang, dressed in an immaculate white coat, is leaning against the computer on the treatment counter, looking through a patient's file with a relaxed air.

Their reunion is anything but tender.

Liang Yue lies in the dental chair, forced to open her mouth. Chen Xingyang wears a mask and leans slightly toward her. All she can see is the reflection on the protective goggles above his eyes. Holding a probe, he says calmly, "Professor Liang, the decay in your tooth root runs pretty deep. It's just like your attitude toward love: stubborn and refusing treatment."

After work, Chen Xingyang corners her against a wall.

Liang Yue coolly turns away. "Chen Xingyang, between us..."

"The residual value of our love has already been written off. It's down to zero, right?" He tilts his head and gives her a roguish smile. "I've never forgotten that wonderfully distinctive breakup speech."

"..."

He moves closer. His warm fingers brush past her temple, his voice dangerous yet alluring:

"But Professor Liang, haven't you forgotten that back then, only you made an assessment of our assets. I haven't signed off on my end yet."

Theme: Teach tirelessly.