[Goofy college student Ren Ran x cold-on-the-outside, dominant Prince of Chu Ling, Shen Yuan]
My name is Ren Ran, and I'm a history major. I'll be graduating in three months.
My thesis topic is a warlord called the "Prince of Chu Ling."
His real name was Shen Yuan. Born to a low-ranking concubine and fallen on hard times, he still managed to inherit his title through ruthless means.
Once in power, he pushed through reforms, purged rival factions, introduced new policies, and supported a young ruler.
But he was emotionally unstable, loved flying into rages, and was cruel by nature. His doorstep was piled high with intestines and kidneys.
The official histories offer only a couple of faint words of praise; everything else is condemnation.
But his tumultuous life fills me, as I write my thesis, with unbridled joy.
A ten-thousand-word thesis, with eight thousand words of quotations.
I'm a college student, and this is the Prince of Chu Ling. Everyone, please join me in thanking the Prince of Chu Ling.
But a month before my defense, something bizarre happened.
My graduation thesis died.
The Prince should have lived a grand, eventful life, but when I opened the history books...
They clearly stated that he died at twenty.
But when I was writing my thesis a month ago, he was still a real historical figure.
I'm graduating in a month! And now I have to rewrite it? How is that any different from killing someone's parents?
How can a historical figure, dead for hundreds of years, somehow disappear after being dead all this time?!
It's not like a web novel, where someone transmigrates into the past, changes history, and kills off the Prince of Chu Ling, changing the present hundreds of years later...
A billboard fell and hit me.
I transmigrated.
When I transmigrated, I was in a woodshed. A huge crowd of personal guards stood outside, shouting for us to come out and surrender.
Inside, beside me, was sixteen-year-old Shen Yuan, covered in blood and wounds.
There's no time to explain. Get in the car first.
"Come with me. I can help you escape."
"Why should I trust you?!"
"Because... you're important. You're the most important person to me."
From that moment on, I resolved to make sure Shen Yuan survived, no matter what happened.
He had to live past twenty, make it to forty, become the notorious regent history remembered, and live until his time came.
He had to live long enough for me to write ten thousand words about him.
1. Only the blurb is written in first person; the story itself is in third person.
2. This is an unconventional transmigration story, full of plot holes.
3. The dynasties and all sorts of historical details are thrown together; there is no real historical basis.
Theme: I'll be waiting for you in the future.
