Chu Yun was reborn.
For a woman of humble origins like her, studying had always been an unattainable dream.
In her previous life, driven by an obsession, she married Fan Cheng, a man burdened by infamy and the central figure in the capital's notorious imperial examination cheating scandal.
Sadly, fourteen years brought her nothing but endless neglect and pain. She could not get even one step closer to the Pavilion of the Sixth Day.
Reborn into a new life, she went so far as to disguise herself as a man and attend an academy. But who could have guessed that her lecturer would be Fan Cheng?!
"How can you keep losing focus when you're sitting beside me?" he asked, watching her with amusement.
Chu Yun rolled her eyes. "Sir, please behave yourself!"
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Somehow, Fan Cheng became her lecturer, and he acted strangely toward her.
He tutored her privately, then said all sorts of incomprehensible things...
Chu Yun, disguised as a man: Oh no! He, he, he likes men!
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Years later, the townspeople gossiped in the streets:
"The Fan family's library, passed down for two hundred years, has actually been entrusted to a woman from another family! Ordinary people weren't allowed in before, and women especially were forbidden. What a wonder!"
"She's a female lecturer. Even her husband, the Chief Minister, has no objection."
"Thanks to her, my daughter finally has a school to attend."
"The emperor even changed the law because of her."
"He had no choice. The Chief Minister kept pushing him to do it!"
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After Fan Cheng was reborn, he waited for the Chu family to come propose a marriage.
Instead, he watched with his own eyes as Chu Yun disguised herself as a man, grew closer and closer to another scholar, and even arranged to stroll through a garden and compose poems together.
His younger brother and Chu Yun were both worried about him. Could it be that he was attracted to men...?
Fan Cheng: ??
Theme: Break through constraints and be yourself again.
Open the text and spread the flowers?