Main pairing: a beauty-obsessed, super-strong princess x a handsome, celibate scholar.
Dai Tingfang had always thought his first meeting with Jiang You'an was a dream.
That day, he was in low spirits and went outside the city to clear his head. As he reached the foot of the mountain, he suddenly heard someone speak to him from behind. Then he caught the heavy smell of blood.
He turned around and saw a woman standing some distance away, carrying a deer over her shoulder. The deer seemed to be injured, and blood dripped from the woman's sleeve onto the dirt road. Its head hung at her side, its wide eyes silently watching him.
The woman's coarse clothes were covered in dust and blood, and there were bloodstains on her face too. She looked as though she'd just fought something on the ground. Dai Tingfang jumped. "Are you hurt, miss?"
When the woman saw Dai Tingfang's face, her eyes immediately lit up. She grinned. "You have such a handsome face, sir."
Dai Tingfang was dazed. The bleeding deer, its gentle eyes, the woman carrying it on her shoulder, her radiant smile... Everything was too strange. He had to be dreaming, having some bizarre dream.
He gradually forgot about that dream. Then, while following his family's instructions to look for his cousin, he ran into the same woman again. She came right up to him and greeted him with a radiant smile. "You have such a handsome face, sir. Would you like to come sit at my place?"
Dai Tingfang seemed to wake suddenly from a dream and fled in a panic.
Seeing the man run away from her invitation, Jiang You'an was baffled. "I complimented him on his looks. Why did he seem so scared?"
"You only noticed that he's handsome, but you don't know who he is. His name is Dai Tingfang, and he's the only son of the head of Chongzheng Academy. His family has kept a close eye on him and raised him strictly since he was a child. He's in his twenties now, but I doubt he's even touched a woman other than his mother. You suddenly appeared in front of him, called him handsome, and invited him to your home. Of course he'd be scared," Yuan Zhu said.
Jiang You'an scoffed. "I only invited him to sit at my house. I never said I wanted to do anything else. He's such a coward."
"His family are famous old-fashioned prudes who care most about their reputation and chastity. They're a real nuisance. You'd better not provoke him," Yuan Zhu advised.
"The more you tell me not to provoke him, the more curious I get." Jiang You'an brushed the loose hair from her forehead and chuckled. "I want to see how he'll react if I ruin his reputation."
Character Profiles:
Jiang You'an was once a princess of peerless talent. One day, she ran away and fell into the mortal world. Even dressed in coarse clothes and simple hairpins, struggling through poverty and hunger, she couldn't hide her innate pride and boldness. Whatever she wanted to do, she would do, no matter the difficulty. Whatever she wanted, she would have, including that handsome man.
Dai Tingfang had studied hard for years, then was selected by the emperor as the third-place graduate in the palace exam. A rising young talent, he stayed in the capital as an official, hoping to accomplish great things. But he was caught up in factional struggles and returned home in disgrace, his ideals and beliefs reduced to ashes. While he was trapped and lost in the county town, a bloodied woman appeared in his life. He watched her face countless constraints without giving in or bowing her head, carving out a place of her own. Only then did he realize that there was more than one path in life, and that he didn't have to cling to an official career.
Yuan Zhu was a widow, separated from both her birth family and her in-laws, struggling to survive on her own. She took Jiang You'an in out of kindness one day, and from then on, she never had another moment of peace. Still, making trouble together was lively and fun. Once, she helped a woman divorce her husband. He refused, causing a crowd to gather in the street. Everyone called Yuan Zhu a shrew, but then a man came to her door, saying he liked her and wanted to marry her. Absurd!
Bonus Scene:
"I heard the princess's residence used to have a dozen or two male lovers. Is that true?" Dai Tingfang asked nonchalantly, his hands busy flipping through a book.
"I'm a princess, of course it's perfectly normal for me to keep a few male lovers. Don't all you men want to have a woman on each arm, with three wives and four concubines?" Jiang You'an replied.
Dai Tingfang shook his head. "I don't have any such lewd thoughts."
Jiang You'an smiled and walked over, gently taking Dai Tingfang by the wrist. "You're so handsome. If you became mine, I'd keep only you from now on. How does that sound?"
The book slipped from Dai Tingfang's hands. Under Jiang You'an's gaze, his face slowly turned red.
Theme: I want both a career and a man.
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Just kill, kill, and kill for the people is almost the same. Except for The Red Mansion, which one of the four great classics was not created by the common people to lower blood pressure... Recently, there is also my Little Swallow, Huanzhugege, a magical tool for lowering blood pressure. I will kick you to death, you arrogant, hypocritical and sour scholar.
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Evil laws are also laws, right? You have become a Buddhist. In an environment like this in ancient times, who can teach you the Dharma? The ancients' three views were so rigid that there were not so many folk stories.
If you have this ability, you can't do it cleanly. If you poke a chopstick into your eye socket, it's a monk holding an umbrella and he's still discussing human life. I'm convinced.
What are you doing to offend? Just kill the villain directly.
I want to pack up those named Zeng and those named Dai and beat them to death with a hammer, just think that this is no CP, the princess is not a handsome man, she really thinks of herself as a piece of Tang Monk meat.