[Age Gap] [Sweet Romance] Powerful Minister x Young Woman
To escape an arranged marriage imposed by her family, Shen Jiayu summoned her courage and sat for the spring examinations held by the imperial court!
Luckily, she actually passed.
The problem was that all the new generation of Li Dynasty's officialdom had gathered there, and her fellow candidates were all far too impressive. Jiayu struggled to survive in the cracks, and her life was more miserable than words could describe.
But that was all right. She had found herself a master.
Though her master was only a low-ranking proofreader at the Hongwen Academy, he was learned and well-versed in history, and more than capable of guiding a clueless novice like Jiayu.
What she never expected was that her master would be so capable that even a piece of deadwood like her would stand out among all her fellow candidates!
Shen Jiayu: How did it come to this...
She wasn't exactly eager to work that hard.
Still, she had to repay her master's kindness. Seeing him sort through documents every day, her thoughtful little self assumed he was frustrated with his lack of success. So she secretly went to her wicked minister father and begged him to promote her master!
But later, when she happened to see him in the Central Secretariat's corridor, the little fool realized her master was more than just a little impressive.
One of the heads of the Three Departments, the Central Secretariat's Chief Minister, and her father's sworn enemy...
Shen Jiayu felt a chill run down her neck, convinced her life was hanging by a thread.
Cheng Yun sat securely atop his lofty station. One day, while passing the Hongwen Academy, he took pity on a little fool and brought her home.
His strict, orderly life changed in an instant.
[To all the young scholars, Lord Dongtai was like snow on a mountaintop, cold and untouchable.]
[But Cheng Yun never told anyone that on that dark, damp, rainy night, he had let himself sink into temptation...]
1. This story has its own rules: women can serve as officials.
2. This is a fictional setting, emptier than the author's head. Don't overthink it.
3. I'll have to think a little more about the age gap...
Theme: Strive and work hard
