For the first eighteen years of her life, Zhang Feng Nian was the Grand Princess of Dachang. Her capricious, arrogant, and domineering temper was matched only by her beauty, the kind that would be the most dazzling color in the world.
She never dreamed that Imperial Preceptor Gui Su would pass over her two younger brothers and put her on the throne as empress.
Before she turned eighteen, Zhang Feng Nian only wanted to force Second Young Master Yun to become her consort. After eighteen, even with a virtuous empress at her side, she still hoped Second Young Master Yun would enter the palace.
She was the most incompetent and ignorant empress in all of Dachang's history. Gui Su, meanwhile, was the most powerful and capable imperial preceptor ever to appear in Dachang's annals.
In her eighth year as emperor, Second Young Master Yun entered the palace in armor, carrying a letter of reprimand from the imperial preceptor.
The teacher she feared and respected most had sent someone else to ask her: "A Nian, what good is your life? What good is your death?"
When Second Young Master Yun tried to kill her, she didn't dodge. She knew she deserved it.
After waking from a nightmare, Feng Nian looked down at Second Young Master Yun, his face flushed as he struggled beneath her. Her thoughts were filled only with his elder brother, the virtuous empress from her previous life.
As for the imperial preceptor, Feng Nian had seen through him. Beneath his elegant, jade-like exterior was nothing but a heart as venomous and ruthless as a snake's.
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Gui Su had only one female disciple in his life. She had been raised at his side from the age of three, brought up by his own hand, and was the most arrogant, willful, and domineering girl imaginable.
He raised her for ten years, indulging her awful temper. He knew perfectly well she was ignorant and would never amount to much.
Then one day, his disciple suddenly became studious and well-behaved.
Whenever she saw him, she would gaze at him from afar with a look of deep resentment. When he approached, she would hide her fear.
Gui Su didn't know where her fear came from, but he understood one thing: if she really feared him, she should stay away from the two Yun brothers. Better yet, she should keep every man in the world at a distance.
But before he could do anything, the disciple he had raised laid a web of deception and plotted step by step, all to kill him.
He smiled.
He asked Feng Nian, "A Nian, are you truly set on killing your teacher? Do you really understand death?"
PS: The male lead is nine years older than the female lead. She is raised by him; he is a fatherly lover. A cold beauty falls from her pedestal; forbidden teacher-disciple romance, coercive love. The male lead is pure in body and mind. See the blurb for the female lead. In her previous life, she had an empress and consorts. In this life, she is pure.
Theme: I don't know how to write one.
