The Grand Tutor Is Hard to Win Over

[Loyal and Upright Courtier | Thinks He Tops, but Actually Turns into a Bottom for Love, Tutor Bottom]

[Both Scholar and Warrior | Wife-Obsessed Prince Who Can't Take His Eyes Off His Wife, Top]

Lin Ning transmigrated.

Before transmigrating, he was a university teacher, teaching a bunch of kids barely in their twenties.

After transmigrating, he was the imperial tutor, teaching a bunch of people barely in their twenties... princes.

Lin Ning: Will I be beheaded if I don't teach them well?

The eldest prince was slick and worldly, the second was a wastrel, and the fourth rarely showed himself. The fifth prince... Chu Yuanzhen, the fifth prince, pinned him against a wall and demanded harshly, "You're not the tutor. Who are you, really?"

Lin Ning thought for a moment, then replied, "I'm here to help you."

The court was full of undercurrents, and everyone had secrets.

Chu Yuanzhen had one too, but his secret was unlike anyone else's. No one knew he was reborn, not even Lin Ning, his "help." Chu Yuanzhen had never intended to involve anyone else, but that man still barged into his life.

To be someone's help meant giving everything you had for them.

When you shared your heart and soul, it was hard not to develop feelings of a different kind.

Later, Lin Ning asked Chu Yuanzhen with half sincerity and half probing, "Just think of me as your poor wife and let me help you work on your temper. Then you'll know how to handle the young ladies later. What do you say?"

At that, Chu Yuanzhen said nothing. Instead, he had his own main courtyard prepared, then waited properly for Lin Ning to move in and live with him.

It was a peaceful, prosperous age.

Living under the same roof and going everywhere together, Chu Yuanzhen also began to feel desire. He often found himself wondering: What would be wrong with taking a man as my wife?

He also made a pact with Lin Ning: when he was made a prince and inherited his title, they would both leave the center of power and live quiet, carefree lives in his fief...

*

The late emperor died suddenly, and the empire teetered on the brink of collapse.

The court was in turmoil, and the empress dowager's relatives seized power.

Lin Ning held the late emperor's decree, but the empress dowager's faction framed him and had him imprisoned.

In the dark cells of the Imperial Clan Court, one man broke through the door and pulled him into his arms.

"...I'm here to take you home."

"Reading Guide"

1. One-on-one, happy ending. Chu Yuanzhen is the top, Lin Ning the bottom. The top is 20, the bottom 29.

2. The top has no romantic history with the bottom in his previous life.

3. Serious tone, with roughly equal focus on plot and romance.

4. Two side couples, both sweet, and each gets a happy ending.

Theme: The tutor comes first, everything else comes second.