Yun Canyao had spent half her life working for the Xie family and never married. All she hoped was that her younger sister, who had gone to the capital to serve as a study companion to the Sixth Young Master of the Xie family, would make something of herself.
She waited and waited, only for her sister's mangled corpse to return, covered in wounds and almost unrecognizable.
Yun Canyao immediately set off for the capital to demand an explanation. When the carriage lost its balance, she was left hanging over a cliff. Just as she clung to the rock face, someone suddenly cut off the hand she had braced against it. Only then did Yun Canyao finally understand what her beloved sister had suffered.
When she opened her eyes again, she had been reborn to the moment her mother asked the two of them to decide which one would go to the capital as a study companion.
Yun Canyao stared at the scene before her in disbelief. Her sister, who had once eagerly volunteered, was now hiding behind her, eyes wide with terror.
Remembering her sister's terrible fate, she stepped forward. "I'll go."
On the way to the capital, Yun Canyao read through the notebook her sister had left behind, tears streaming down her face. Once she stepped out of the carriage, she put on a fawning smile and bowed gracefully to the noble young master who had stepped down from his carriage onto the backs of his servants.
"I am Canyao. It is an honor to meet you, Sixth Young Master."
With the notebook her sister had left behind, Yun Canyao learned what would happen in advance. She successfully won the heart of the noble young master, figured out what his dissolute friends liked, and had the two of them eating out of her hand.
She clapped her hands and watched coldly as the two turned against each other, just as they had stood by and watched her sister die miserably in her previous life.
But there was also someone who had never appeared in the notebook.
Everyone said the Sixth Young Master of the Xie family had an extraordinary study companion. Some said she was a songstress he had trained to further his political career, a plaything for him to enjoy as he pleased.
But when someone tried to cause her trouble, their entire family was demoted the very next day. When someone tried to antagonize her, their reputation was ruined within half a month, and old enemies avoided her like the plague.
Yun Canyao: I didn't do anything.
Everyone else: We don't believe you.
The Imperial Tutor, Xie Siyun, arched his cool, indifferent brow. "Yes, I did it. Do any of you have a problem with that?"
Xie Siyun was never valued by his family. From childhood, he was left at an estate to recuperate, and only one person ever lit a lamp in his dark world.
In his previous life, he fought his way up, just so he could stand before her openly and tell her that no one could bully them anymore. But when they met again, she was already gone, her bones nowhere to be found, forever beyond his reach.
But in this life, it seems he still has time to become her strongest support.
Theme: Be optimistic and brave.
