Grand Preceptor, Will You Marry?

Blurb for Will the Grand Preceptor Marry?

Fan Shuxue transmigrated, suddenly arriving in an unknown world. As soon as he did, people found him and brought him into the imperial palace. When he was little, they took him by the hand and led him before the current emperor. The person holding his hand was the incumbent Grand Preceptor. In this country, ordinary people revered the Grand Preceptor as a god. They believed the Grand Preceptor was an immortal sent down from the heavens.

Now Fan Shuxue had been chosen. He was to inherit the office of Grand Preceptor, divine the country's future, and assist the emperor.

Fan Shuxue's denials were useless, and he couldn't escape. No matter where he went, people from the palace would find him. He was Heaven's chosen one, an immortal destined to protect the nation and save the world.

So Fan Shuxue had no choice but to study under the white-haired incumbent Grand Preceptor. Gradually, his lively nature changed, and he became a cool beauty.

When the old Grand Preceptor left on his travels, Fan Shuxue took over the office. He left the Stargazing Tower to meet the emperor, only to find that Emperor Digou was far too familiar with him.

The Grand Preceptor often had to divine matters of state, but how could Fan Shuxue do that? He was just an outsider who had transmigrated here.

Whenever the occasion arose, he would put on a show of performing a divination ritual. The audience below couldn't understand what he was doing, and neither could he.

Fortunately, the old Grand Preceptor was a bit of a slacker too. During the past few years, he had supposedly been teaching Fan Shuxue the art of divination, but in reality he had just given him a script to memorize.

After Fan Shuxue recited a prediction based on the book's plot and it came true, he could muddle through without incident.

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One day, Fan Shuxue encountered a certain prince with a beaming smile. His instincts told him the man was up to no good. He tried to take another route, but the prince blocked his way.

"Grand Preceptor, tell my fortune. Will I be destined to marry you, or my father?"

"..." It wasn't in the book.

After that, the prince pursued him frantically, and Fan Shuxue couldn't escape no matter how hard he tried. Whenever he met with Emperor Digou, the man who looked as cool as an immortal descended from the heavens would be pinned against the palace wall by the madman, his beauty flushed with desire.

The immortal knows not what he divines,

From afar, he sees falling snow weave a stunning vision.

Fan Shuxue knew only that the prince Ling Zhou had an obsessive, intense desire to possess him. He did not know what the emperor's name meant.

Digou means a ruler's fault. His purpose in this world was to remind Ling Zhou to love someone.

A seemingly gentle prince with sinister ambitions, seme (Ling Zhou) x a seemingly cool Grand Preceptor uke who coasts through life (Fan Shuxue)

▪"The immortal knows not what he divines." From "Passing Guifeng" by Yang Wanli

▪Fan Shuxue's name comes from: "Moonlight leaks through the woods, sparse as the last fallen snow." From Zhang Dai's Memories of Tao'an

▪Ling Zhou's name comes from: "I approach the prince's long sandbar and find the immortal's old pavilion." From Wang Bo's Preface to the Pavilion of Prince Teng

▪A touch of fantasy, and a short story.

Blurb dated 2024-06-30

Theme: Spring colors within the jar, dreamlands upon the pillow: that is immortality.