Gentle, theatrical female teacher × cocky, double-standard young general
A young woman from the Chu family in Jiangnan, Chu Wan, rejects a marriage proposal. She is beautiful and refined, gentle and virtuous, every frown and smile radiating feminine grace. Yet when the betrothal gifts arrive, she turns the match down.
No one could have imagined that this delicate flower, who rode in a sedan chair whenever she went out and grew breathless after just a few steps, would buy a plot of land months later and become a teacher at a local academy.
People scoff, predicting she'll soon come slinking back to depend on a man's arm.
So they wait.
One year… five years… six years…
Until they see the delicate flower's name in a Beijing gazette's “Best Teachers” feature.
Everyone exclaims, “City folk really are something. They call her a delicate flower?”
[Hero's perspective]
Xie Yun was an utterly ordinary arts student. Then, in a documentary, he saw Chu Yi, a “male teacher” who had founded a school for girls.
He scoffed. What good intentions could a man have in founding a school for girls? But as the documentary showed the mysterious Mr. Chu, he blinked and transmigrated into the body of the second son of General Xie.
Even stranger, Xie Yun discovers that he can talk to the legendary Mr. Chu from a distance. He starts their conversations hoping for a laugh, only to discover:
First, Mr. Chu is a woman.
Second, she is the woman who rejected the betrothal gifts he sent.
Third, in just one year, Mr. Chu has taught students who passed the county-level civil service examination.
Xie Yun's feelings are complicated. He volunteers to transfer from the capital to Jiangnan to meet Mr. Chu, but then…
[Reader's guide]
1. One-on-one romance and mutual healing; the secondary pairing has plenty of melodrama.
2. Set in a Song-inspired world. Please don't take the details too seriously.
3. A modern man transmigrates into a local woman. The two leads can talk to each other inside their heads, which means the heroine's System is basically the hero's “WeChat call.”
Theme: Never forget your original aspirations
