Keep Her at Bay

Ah, don't mind me.

I'm just forcing myself to write this so I can get it approved and make the rankings.

I don't even know what I'm going to write.

I'm making up every chapter as I go.

Coming soon: Beauty Like a Flower Beyond the Clouds

Female Lead | Adorably airheaded and lovesick, good at pretending, decisive and ruthless later on

Male Lead | Ascetic and proud, skilled at manipulation, comes to his senses and falls hard later on

1:

Wen Xinyue, an overworked office drone who died from working overtime, transmigrates into the body of an imperial princess. Her first order of business: win herself a divine tutor!

Her mother, the empress, taps the table and makes her repeat herself...

Of course, it's to seize the throne, seize the throne, seize the throne! (Softly: marry him, marry him, marry him.)

But he actually wants me to marry someone else for the sake of the throne? Fine. You're so high and mighty, you don't even care to be my consort. All you want is to raise me into a puppet emperor...

Then don't blame me when I become emperor and appoint you as...

"The way my tutor teaches me the art of ruling is just too irresistible. I want to pull off his belt."

"Aww, his Adam's apple moved while he was kneeling to remonstrate!"

"Help, his eyelashes are so long when he teaches me archery!"

Jing Yuan, on the surface: "Your Highness, please behave yourself." In reality: his fingertips are trembling.

Everyone knows that I love only Jing Yuan, but Jing Yuan alone is convinced that

my lovestruck act is a disguise.

2:

He taught me how to play Go, but became the jade stone on my board that I found hardest to give up.

When snow fell on Jing Yuan's shoulders in Yanlin's imperial capital, Wen Xinyue always imagined it was moonlight, too pure for the mortal world to touch.

Day after day, year after year, the Grand Tutor diligently studied his scrolls, pushed her toward the throne, governed on her behalf, and taught her that "the perfect man has no self."

But did he ever imagine that one day she would turn around and strip him of his position, imprison him in the inner palace, remove his crown and belt, and teach him that "perfect nature leaves no trace"?

"Does Your Majesty want the loyalty I offer on my knees, or the true feelings I offer lying down?"

The sound of a jade belt hitting the floor shattered the silence in the room.

Candlelight shone in his eyes, but when he looked at her, they were still an age-old frozen lake.

"Back then, Tutor said, 'Love brings ruin to the state.' Now... whose state is being ruined?"

In the end, to break the chain of refusals he had set up, she would have to use the art of sharing peaches that he had taught her.

It turned out the most brilliant scheme

was to make the clear-minded fall, and the heartless harbor delusions.

World setting: Men and women are equal, not a female-dominated world.

Theme: Love requires souls that stand as equals