[A powerful female celestial master who controls the court × a peerlessly talented top scholar who fell from grace]
[Female protagonist reborn | Disguised as a man | Healing | Living under someone else's roof]
[Online: raising a puppy with peak devoted-husband energy]
In the seventh year of Shengping, Fu Youshu, born into poverty, placed first in all three imperial examinations and basked in his success.
Everyone praised the new top scholar as extraordinarily talented, refined, and peerless.
Only Rong Jin thought he was a fool.
At court, he constantly opposed her to show off his scholarly integrity, calling her a "calamity-bringing sorceress."
In private, he was a hopeless romantic who fell for a spoiled princess's lies and gave her his heart.
In the end, he was even framed, and his entire family was sentenced to execution.
That night, she sat tall in her saddle, looking down coldly as he died on the path to ruin he'd chosen for himself.
But only after he died did Rong Jin realize that he was the person she'd spent sixteen years searching for.
*
In the blink of an eye, Rong Jin returned to the day Fu Youshu was about to die.
He crawled out of the endless flames, begging her to save him.
A crystalline tear slid down his usually proud and beautiful face.
He was a bit of a fool.
But beautiful enough to take her breath away.
He had once done her a kindness. Taking him home as a pretty ornament wouldn't be so bad.
*
Before she was seven, Rong Jin grew up in the countryside. In her memories, there was always a blurred figure standing between her and danger.
After she turned seven, she became a blade in someone else's hand, surviving through patience and schemes.
By the time she was seventeen, she had become a celestial master with power over the court, and no one could lay a finger on her.
At nineteen, she found herself a husband with an exquisite face,
willing to play the qin for her, paint for her, grind ink and moisten brushes, and wash his hands to make her soup.
[Bonus Scene]
After Fu Youshu lost his memory, the princess led her people into the Rong residence.
She grabbed his wrist and insisted he was the former top scholar, and that Rong Jin had been deceiving him all along. She wanted to take him away.
"Where are you going, husband?"
Before he could take a step, Rong Jin's clear voice rang out behind him.
Before Fu Youshu could react, she merely gave a slight wave, and the servants dared to defy their betters:
They threw the princess out.
Rong Jin took his wrist and slowly wiped it again and again with a silk handkerchief.
With a cold laugh, she stroked his lips and made him lift his limpid eyes.
"Tonight, husband, you'll probably be crying and begging for mercy again."
[Reading Notes]
1. The female lead's identity as a woman is revealed to the male lead early on.
2. The male lead only falls for the princess because she used a love bug on him. Later, he truly falls for the female lead. Both are pure in body and heart.
3. The male lead loses his memory after being rescued and won't recover it until much later, but this doesn't affect the development of their romance.
4. A fictional world, very fictional.
5. Both are virgins; happy ending; romance-focused; extremely sweet.
6. The story opposes feudal superstition. The female lead has her reasons for becoming a celestial master.
(Blurb captured on 2025.4.21)
Theme: Uphold justice
