The False Ascetic Master Is Seduced into Ruin

Three years ago, Zhang Panyue was the celebrated private tutor to the young ladies of the Shen family, putting on airs in a gilded den of pleasure.

Her star pupil acted obedient and pitiful for her, showering her with all kinds of rare treasures. But Lin Yingtang only enjoyed the flirtation, refusing to accept even a penny's worth of her sincere feelings. She kept her at arm's length, treating it all as a game.

After all, one of them was half-blind and unable to see clearly, while the other was half-mute and taciturn.

Three years later, she had changed her name to Lin Yingtang and fallen into destitution. She became the child bride of the Shen family's foolish young master and was thrown into a temple, where she survived on tree bark for three years.

After all, in an arranged marriage where the bride and groom have never met, it's rare for them to have seen each other before the wedding.

If she could become part of the Shen family, it didn't matter whom she married.

On their wedding night, the veil was lifted, and there stood Miss Shen herself, silent as ever.

One of them had entered a blind marriage, the other a mute one.

All traces of her former pitiful girlhood were gone. Miss Shen had learned every bit of her old swagger, along with all the tricks she'd once used.

In three years, Miss Shen had made astonishing progress, delivering one outrageous line after another.

"You haven't met my younger brother either. How about you pretend I'm him?"

Times had changed. Now it was Lin Yingtang who wept like a pear blossom in the rain. "No... I've always known it was you who wanted to marry me."

"Teacher, so you like them wild."

"Teacher, I'm not learning well. Teach me."

"Teacher, when you can't see, whose face are you thinking of?"

"Teacher, do you regret marrying me?"

Lin Yingtang could take no more and slapped her through her tears.

"I regret ever seducing you."

Her student stared at her in stunned silence, unable to move.

Lin Yingtang cried again. "If you're not going to move, get off."

Note: The female protagonist is severely nearsighted! She'll get treatment and glasses later.

!!! A warning up front: Men only appear as cannon fodder, and nothing else!!!!

The day the Shen family's eldest daughter learned that her teacher had become the foolish younger brother's child bride, she was furious.

So furious that she climbed through the window into the fool's room in the middle of the night and nearly strangled her brother to death.

She hated herself for not being that fool, hated the matchmaker who had carelessly arranged the marriage, and hated Lin Yingtang for not fighting back.

Yet in the midst of her fury, a trace of strange excitement rose within her...

If a teacher can become family, why can't she become my lover?

[The world insists that marriages be arranged without the bride and groom meeting, and that men and women keep their distance. But remember: even if your eyes are blind and you cannot see, your heart should be like a clear mirror.]

--Teacher, can your heart see me now?

Theme: To be alive is to keep flourishing