The Archmage's Forbidden Classroom [Western Fantasy]

(Complete) Beverly is a poor student at a magic academy, and her black hair makes her a target of discrimination. She dreads Archmage Elias’s classes because he’s demanding and sharp-tongued. Every day, she worries he’ll fail her. Then one day, in the dim lair of an evil dragon, Elias is smeared with the dragon’s aphrodisiac fluids. “I ended up like this because I saved you. Don’t you think you should repay me?” With tears in her eyes, she bites her lip and agrees. The man strokes the crown of her soft hair and sighs. “Good girl.” Beverly blushes scarlet. - Elias considers it a night of humiliation. Embarrassed by what happened that night, Beverly makes a point of avoiding him. In her second semester, she applies to transfer out of his class. The day after she turns in the form, he corners her against a wall. His tall figure looms over her, his jade-green eyes narrowing as he asks in a dangerous tone, “Do you think you can escape my control?” - Later, Beverly decides to end their relationship and run away early. But when she opens her eyes, she finds herself locked inside a dark, cramped church, her hands and feet tightly bound. The man clamps a vicious hand around Beverly’s throat. “Darling, tell me, how dare you run away?” Archmage x magic apprentice An old flame catches fire: sharp-tongued older man x resilient, slow-to-catch-on problem student Possessive romance, one-on-one, both inexperienced, heroine is an adult from the beginning, Western fantasy, loosely medieval setting Coming soon: The Magic Academy’s Top Student Takes Me by Force Nia is an impoverished student, looked down on by everyone at the magic academy. Her father is a drunk, her mother is a prostitute, and she has a whole crowd of younger siblings to feed. She’s at the very bottom of the academy. No one knows she has another identity: the top student Lancelot’s mistress. Lancelot was born to a noble family. Handsome, gifted in magic, and revered by all, he’s a celebrated figure at the academy and throughout the empire. No one would ever connect him with lowly Nia. Even when she lies naked with him, she often feels as though she’s dreaming. Her disreputable relationship with him provides for her needs. What increasingly unsettles her is her benefactor’s growing possessiveness. . On the eve of graduation, she decides to end this absurd relationship and leave for another country. But her carriage is stopped along the way. As Nia panics, someone suddenly pushes open the carriage door and climbs inside. The man backs her into a cramped corner and presses a large hand to her still-flat belly. “Darling, where do you think you’re going with our child?” Bound hand and foot in chains and lying on Lancelot’s bed, she finally understands: The moment she made a deal with Lancelot so her father wouldn’t sell her to a brothel, she had already pawned her soul to the devil. - Lancelot was born into the greatest magical family in the empire. According to his family’s plans, he should graduate from the Imperial Magic Academy, become the head of the royal mage corps, marry a woman of equally noble birth, and have children with distinguished bloodlines... He absolutely should not be trying to marry the daughter of a drunk and a prostitute from the slums, against everyone’s wishes. Sharp-tongued, untouchable top student x clear-headed, resilient magic apprentice #Possessive romance, one-on-one, both inexperienced, happy ending Theme: Knowledge changes your fate