[Spoiled, pampered, carefree young lady VS a seemingly proper but truly deranged heir]
Jiang Zhixian transmigrates into a book as an unnamed cannon-fodder character.
With the System's explicit instructions, she has to take the imperial examinations and win over Shen Moqing, the top scholar.
She thinks her target, Shen Moqing, is a mysterious figure who can change the course of events.
If she fails, she and her family will be exiled to Lingnan, the harshest place in the realm.
But the very first time she meets him, Jiang Zhixian kicks his page to the ground in the middle of the street, thoroughly offending him.
So she uses what little cunning she has to curry favor with him and bribe him...
Until one day, the System says, "Sorry, Host... You got the wrong target..."
Shen Moqing, heir to Lingnan: his parents disappeared, his family was confiscated, his adoptive father is a hypocrite, and he's dirt poor.
To uncover the truth behind his family's destruction, he abandons his title as heir, takes the imperial examinations, and becomes the youngest top scholar in the Great Yong, as well as its youngest overworked wage slave.
When he hears that the Minister of Revenue's daughter plans to take the imperial examinations, he deliberately approaches her, intending to use her to escape his adoptive father's control.
He smiles and accepts all of Jiang Zhixian's provocations and efforts to win him over.
But as they spend time together, he finds himself drawn to her, and one night, they lose themselves in a reckless passion.
Later, when the lively young woman is granted an imperial marriage to another man, he can no longer smile.
When Jiang Zhixian tells him they should go their separate ways, he nods and replies, "Fine."
In his heart, he wonders whether he should lock her away or kill everyone who covets her.
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After the mission to win him over fails,
Jiang Zhixian's entire family is exiled to Lingnan, and the once-privileged young lady becomes a commoner anyone can trample underfoot.
Her parents are nowhere to be found.
When she opens her eyes again, someone is staring down at her. It's Shen Moqing!
Jiang Zhixian silently edges away and asks in alarm, "Why am I here?"
The man across from her suddenly laughs. His warm breath brushes her ear as he says lightly, "Have you reviewed the material for the provincial examination today?"
Jiang Zhixian: !!! Didn't the System disappear?
The heroine's name comes from the line, "I wander up Jingting Mountain, listening idly to the pines as I sleep."
1. One-on-one romance, both leads are each other's first, happy ending.
2. Both leads have secret identities.
Theme: Where there's a will, there's a way.
