Time Difference

The Court and the Study

At the court of the Great Liang, Pei Yan was renowned as a cold-faced chancellor.

He became chancellor at thirty. His methods were ruthless, his words sharp, and he could write a memorial faster than a blade could strike. The court officials feared him, and even the emperor treated him with respect. Yet there was one thing that could make the cold-faced chancellor frown: the academy.

More precisely, the woman who presided over Qingyuan Academy in the south of the city, Shen Zhiwei.