Rong Guan, the award-winning homeroom teacher known as a study machine, lived up to everyone’s expectations and died suddenly at her desk.
In a careless twist of fate, she transmigrated into the unfavored Noble Consort of the Nan Zhao Kingdom!
But with the empress’s seat vacant, Noble Consort Rong Guan was put in charge of overseeing the six palaces.
Looking at the roomful of young girls who had come to pay their respects, Rong Guan was reminded of her high school class in the moments before her death.
The girls never studied or worked hard. Their goals had nothing to do with getting into Tsinghua or Peking University. All they could think about was scheming for favor. Rong Guan was furious.
Looks like she would have to bring out the Hengshui study regimen.
Consort Jing sang and danced all day: “Make her read the Four Books, then I’ll quiz her on the Great Learning!”
Lady Luo planned to poison Concubine Liu’s food: “No dinner until you’ve finished memorizing Ethics and the Rule of Law!”
Lady Xia was sneaking soup to the emperor again: “Take her off to practice calligraphy! With handwriting like chicken scratch, how dare she send him soup?”
Under Rong Guan’s relentless efforts to push the girls to excel, the entire harem flourished, studying hard until dawn.
Practice exercises every lesson, tests every week, exams every month. The women of the harem had no time to compete for favor; they wished they could recite their books even while walking.
At last, the emperor, with nothing better to do, remembered that there was a harem full of beautiful women. The moment he stepped inside, the Noble Consort tore into him.
“Only sixty points on state policy? Has your brain been soaked in soup?”
“Twenty points in criminal law? Our Nan Zhao Kingdom might as well be destroyed!”
“You know nothing about the Four Books and Five Classics! You’re the worst class I’ve ever taught!”
They say that night, the emperor cried all night in Jingren Palace.
Everyone said Noble Consort Rong had gone mad. But no one expected that under her madness, the Nan Zhao Kingdom, on the brink of collapse, would come back to life.
Haha, the Imperial Concubine is so adorable! She reminds me of my homeroom teacher!