Jiang Shuyue, a highly capable teacher, transmigrates into a palace-intrigue novel as a low-ranking palace lady. The moment she opens her eyes, her family threatens her: If you don't help your elder legitimate sister rise to the rank of Consort, you'll die!
Getting the daughter of a fifth-rank official promoted to Consort is like getting a small-town exam ace into a top university? Easy!
Her elder sister isn't up to the task? She'll coach her! She can't dance? Jiang Shuyue will give her an intensive pre-exam training course! She's afraid she won't be able to keep the Emperor's favor? Jiang Shuyue knows a thing or two about bedroom skills, too!
After Jiang Shuyue successfully coaches her sister, her family grows wary and wants to get rid of her as soon as possible?
Then she'll coach someone else! Make them her students, and every one of them can earn a guaranteed promotion to Consort!
A hopeless case who can't be helped? No, there are no students Jiang Shuyue can't coach, only teachers who don't know how to coach!
Until one day, the Emperor suddenly realizes that all the fresh ideas in the harem were taught by that little Lady of Talent who was always hiding in the shadows!
And so Jiang Shuyue starts coaching herself! She takes on art, management, and teaching all at once, wins the Emperor's affection and the Empress's favor, and the consorts she helped get promoted all declare that she's trustworthy!
But to Jiang Shuyue, becoming a Consort isn't the finish line. Coaching children has no end. If she wants to survive, she has to keep competing!
She teaches the Noble Consort yoga, starts a reading group for the Ladies of Talent, and makes the Emperor's favorite concubine learn management. The entire harem suddenly changes its style:
The consorts clutch Three Years to Consort, Five Years of Practice Exams and weep bitterly. "Lady Jiang, can't you stop pushing us so hard? We promise we'll never compete for the Emperor's favor again. Isn't that enough?"
Jiang Shuyue: "Impossible. Absolutely impossible! There's no student I can't coach!"