Just after the Chinese New Year, the weather is still chilly in the early spring.
In the bustling atmosphere inside the Qingping Academy in Lin'an City, it is almost as if the New Year festivities are still going on.
Everyone is crowded at the entrance of the academy, watching the young boy who has climbed to the top of the tall building.
The boy has a slender figure and stands on the high building while the cold wind howls, seeming as if it would blow him off.
"Are you kidding me? Does Xuan Wei really have something wrong with him? A grown man, it's fine to have a crush, but why would he publicly confess his love like this?"
"Tsk, tsk, tsk, he's definitely got some issues! Look at what he's like, thinking that Lu Jingzhou would actually like him back?"
"If I were Lu Jingzhou, I'd feel so embarrassed right now and might even want to strangle him!"
Xuan Wei opens his eyes, his clothes billowing and ringing in the fierce wind. Looking down from the three-story building, he is momentarily baffled.
A crush?
Confessing love?
Him?
Xuan Wei takes a while to come back to his senses.
Just a moment ago, he had gone through a hundred lives of cultivation over a thousand years, finally breaking through the shackles. As long as he could overcome the heavenly tribulation, he could ascend to immortality. But now, he finds himself here in the blink of an eye.
Is this the Heavenly Realm?
As Xuan Wei ponders blankly, a series of unfamiliar memories suddenly flood into his mind.
This place is called Shu Kingdom, the emperor's surname is Zhao, and it is different from the Shu Kingdom she is familiar with.
Here, she is still called Xuan Wei, the fourth child of the eldest branch of the merchant Xuan family, appearing as a male but actually female. This is because the Xuan family has a family rule that daughters cannot inherit the family property. The eldest branch had three daughters and no sons, and when she was finally born, she was also a girl.
With no other choice, Xuan Wei's mother, Madame Xuan Lin, gritted her teeth and declared Xuan Wei's gender as male, raising her as a boy from a young age.
But she herself is a girl, with emotions belonging to a girl.
After being sent to school as a boy, Xuan Wei met Lu Jingzhou.
Lu Jingzhou is a famous name in Lin'an City, a favored son of heaven. The whole Lin'an City, big and small, had heard of his name, for good reason.
His reputation was simply too outstanding!
He became a student at the age of ten, a talented scholar at thirteen, and a civil service candidate at sixteen!
Not only this, but Lu Jingzhou was also exceptionally handsome and beautiful, even more so than a woman!
Such a person, if placed in modern society, would be a combination of top student and school heartthrob!
As a fourteen or fifteen-year-old girl, during her prime years, Xuan Wei naturally developed affection for Lu Jingzhou while they were in the same school.
This matter was discovered by Xuan Wei's cousin who studied with her, Xuan Yang.
He urged her to confess her love to Lu Jingzhou in front of the entire school.
Xuan Yang is the young master of the second branch of the Xuan family, and Xuan Wei's cousin. In those days, when the eldest branch had no sons, everyone said that the huge Xuan family business would eventually fall on the second branch.
But coincidentally, Xuan Wei was born!
Xuan Lin's family announced to the outside that she was a boy.
Now that the eldest branch had a son to inherit the family business, and the second branch could only watch the duck that had almost been in their mouths fly away, they naturally didn't like Xuan Wei.
Growing up, Xuan Yang knew this very well and had never had any contact with Xuan Wei.
Whenever they met at home, he would ridicule and even insult Xuan Wei.
But the original body was a girl, even though she was raised as a boy, she had a thin skin and didn't dare to argue or curse with Xuan Yang, and was always bullied to tears by him, which only confirmed her lack of ability and effeminacy.
Because of this, Xuan Wei's grandmother, the old lady Xuan, somewhat disliked Xuan Wei.
Old Lady Xuan was a typical feudal woman, who believed that men should act like men in order to stand up and become the backbone of the family.
Obviously, Xuan Wei did not meet her requirements for choosing a successor.
However, since she was the son of the eldest branch, this status was somewhat favored, so Old Lady Xuan hesitated internally.
If at this time, Xuan Wei had rumours, such as...she was homosexual and could not continue the Xuan family line, then Old Lady Xuan would certainly replace Xuan Wei even if she was reluctant to do so, for the sake of the Xuan family's reputation.
Moreover, in order to save the family reputation, Xuan Wei might even be driven out of the house.
After replacing Xuan Wei, Xuan Yang, the eldest grandson of the second branch who had been suppressed by her, could naturally take over her position.