Whoa!
Even though many had vaguely anticipated it, when Leyu admitted she really was not just a key player but the outright ringleader in the recent Dongyang Rebellion, plenty of students were still taken aback.
Technically, famous people coming to teach at the Imperial Academy was an old tradition, but there were all kinds of "famous." After all, how could someone currently in the thick of major events have time to swing by the capital to report in—and casually teach a class on the side? People who could juggle making history and teaching it were rare beasts indeed.
Moreover, Glory had been sliding downhill for decades, but the biggest events were always unspeakable palace intrigues. Its decline was like food slowly going past expiration—no one realized it was inedible till fate finally took a bite. That made the only history to truly grab student attention the kind that touched the entire nation: either a world-shaking catastrophe, or the now-infamous Dongyang Rebellion.
