Dragon First Lesson

Chen Yue woke up signing papers she did not remember and stared at a room full of people who expected the old teacher to be cruel. The memory of the novel slammed into her a second later, along with the ugly part of the plot. She was the villainess teacher who was meant to damage her student, feed the wrong side, and vanish before the ending. But Chen had spent years working with modern systems, contracts, and people who lied with a straight face. She knew one bad choice could still send everything off the rails. So she started with the smallest rebellion. She refused to play the role written for her, and that meant noticing bruised hands, bad food, and the student everyone else had already ...