Beyond The Scholars: A Couple's Devotion
儒林史外，举案齐腰
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- Completed
- Length
- 166k Words
- Genre
- Ancient Romance
- Subgenre
- Palace & Household Intrigue
- Updated
- 2y ago
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- Fanqie
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This book is a work participating in an ancient book essay competition. It has a specific track and is a second adaptation based on "The Scholars". Taking Du Shaoqing in The Scholars as the protagonist, the characters in the book are connected together. Although The Scholars tells the stories of many people, this book integrates these characters, their characteristics, and what happened into one story. Use modern people's three views to evaluate and understand ancient people's thinking. I hope readers will like it. I also hope that friends who have read The Scholars can find the prototype characters in it.
I saw the update in one go, it's so cool! ! ! Big cheers for the author! I really like reading novels with female characters as the protagonists. Often, a lot of reality can be seen from a female perspective. The heroine in the story is very smart, brave, and independent. She does not rely on the male protagonist or act as a foil for the male protagonist like in previous conventional novels. Throughout the storyline, the female protagonist is very courageous when faced with difficult situations, and the character creation is very good! When it comes to the male protagonist, it is different from other novels. There is no misunderstanding of the female protagonist, but unconditional trust in the heroine. The two act as one heart and one mind, cleverly solving many problems, and the plot is closely connected. In addition, the author has excellent writing skills and delicately expresses personal emotions very truly. I am looking forward to the next development of the story…
The author is very courageous in daring to challenge the classics, and he should be quite confident in his writing style. Fortunately, the writing is quite good. Du Shaoqing's three views in it not only make people lament the ideological consciousness of the predecessors, but few people can surpass it to this day.
Zhao and Du are in complete contrast. Zhao fits the character of the same person. He is handsome and tall, but not too formal. Du is a scholar labeled as weak, but he has a broad mind and respects women.
The book is very exciting. I liked Zhao Danqiu very much at first, but after seeing Zhao Danqiu's various designs, I felt that he was a bit selfish. On the other hand, Du Shaoqing, as long as Sun Xiangxian is happy, he is willing to make it happen.
The plot at the beginning also has a sense of mystery. If you look at it with modern thinking, you can tell at a glance that the Taoist priest is a charlatan. However, according to the background of the story, the heroine is very thorough in everything she does and cannot find any flaws.
All kinds of beauties, all kinds of interesting things, all linked together, the author is so good at writing, this book is a must for otaku fighting novels. If we want to make a ranking list of this genre, then this book will definitely be ranked at the top.
This book is good. The vernacular is used skillfully and freely in the novel, and the characters are portrayed in depth and delicately. Especially the superb satirical techniques are used in the novel. It does not disgrace the classical Chinese satirical literature "The Scholars" at all.
It's interesting. Although I've watched it for so long, I still have a deep impression of the heroine trying to catch a turtle in a urn for a Taoist priest, signing and stamping her signature, making her aunt eat chili peppers to make her embarrassed, and being mute and unable to explain the pain of eating Coptis chinensis.
This book is quite interesting. The protagonist must avenge himself if he dares to love or hate. Such a decisive protagonist is very popular. The author's writing style is also very good, and the characteristics of each character are also described very well.