The Female Top Scholar Tears Off Her Official Robe

Core appeal: Disguised as a man, she takes first place in all three imperial examinations and makes her political rivals fall at her feet.

The thrills: She tears open her official robe to reveal she is a woman during a court debate, wields the classics of the sages like a killing blade, then reopens the imperial examinations to women after reshaping the court. Her students kneel all along Zhuque Street.