After Breaking Off the Engagement, the Top Scholar Regretted It
退婚后，状元郎他后悔了
- Status
- Completed
- Length
- 340k Words
- Genre
- Ancient Romance
- Subgenre
- Palace & Household Intrigue
- Updated
- 6mo ago
- English
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Other names
- One Glance at the Princess, and His Life Is Ruined? The Top Scholar Couldn't Be Happier!一见公主误终身？状元狂喜中！Alternate title on Fanqie
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The male and female leads are superbly designed. The male lead is a shrewd and ambitious newly appointed top scholar, full of cunning and resourcefulness. I find this kind of writing incredibly realistic. Striving for power and profit is perfectly normal for those from humble backgrounds; those who are aloof and arrogant go against human nature.
This book is truly amazing! It's not a typical "broken engagement" story with a dramatic "wife-chasing-after-the-crowd" trope. It features a childhood sweetheart and a top scholar vying for the female lead, and the female lead isn't a naive, innocent type—she's incredibly intelligent!
It's well-written and the plot flows smoothly, but it would be even better without a secondary couple.
It's really good! I absolutely love the interactions between the male and female leads! But I hope the supporting couple doesn't have too much screen time.
The male lead breaks away from the clichéd character setups common in current novels. He climbs his way up from the bottom, is selfish (but easily seduced by the female lead's beauty), and laughs ecstatically when happy (hahaha, it's really funny).
It's a great show. The female lead is smart and cute, with the dignity of a princess. The male lead is very interesting, and his obsessive and affectionate behavior is quite amusing. He's very careful and cautious, which is exactly what a male lead should be like, doing everything for the female lead.
This is the first time I've seen this kind of character setup for male and female leads on Tomato Book. The female lead has her own ideas, and the male lead is a bit of a "petty tyrant," which really fits the title! At first, based on the synopsis, I thought the female lead was the weak type, and I was just looking for a lighthearted read to kill time.
This is true female-oriented fiction! The male lead is hopelessly in love with the female lead. Unlike those stories that claim to be female-oriented but are actually just stories that torture the female characters. This is true female-oriented fiction! This is true female-oriented fiction!!! Author, please update soon! I stayed up all night reading it and I'm so looking forward to it! 😳😳
Shen Jiaying ♥ Zhou Yi'an A princess of noble birth × a cold-faced but devoted scholar from a poor family, love at first sight + marriage of convenience + a wife-chasing frenzy, extreme contrast in social status, the male lead goes from avoiding suspicion to obsessively loving her, the male lead has a lot of inner monologues, he is both lecherous and perverted.
The male lead, a shrewd and self-serving individual who struggled to rise from dire straits and climbed the social ladder by any means necessary, instantly falls head over heels in love the moment he sees the female lead. Money, power, future prospects, and even his life, which he previously valued, all become secondary to her.