The Top Scholar's Scheme: The Caged Sparrow of the Eastern Palace

Name: The Top Scholar's Scheme: The Caged Sparrow of the Eastern Palace
Author: Young Master Xingyue

状元谋：东宫囚雀

by Young Master Xingyue (星月公子)

Status: Completed
Length: 240k Words
Genre: Ancient Romance
Subgenre: Ancient-Style Life
Updated: 6mo ago
Source: Fanqie

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Synopsis

[Two powerful leads, both devoted to one another + woman disguised as a man + obsessive, unhinged love + political intrigue + the male lead pursues his wife]

Male lead: Gentle and refined on the surface, deranged within.

Female lead: Disguised as a man, clear-headed and self-possessed.

She disguises herself as a man to clear her family's name.

Instead, she catches the eye of an obsessive, unhinged crown prince.

He thinks he's the one pulling the strings, never realizing that in the end, he will lose to her for the rest of his life.

She dresses as a man, and he thinks he's fallen for another man.

After drunkenly discovering she's a woman, he doesn't dare speak or face her.

But then she goes out with another man wearing women's clothes.

All he can do is suffer in silence, because he means nothing to her.

Once her family's name is cleared, he pursues her for a thousand miles.

He kneels before her parents as the heir to the throne, only to receive a cold laugh and the words, “We're even now.”

He learns to let go and finally understands love, thinking that's how the rest of his life will be.

He never expects that the woman who flew away will fly back again.

He offers her the empire as her bride-price and binds her to him for life.

She uses her clear judgment as a blade, breaking through all his schemes.

Love is redemption, a happy ending, and the one scheme he will never be able to unravel.

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It is indeed a slow-burning article. But the character design is wonderful, the prince's crazy criticism is very strong, and Shen Bao is so heart-wrenching. 😢😢😢 Prince Gou must treat Shen Bao well in the future. Looking forward to reversing dog training in the future!!! It's over, I can't read any other books at all. My heart will be confessed here during this time. 💕💕💕💕 Shen Bao and Prince Gou must be happy!
6 likes7mo ago
It's a slow-burning story, [early stage] madly criticized the prince for imprisoning her, [later stage] she took the initiative to return to the cage and started training the dog. It's not a cool novel, it's about love and redemption. As an author, I was carried along by two powerful characters whose IQs were online all the way. I was tortured to the point of heart-wrenching 😢 😢 The torture was not my intention, it was the life they lived. The "prison" in the first half - he used power as a cage and tenderness as bait, trying to trap her by his side and use her as a pawn. He thought he had everything under control, but he didn't know that he was the one who sank first. The "prison" in the second half - she flew away, then flew back by herself, closed the cage door, and locked him in. She came back not to forgive him, but to show him what love could be like. Shen Shutong can win not because she is more ruthless or smarter than him. It's because she had a happy childhood, her parents loved her, and she knew what love looked like. The only thing he couldn't break in his life was her beauty.
5 likes7mo ago
"Like a line of defense with gaps, and like a compromise that can no longer be fought for." Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh since the author is so good at writing? Forget it if you torture me to death, my heart is worthless. Who hasn't cried after reading this sentence? I'll call you daddy!! 😢😢😢
3 likes7mo ago

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