The Day My Top Scholar Title Was Stolen, I Married Beijing's Good-for-Nothing Crown Prince

When the gaokao results came out, Lin Zhi placed first in the entire city and claimed the top-scorer title. But her parents locked her in her room and forced her to give the spot to her good-for-nothing younger brother. One slap shattered all the dignity she had earned through eighteen years of putting up with them.

With nowhere else to turn, she saw a message from an unknown number light up the darkness: “Need help?” The sender was Shen Yan, the “disgraced crown prince” cast out by the capital’s Shen family. Three years earlier, they had taken everything from him when he refused an arranged marriage. He started from nothing and built himself into a rising power. He had pored over her grades from the past three years for one reason: she shouldn’t be trapped here.

The Lin family threw a grand banquet to celebrate their son becoming top scorer. Shen Yan took the stage as a mysterious sponsor, leaving the room in an uproar: “Mr. Shen Yan, the new chairman of the capital’s Shen Group.” He took Lin Zhi’s hand. “The daughter you didn’t want, I’ll marry. You needn’t worry about her future anymore.”

From having everything taken away to being lifted up, two people cast aside by their families began with a marriage of convenience and rebuilt their lives atop each other’s ruins. When the Lin family begged for forgiveness and the Shen family tried to tear them apart, they publicly stood up for his wife and showed everyone that the rejected can live better than any of you.