A Little Moonlit Tower at Dawn

From a Commoner's Daughter to the First Woman Official to Found a State School for Girls

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Everyone in the village says the Xie family is cursed. All three branches have daughters, and each has only one child, leaving them without an heir.

Xie Chao, who has just transmigrated, is delighted. She's in ancient times, but she's an only child!

With the whole family doting on their one and only daughter, Xie Chao wants to learn to read, so she does. She wants to study, so she does. If the boys in other families have something, she wants it too.

Xie Chao: "I want a child husband, too."

The whole family: What?!

Xie Chao won't accept a marriage arranged by her parents without ever meeting the groom.

It's nothing personal. If she raises him herself, she can trust him. -3-

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Qi Rong's family died early, and his hopes of studying were gone. Then one day, the little girl he'd played with since childhood suddenly asked him:

"Do you want to be my child husband?"

He nodded, and Qi Rong entered the Xie household.

He did the laundry, cooked, and cleaned, making sure Xie Chao was comfortable. But he still wanted to study. When little Xie Chao asked him why, he said: He wanted to study so he could take the imperial examinations, take them so he could become an official, and become an official... so he could give her a good life.

But Xie Chao said, "I want to study too."

Little Qi Rong didn't understand. Even if a woman studied well, she couldn't take the imperial examinations and become an official, so why study?

She said, "Then let's make a school for women that isn't for the imperial examinations, but for learning what we love, distinguishing right from wrong, and finding our place in the world."

There isn't one? Then we'll build one!

She doesn't just want to study herself. She wants all the women in the world to study alongside her!

1. Shameless, clever female lead × gentle, refined, beautiful male lead

2. 1v1, both leads are strong

3. The early part focuses on family life; in the middle, the female lead builds her career while the male lead takes the imperial examinations; later, they both enter government

4. A long, slow-paced ensemble story that will explore the fates of the supporting characters in detail

5. This is a fictional setting and does not aim for historical accuracy. No specific dynasty is stated, and the terminology is deliberately vague.

6. Blurb updated on 25.9.9 and backed up with screenshots

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