The Pushed-to-the-Limit Top Scholar Blushes (GB)

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One-sided pining at first | Falling out | Faking death | Rekindled love

Characters: A domineering, ruthless princess x a shy, broken-hearted top scholar

New blurb:

Jiang's perspective: People always say a scholar's integrity mustn't be compromised, and an honest person's boundaries mustn't be crossed. Jiang Xiaosheng took advantage of her status and did both.

Well, now she'd pushed Chu Xunzong too far. He might just stab her in the back.

Chu's perspective: People always say the Dongyang Princess is promiscuous and ruthless, and that no one should get close to her. The princess is heartless, so no one should fall for her. Yet Chu Xunzong, the fool, fell for her anyway.

Well, now he'd given her his heart and had to worry that Jiang Xiaosheng might dump him at any moment.

[The text may occasionally be revised. The author is responsible only for the official version on Jinjiang.]

*Content warning: The female lead is not a virgin, while the male lead is. The female lead has dominant tendencies early on.

Old blurb:

That year, with apricot blossoms falling in the spring rain, the Chu family of Jiangnan produced a top scholar.

Chu Xunzong had studied under a renowned scholar, who strongly recommended him. He went to the capital for the imperial examinations and placed third, bringing the Chu family great prestige.

The matriarch of the Xie household, one of the capital's great clans, was celebrating her sixtieth birthday, and Chu Xunzong was invited to offer his congratulations.

In the Xie family plum garden, beneath the warm sun, a crowd chatted and laughed. Suddenly, a proud and dazzling figure caught everyone's eye. He looked up at her, only for the beauty to cast him a disdainful glance before walking briskly away.

Chu Xunzong immediately decided she was the most beautiful woman in the world. Curious, he asked his colleagues who she was.

They laughed at him for not knowing the name of the Dongyang Princess. Though she was stunning, the princess was like a lovely flower edged with thorns and poison. No one could get close. A little physical pain was the least of your worries; if she plucked out your heart, there would be no taking it back.

Chu Xunzong smiled and shook his head. At the time, he didn't believe a word of it. He thought they were exaggerating, spreading rumors. How could a young woman who had yet to marry toy with people's hearts so easily? It wasn't until he willingly let the princess's whip fall across his back that the disdain he'd felt came back to slap him in the face. He, too, was just one of the people she'd toyed with.

Jiang Xiaosheng, the Dongyang Princess, was a woman of extraordinary status. Her mother was a princess regent who ruled from behind the curtain, and her father belonged to the Xie clan, a distinguished family with a century-long history in the capital.

She was made a county princess at birth, then exceptionally elevated to princess by the emperor on her coming-of-age ceremony, receiving the title "Dongyang."

On the occasion of her grandmother's birthday, she had no choice but to attend the celebration at the Xie residence. By chance, she overheard her father trying to arrange a marriage between the Xie sisters and the top scholar.

Jiang Xiaosheng had never done anything to make life easier for the Xie family. Standing in a corner, she quietly studied the top scholar, whose skin was fair and features refined, then smiled faintly.

After a while, she thought to herself, "You're lucky, you know."

Theme: Developing a healthy perspective on love.