Everyone knows that A Wu's cousin is a romantic and talented scholar.
They say he is handsome and dashing, as free as the wind.
They say he loves writing popular tales and painting erotic pictures, and his works are always snapped up at the study.
They say that after placing third in the imperial examinations, he refused to marry a princess or noblewoman, declaring, "I love only my cousin A Wu. I will love no other for my whole life, and stay by her side until our hair turns white."
Everyone envies her wonderful match. Only A Wu knows the truth: there is no perfect match or beloved at all.
That cousin in the distance is her secret identity!
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Xie Yun, heir to the Prince of Huai'an, is like a solitary moon in the high heavens, a pine tree dusted with frost alongside a crane.
A gentleman holds jade in his heart, refining himself as though carving it.
The only son of the Prince of Huai'an and the Grand Princess Who Guards the Nation, Xie Yun was born to have thousands bow before him. His status was beyond compare.
In this world, there was nothing he could not obtain if he wanted it, and nothing he could not have if he sought it.
Except for one woman of no particular renown.
Her dark hair piled high, her waist slender and graceful. Peach blossoms colored her cheeks, and her eyes were like dew.
Her red lips parted timidly. She was so endearing, so easy to cherish.
Yet she had already married another.
A Wu visited Xie Yun's dreams every night.
In those dreams, she wore the robes of a titled lady, her arm linked with a man whose face was blurred.
He would seize her pale, slender wrist, and her expression would suddenly turn cold.
In a soft, distant voice, she would say, "Your Highness, please show some restraint."
Whenever he thought of it, Xie Yun would be consumed by jealousy, tossing and turning all night.
All his life, he had prided himself on being a gentleman. For her alone, he cast aside his laughable pride, reached for a rose growing beyond the wall, and became her secret lover.
All for the occasional glance of affection from the woman he cherished.
On quiet nights, he would drink until he was dead drunk, deceiving himself again and again:
"She has feelings for me. She must care about me, at least a little."
Until one day, he finally learned that the "husband" was A Wu herself.
Xie Yun went mad.
* A player in love x a man who thinks he's the other man
* A sweet, rebellious girl x a cold, chaste beauty on a pedestal (not really!)
A few things to know before reading:
1. The heroine's main plot is building her career, while the hero's main plot is pursuing her. So the romance takes up more of the story.
2. This is not a traditional imperial-examination novel. The exam system includes many original elements, and the exam process is only briefly covered. Fans of imperial-examination stories, please don't scrutinize it. Thank you!
3. The hero is emotionally stable at first, but gradually breaks down and goes mad later on. Read at your own risk.
4. Set in a fictionalized Ming era, with no historical figures as models.
5. One true pairing, one-on-one, happy ending.
6. Many readers consider this a red flag, so here's a warning: there is a side-character NTR plot. Pure-love fans, proceed with caution.
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After I Toyed with the Tyrant and Cast Him Aside
When the decree summoning her to the palace arrived, everyone said Ying Shu would one day rise to great heights.
No one knew that she had once seduced Li Weiqian, the noble, handsome, and powerful Prince Regent, to save herself, and spent a night with him.
After escaping her predicament, Ying Shu schemed to get away from him.
Before long, her family sent her into the palace, where she was granted the title of empress.
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On the day of her coronation, the Prince Regent led his army in breaking through the palace gates.
The gentleman who had once been as pure as frost and as solitary as the moon, his gaze never lowered to the dust below, now had a bloodied face like a demon from hell.
He smiled grimly. "Your Majesty, it's been a long time. I've missed you dearly."
Ying Shu trembled, shaking uncontrollably.
But Li Weiqian acted as if no one else were there. He placed the bloodstained phoenix crown on her head and whispered, "You've become the empress you always dreamed of. Are you satisfied?"
Ying Shu looked terrified. "Li Weiqian, you've gone mad..."
He leaned close to her ear. "I've been mad since the day I met you."
Though he knew the woman he loved had ulterior motives, he still lost himself in her tenderness.
And she transformed into an empress enthroned above all.
"You want to be empress? Then I'll take the throne for you."
"If you try to leave me again, I'll kill you, and we'll be buried together."
Together in life, together in death.
You belong with me in this life, the next, and every life after. You will never leave me.
A beauty with a little bit of cunning x an obsessive, lovesick attack dog
Theme: Learn to understand and respect each other
I think the heroine and the third prince are a bit morally kidnapped. It is understandable that the imperial concubine wants to accompany Tan Hwa Lang. Why does she have to keep her for her own sake? I feel like the imperial concubine will be in pain every day when she is alive and looking at the third prince.
I have almost finished reading the whole book. I feel that the plot of the whole book and the characters of the male and female protagonists have a lot worth talking about, so I will write a long review for the author Baobao!
First of all, praise the baby's imagination. It's a very good idea for Ah Wu to escape the family she lives with by disguising herself as a man in the imperial examination. Also, calling her book-writing vest Chen Fu her fiancé is also an idea that can emanate many stories, so in the first half of the story In part, I think Ah Wu's career line is very interesting to write. At the same time, Bao Bao deliberately created Xie Yun's character as a gentleman, so that he would have a strong sense of betrayal when he fell in love with Ah Wu, thus causing Xie Yun's emotions and reason to conflict. This is indeed an element that attracts readers to continue reading. But when it comes to the full text, I personally feel that there are still many places worthy of Baobao's exploration into their characters, Ah Wu's career line, and their emotional line.
From my point of view, compared to the prince, Ah Wu was the real "great talent" in the early period. As an orphan, Ah Wu lived in a family that did not love her very much for decades. She had neither parents to supervise her nor teachers to teach her. She was able to succeed in the first imperial examination. To get the top prize in the exam is equivalent to giving a five-year-old girl a set of basic textbooks. She has no teacher and relies on self-study after enlightenment. At the age of fifteen or sixteen, she stood out from a group of graduate students and passed the Ph. D. Exam. She is said to be smart and eager to learn. After thinking about the imperial examination method, he decided to implement it very efficiently without any mistakes, which deserves a decisive decision.
Therefore, I feel that this kind of Ah Wu, rather than a "talented girl" who is as weak and gentle as a weeping willow on the shore and a little playful, should be a "crazy student" with his own goals and ambitions like her father Tang Qianxian. After falling in love with the prince, when the identity of "Chen Fu" affects the two people's relationship, compared with "distrusting the prince and worrying about being betrayed by the prince". "Abandon", I think there is a more suitable reason for her to choose to maintain Chen Fu's identity - she refused to give up the opportunity to fly out of the cage and use her own voice to change the world for the so-called "love". She remembers what her parents told her when she was a child: to cultivate one's morality, harmonize the family, govern the country and bring peace to the world.
At the same time, when Bao Bao was portraying Xie Yun, I felt that the character of the "gentleman" was a little "excessive", or that the emphasis was too much on his deportment and the things he had done and his impact on the people. At the same time, under the upbringing of a father with a rough and heroic personality and a mother with a heroic appearance, I think that if the child's character is to be so calm, certain changes will be required.
Next is the emotional line of the male and female protagonists. Based on the above analysis, my personal opinion is that because Bao Bao has set Ah Wu's character as a weak and affectionate girl, she mostly looks up to Xie Yun, so that this love is a bit too humble. Xie Yun's love for Ah Wu originated from a sudden glance, but he did not sublimate it after learning about Ah Wu's talents. Baobao gave me the feeling that Chen Fu in the copy and Ah Wu in the article were cut into two people, and Chen Fu's "free and unrestrained" character setting in the copy was not integrated back into Ah Wu. Therefore, the one who fell in love with Xie Yun became a beautiful and gentle beauty, and would worry about whether Xie Yun would marry her. What makes me more disappointed is that Xie Yun, from discovering that Ah Wu wrote the storybook to discovering that Chen Fu is Ahwu, his focus from the beginning to the end is on his own feelings, from the jealousy of his beloved girl scheming for others to the anger of being deceived. Maybe it was Ahwu when the storybook was released. The look on his face was hurried, perhaps because Chen Fu, who was kneeling in the Jinluan Hall, was too ordinary for the normally rebellious new emperor. He did not have the slightest emotion to be amazed by the talent of his beloved woman, nor did he think about whether his courtship would delay Ah Wu's future as Chen Fu. From this, I couldn't help but have doubts - when Ah Wu was someone else's fiancée, he was troubled by his moral sense. Was this moral sense facing Ah Wu, or Ah Wu's "fiancé" whom he had never met? And why didn't he show any concern when his love affected Ah Wu's career?
Finally, what I am most excited about is Ah Wu's career line. If the previous ones are just my personal doubts, I'm sorry, but for this part, I will choose to give an obvious negative review. First of all, Ah Wu's attitude towards her career in Baobao Ni's article can be called an outrageous contradiction – she stayed in the Luo family and still studied hard, and ganked a lot of people during the imperial examination. In addition, Bao Bao said that the main line of the article is that the heroine has a career. I thought that Ah Wu's "career" was to become an official after the imperial examination, or to "study". If not, she wrote a storybook, but the most important thing is that Ah Wu should have a "career". If not, under the neglectful upbringing of the Luo family in those years, she would not have been a woman who was well-informed and courteous, and her writing could attract the attention of Luoyang. However, the Ah Wu in Bao Bao's works has no ambition. This is what disappointed me the most. Being an official conflicts with Xie Yun, so I don't want to be an official. Where is the "career" after the closure? As long as your writing focuses on letting her write more books handed down from generation to generation, or participate in the compilation of historical books, I can believe that being a queen is a career, but? What kind of career is simply being a queen? Conquer men? (Oh, I'm sorry, I finally saw the book mentioned in the forum, but I still think that Ah Wu's later portrayal of her lack of ambition is a big problem)
To sum up, I don't mean to accuse. In the end, I saw that Baobao seems to want to convey some female consciousness in some paragraphs describing Chen Wanqing. I hope Baobao will continue to work hard and write more and better articles [Red Heart]
"Nowhere to go, no place to reach" I would really go crazy, why does the prince do this!
Wuwuwuwu, I still think the regent is very good. Xie Yun's glory and glory should not be buried in the deep palace (crying)
I guess it's intentional (dog-headed funny)
Can I say that I don't understand what a contraceptive method is?
. . . . . . . Makes me speechless
By the way, madam, haven't you written any of the modern or ancient extras you mentioned before?
As I said before, I didn't see it…
After I Used and Abandoned Hagiwara
Tang Dynasty Pipa Girl
Jiuque Pearl
The Love of the Sword Is Deep and the CP Fan Passes Through and Becomes Huo Chengjun
Extra Collection
Fu Su Became the Crown Prince of Song Renzong
Working Hard to Save Huo Qubing Today, Too
Breaking a Cold Branch in the Spring Courtyard
Seizing the Golden Branch (Reborn)
I think the heroine and the third prince are a bit morally kidnapped. It is understandable that the imperial concubine wants to accompany Tan Hwa Lang. Why does she have to keep her for her own sake? I feel like the imperial concubine will be in pain every day when she is alive and looking at the third prince.
I have almost finished reading the whole book. I feel that the plot of the whole book and the characters of the male and female protagonists have a lot worth talking about, so I will write a long review for the author Baobao! First of all, praise the baby's imagination. It's a very good idea for Ah Wu to escape the family she lives with by disguising herself as a man in the imperial examination. Also, calling her book-writing vest Chen Fu her fiancé is also an idea that can emanate many stories, so in the first half of the story In part, I think Ah Wu's career line is very interesting to write. At the same time, Bao Bao deliberately created Xie Yun's character as a gentleman, so that he would have a strong sense of betrayal when he fell in love with Ah Wu, thus causing Xie Yun's emotions and reason to conflict. This is indeed an element that attracts readers to continue reading. But when it comes to the full text, I personally feel that there are still many places worthy of Baobao's exploration into their characters, Ah Wu's career line, and their emotional line. From my point of view, compared to the prince, Ah Wu was the real "great talent" in the early period. As an orphan, Ah Wu lived in a family that did not love her very much for decades. She had neither parents to supervise her nor teachers to teach her. She was able to succeed in the first imperial examination. To get the top prize in the exam is equivalent to giving a five-year-old girl a set of basic textbooks. She has no teacher and relies on self-study after enlightenment. At the age of fifteen or sixteen, she stood out from a group of graduate students and passed the Ph. D. Exam. She is said to be smart and eager to learn. After thinking about the imperial examination method, he decided to implement it very efficiently without any mistakes, which deserves a decisive decision. Therefore, I feel that this kind of Ah Wu, rather than a "talented girl" who is as weak and gentle as a weeping willow on the shore and a little playful, should be a "crazy student" with his own goals and ambitions like her father Tang Qianxian. After falling in love with the prince, when the identity of "Chen Fu" affects the two people's relationship, compared with "distrusting the prince and worrying about being betrayed by the prince". "Abandon", I think there is a more suitable reason for her to choose to maintain Chen Fu's identity - she refused to give up the opportunity to fly out of the cage and use her own voice to change the world for the so-called "love". She remembers what her parents told her when she was a child: to cultivate one's morality, harmonize the family, govern the country and bring peace to the world. At the same time, when Bao Bao was portraying Xie Yun, I felt that the character of the "gentleman" was a little "excessive", or that the emphasis was too much on his deportment and the things he had done and his impact on the people. At the same time, under the upbringing of a father with a rough and heroic personality and a mother with a heroic appearance, I think that if the child's character is to be so calm, certain changes will be required. Next is the emotional line of the male and female protagonists. Based on the above analysis, my personal opinion is that because Bao Bao has set Ah Wu's character as a weak and affectionate girl, she mostly looks up to Xie Yun, so that this love is a bit too humble. Xie Yun's love for Ah Wu originated from a sudden glance, but he did not sublimate it after learning about Ah Wu's talents. Baobao gave me the feeling that Chen Fu in the copy and Ah Wu in the article were cut into two people, and Chen Fu's "free and unrestrained" character setting in the copy was not integrated back into Ah Wu. Therefore, the one who fell in love with Xie Yun became a beautiful and gentle beauty, and would worry about whether Xie Yun would marry her. What makes me more disappointed is that Xie Yun, from discovering that Ah Wu wrote the storybook to discovering that Chen Fu is Ahwu, his focus from the beginning to the end is on his own feelings, from the jealousy of his beloved girl scheming for others to the anger of being deceived. Maybe it was Ahwu when the storybook was released. The look on his face was hurried, perhaps because Chen Fu, who was kneeling in the Jinluan Hall, was too ordinary for the normally rebellious new emperor. He did not have the slightest emotion to be amazed by the talent of his beloved woman, nor did he think about whether his courtship would delay Ah Wu's future as Chen Fu. From this, I couldn't help but have doubts - when Ah Wu was someone else's fiancée, he was troubled by his moral sense. Was this moral sense facing Ah Wu, or Ah Wu's "fiancé" whom he had never met? And why didn't he show any concern when his love affected Ah Wu's career? Finally, what I am most excited about is Ah Wu's career line. If the previous ones are just my personal doubts, I'm sorry, but for this part, I will choose to give an obvious negative review. First of all, Ah Wu's attitude towards her career in Baobao Ni's article can be called an outrageous contradiction – she stayed in the Luo family and still studied hard, and ganked a lot of people during the imperial examination. In addition, Bao Bao said that the main line of the article is that the heroine has a career. I thought that Ah Wu's "career" was to become an official after the imperial examination, or to "study". If not, she wrote a storybook, but the most important thing is that Ah Wu should have a "career". If not, under the neglectful upbringing of the Luo family in those years, she would not have been a woman who was well-informed and courteous, and her writing could attract the attention of Luoyang. However, the Ah Wu in Bao Bao's works has no ambition. This is what disappointed me the most. Being an official conflicts with Xie Yun, so I don't want to be an official. Where is the "career" after the closure? As long as your writing focuses on letting her write more books handed down from generation to generation, or participate in the compilation of historical books, I can believe that being a queen is a career, but? What kind of career is simply being a queen? Conquer men? (Oh, I'm sorry, I finally saw the book mentioned in the forum, but I still think that Ah Wu's later portrayal of her lack of ambition is a big problem) To sum up, I don't mean to accuse. In the end, I saw that Baobao seems to want to convey some female consciousness in some paragraphs describing Chen Wanqing. I hope Baobao will continue to work hard and write more and better articles [Red Heart]
"Nowhere to go, no place to reach" I would really go crazy, why does the prince do this!
Wuwuwuwu, I still think the regent is very good. Xie Yun's glory and glory should not be buried in the deep palace (crying)
I guess it's intentional (dog-headed funny)
Can I say that I don't understand what a contraceptive method is?
. . . . . . . Makes me speechless
By the way, madam, haven't you written any of the modern or ancient extras you mentioned before? As I said before, I didn't see it…
Ahhhhhhh, it suddenly stopped here. Update soon.
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