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[Important: The plot has been extensively revised and polished. Pirated versions are incomplete. The original is only available on Jinjiang.]
When Changheng Academy opened, two students stood out amid the gathering of talented people.
One was Lin Yue, a refined young gentleman known for his integrity. He excelled at all the gentlemanly arts and could handle essays on the classics and statecraft with ease.
The other was Liang Ying, a commoner with a cold, world-weary nature, who spent every day either skipping class or slacking off.
When they first met, Lin Yue wore a blue robe and a bamboo hairpin, listening to the rain beneath an umbrella.
Liang Ying perched on the wall, his rough clothes stained with mud. A ragged cloth bundle in his hand held everything he owned.
From that moment on, Liang Ying knew where he stood in comparison to Lin Yue.
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For generations, every child in the Lin clan, whether boy or girl, had been expected to pave the way for the imperial family, openly or behind the scenes.
When turmoil shook the court, the Lin clan, staunch supporters of the imperial family, secretly sent the young crown prince out of the palace to hide.
They never expected that he would remain away for seventeen years.
When they finally found the crown prince, they discovered that the young man, who had grown up struggling in the mud, was gloomy and solitary, with no virtue befitting a ruler and no hope of shouldering the responsibility.
Lin Qingyue was chosen by the Lin clan to be his whetstone.
With no other choice, she disguised herself as a man and entered the academy under the alias Lin Yue, teaching him bit by bit and secretly helping him.
Gradually, the gloomy crown prince began to gaze for long stretches at Lin Qingyue in her blue robe.
An irrepressible glimmer would occasionally cross his shadowed eyes.
Seeing this, Lin Qingyue remembered how she'd accidentally ended up wearing women's clothes at a singing house a few days earlier. She tapped the crown prince on the forehead with a book.
"Brother Liang, focus on your studies. Do you want a bright future, or a hairpin and skirt?"
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The moon shone at the window. Awake or asleep, she filled his thoughts, but he could not have her.
Before Liang Ying knew he was the crown prince, he regarded Lin Yue like a bright moon in the highest heavens.
She was always surrounded by people, standing amid a sea of voices.
When he accidentally discovered she was a woman, his heart burned.
He covered for her at every turn, and couldn't help feeling pleased with himself about it. This secret, known to him alone, was like a moon-viewing terrace rising from the ground, lifting his heart so high that it seemed he could reach out and touch her.
Later, Liang Ying learned that he was the crown prince, but he still proceeded with caution, afraid that the murky power surrounding him would soil the hem of her green bamboo-patterned skirt.
But it turned out she knew everything.
"Your Highness has completed his studies. I have no further use."
She knelt before him, crushed into the dirt by the turbulent currents around him, begging him to show mercy.
Liang Ying, or Crown Prince Shen Ying, lowered his deep-set eyes.
"I don't care."
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A dull-witted heroine forced to work, with only her assistant-to-the-crown-prince performance goals in mind
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A gloomy crown prince with a world-weary face, crawling through the shadows while secretly nursing a crush
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Blurb:
The new dynasty has issued a marriage decree: women who reach seventeen and men who reach twenty and remain unmarried will be randomly matched by the local authorities.
In the capital, where matchmaking is all the rage, Ji Heng, the young master of the Duke's household, is as bright and refined as the moon, gentle as jade, and every unmarried woman's perfect husband.
Oddly enough, he is about to turn twenty, yet hasn't even chosen a fiancée. People gossip endlessly about why.
The truth is, Ji Heng is waiting.
Waiting for a childhood friend who has yet to catch on.
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Qin Mingyu and Ji Heng aren't your typical childhood sweethearts.
Though they tell each other everything, she has a secret even Ji Heng doesn't know:
Her soul is divided into two halves, one good and one evil.
The good half is innocent and naive, while the evil half is lawless and unrestrained.
With only three months left before the marriage decree's deadline, the good half finally falls in love, but gives her heart to the wrong person. The evil half can't stand by and watch, so she forcibly takes over the body and shuts the good half up.
She starts by stealing confidential information from the ghost market to compile a list of suitors, then asks her childhood friend Ji Heng to help vet them.
She thinks her plan is foolproof, but one after another, her potential matches turn out to have disastrous secrets.
First, there's a young general. The very next day, evidence of his bloody vendetta, for which he'd risk his life, suddenly appears on her desk.
Then there's the seventh prince, who seems as aloof and pure as a chrysanthemum. Somehow, the seal of authority over the ghost market and a letter detailing a rebellion turn up at her feet.
Qin Mingyu: How can this possibly be right?
Once Qin Mingyu figures out what the problem is, she marches through the gates of the Duke's household.
But when she confronts him, the man who's always been as gentle and refined as jade instead advances on her step by step.
His gaze darkens, his words full of resentment.
"Why can they have you, but I can't?"
"Of course they can't! I used to be your sister-in-law!"
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Ji Lang, the eldest son of the Duke's household, was once a brilliant talent, famous throughout the capital.
But after his untimely death, all expectations and criticism fell on his younger brother, Ji Heng.
He had no choice but to imitate his elder brother's bright, refined demeanor and gentlemanly grace, restoring the Duke's household to glory.
The pain of erasing his own self and pretending to be someone else was bearable as long as Zhaozhao was by his side.
Childhood friends was fine, as long as he was the most important person in her heart.
But Zhaozhao, why do you have to go meet suitors?
If you can let go of my brother, why can't you choose me?
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On a rainy night, after Qin Mingyu gets engaged,
Ji Heng barges into her room wearing his elder brother's clothes.
The humble gentleman turns into a seductive ghost and pins her beneath him.
"Zhaozhao, every one of them wants something from you: evidence for revenge, power over the Chancellor's household, or a sincere heart willing to forgive your mistakes."
"I'm not like them. All I want is to be your official husband."
Even if it means being no more than his brother's replacement.
Even if you never love me with the same disregard for right and wrong with which I love you.
Reading Guide:
1. One-on-one, happy ending. The male lead is a substitute, secretly in love, and gloomily crawling through the shadows.
2. The leads aren't traditionally righteous.
Theme: Study hard and live life to the fullest.
I really like this article. The writing style of Top [Panda Head] in the second half of the year is really good. The pace of the article is also very comfortable. It took me a day to read it. The foreshadowing and reversal are very exciting. The ending of the heroine becoming emperor is very satisfying!!! The author has really created the image of a big heroine very well. Lin Qingyue is perfect (Lin Yue is my favorite gentle heroine when I see a woman disguised as a man [covering her face and peeking], and the real female goose makes this image fuller and more fleshed out). But she also has a fragile side. This does not mean that she is not her "big heroine". The author has balanced these two points very well. Despite the limitations of the times, she has always been able to assume the responsibility of a leader. She and Xiaoying complement each other and become truly free souls. When I was reading the article, I kept thinking about whether Zhu Yu and Zhai were a couple. Although I didn't write about it, I felt very happy. There was no difference between things and people, and the love was not limited to children. They could stand side by side in the court in the universe that I couldn't see. Their lives were long and good, and they will last forever in the author's great pen. What surprised me the most was that the author had a strong sense of women. The female identities of Zhu Yu and Zhou Nian made me surprised that the heroine's "female disguise as a man" element was not special. Because I often read heartthrob novels, I felt a little regretful at first. But as the article progressed, I became more and more grateful that they were women, not girls. How could Zhu Yu sacrifice his life to save them? If she wasn't a woman, how could Zhou Nian have betrayed her? Gentleness, righteousness, meticulousness, awe-inspiringness, as well as Lin Xi's ambition for power and persistence in escaping fate, are all their most beautiful qualities. Lin Ying, who plays with guns and sticks, was mentioned in just a few words, Liuli who is good at medicine, grandma who has been protecting for a long time... Thank you to the author for creating such a diverse and beautiful group of women!
I was obsessed with Butterfly Lovers a few years ago. The author used this to write a different and wonderful story. I have recently become obsessed with women dressing up as men. A few days ago, I watched a male bishop and the female protagonist raised her as a daughter. She also became an emperor step by step and grew up to be independent and full-fledged. The author wrote the opposite. The female protagonist is omnipotent and perfect and teaches the male protagonist to grow up step by step. Many plots are super graphic. I like it very much. I love the female protagonist so much?°(°?????°)°?
Is this gone? I must write a side story, there are too few male and female protagonists 😭
I really didn't expect this ending. Maybe they will retire and travel around the world together in the future?
Hahahaha, the hostess is awesome, yes, the only way to get rid of this fate is to break and then build. Since Shen can't give them real freedom and break these dusty rules of human relationships, then replace them It's just that the male and female protagonists have a blood feud, it's so fucking bloody hahahaha
It's almost the end and there's still another torture. You, you, you are so cruel.
Is this finished or not yet...
Tied! Let me briefly talk about my feelings. I really love the female-dressing-as-a-man plot, and I try to find a very good-looking college novel. Can I say that the academic part of this article is really very beautiful? I like the white moonlight heroine like the star in front of me. You can feel the personal charm of the heroine in the details laid out by the author. Yes, I feel that the author has some considerations in the portrayal of the male and female protagonists. The female protagonist is a beautiful and powerful woman with full skills. As for the male protagonist, I can only think of his biggest characteristic is that he has a beautiful appearance. He is a little bit obsessed with everything. He is a little paranoid, a little love-minded, a little taciturn, a little inferior, but has a beautiful appearance. I feel The male protagonist is obviously a character who serves the plot, so after leaving the school, all the plots start to rush forward, as if they have entered double speed, and they are always preparing for the countdown to the ending. After the tender and meticulous description in the previous part fades away, the male protagonist cannot be established anymore, and he begins to become dull. It was tasteless and blurred, and the same goes for the female protagonist. However, due to the author's preference, the female protagonist stuck to her mission and did not become a brick to pave the male protagonist's career. This subverted the inherent ending of the female channel in the past where women disguised themselves as men. People in the world have suffered from "retiring behind the scenes to become a good wife or a female protagonist living in seclusion in the mountains and forests" for a long time! Regarding the setting of the final ending, I still want to say a great job! It's just that everything was too rushed and felt a bit anticlimactic. The parts that the two of them should write in the later stages were complicated and cumbersome (for example, the two of them confessed their feelings, and sometimes the male protagonist was timid in his hometown and the other female protagonist felt that she was not worthy). The places that wanted to be written in detail were briefly mentioned. If the quality of the latter parts is at the same level as the previous ones, they will definitely be able to break through the siege in ancient novels. The first part is really brilliant! The writing style is clear and delicate, full of aura, and the atmosphere is well created. I believe that the author must have the ability to write better and better! Although the love line is remarkable, the friendship line (A Yue and A Yu) is written very vividly and vividly. There is sympathy and sympathy that naturally comes out of them. They are so similar to each other. They are both so smart and tenacious. They are pearls in the dust. Just wipe them a little. , Can burst out with dazzling brilliance, so we can understand A Yue's care for A Yu, and also understand A Yu's trust in A Yue. Of course, we are also eager to further dig into their stories and bonds, instead of being like the NPCs who have been redeemed and become [already conquered] I feel like I've said a lot and it's a bit incomprehensible, but thousands of words still fit into one sentence. Great work for the author! I hope you can write more and better works!
I don't know what to say, I know the author wants to write about a big heroine, but for me, who just wants to read CP, this ending seems to have stabbed me suddenly. I hope the author will avoid the lightning in the introduction in the future. I am a fan of articles and can't avoid lightning. The idea of wanting to chew on candy kept me reading. When I saw that the ending didn't have much candy, I was a little sad and almost breathed out.
Can there be a side story where the heroine's mother is not dead? 😭 I feel like my parents reversed things too quickly.