
The Daily Life of an Ancient Imperial Scholar
古代科举日常
- Status
- Completed
- Length
- 2.0M Words
- Genre
- Ancient Romance
- Subgenre
- Business & Farming
- Updated
- 7y ago
- English
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I can't help but leave a comment: This is truly a very, very good book. The female lead is a top student with a photographic memory and almost superhuman intelligence; even though she disguises herself as a man, there are no clichéd plots like those in other novels. Although her grandparents treated her badly, the female protagonist wasn't really abused after she transmigrated.
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I vote for the male lead every day, and suddenly I feel that the emperor could also be a candidate. What do you all think? I think if the female lead marries the male lead, her life will be ruined. She'll only be able to fight wits with the male lead's mother in the backyard. Even if the male lead's grandfather supports the female lead, he's old after all. How many more years can he live?
Do you all support Du Jinning telling Qi Muyuan the truth?
A few thoughts
I stumbled upon this novel by chance. At first, I felt the extensive setup and numerous chapters, especially the part about the family split, made it seem somewhat bland. However, the more I read, the more I realized it's a truly exceptional story. The female protagonist possesses both the magnanimity of a woman and the breadth of vision and understanding expected of a man.
The female lead starts writing stories right from the start, which feels like forcibly demoting the natives' intelligence. Even if she's a genius, someone who's never been to school, and then writes book after book based on only a little bit of knowledge or experience—any normal person would question that.
It seems that a woman disguising herself as a man to take the imperial examination is a major disadvantage. The imperial examinations required stripping naked for inspection, and they even checked her anus to see if she had any cheat sheets.
It's impossible for a doctor to discover a woman's disguise as a man by taking her pulse; at most, it would lead to a misdiagnosis, concluding that the protagonist is simply congenitally weak and deficient in qi. While male and female pulses differ, they are not fixed. Everyone's constitution is different, and therefore their pulse will vary.
To be honest, the later parts of the book were indeed very good and enjoyable to read. However, the female protagonist's sense of superiority sometimes felt very uncomfortable. I'm almost finished reading it, but I'm planning to drop it because I'm a Mongolian from Inner Mongolia.
The writing is excellent and quite meticulous. It avoids the unrealistic plots found in other farming novels, like harvesting a thousand catties of mushrooms or cultivating 500 acres of land daily. However, the female lead feels a bit off. Although explanations are given later, it still feels strange. Her research all belongs to others, which she not only appropriates but also criticizes.