The Arrogant Young Master Is Smitten with the Cool, Brilliant Girl

In 1912, the Renzi-Gui Chou education system was established, allowing boys and girls to attend school together for the first time in China’s millennia-long history.

Lin Zhixia, a modern-day top student with a teaching certificate, died from overwork while doing practice questions. When she opened her eyes, she had become a good-for-nothing concubine-born daughter in the Republic of China, jilted by her fiancé and mocked by the entire village.

The old rules said that a woman’s lack of talent was a virtue, that women could not attend school, and that women were inferior to men.

But this year, the new law had arrived: men and women were equal!

The whole village waited to see her humiliated. Her former fiancé expected her to kneel and beg to reconcile. Conservative old scholars were ready to drive her out of the school.

Instead, reborn Lin Zhixia returned armed with modern knowledge, a silver tongue, and an unstoppable knack for turning the tables!

On the first day of school, the most eligible men in the Republic of China crowded the school gates:

A gentle warlord, a cool professor, a rebellious young master, a refined top scholar...

Everyone assumed she was there to cozy up to the powerful and land herself a rich husband.

Lin Zhixia shoved her hands in her pockets and grinned boldly:

“Out of my way. I’m here to study, come in first, and tear down your feudal rules.”

She systematically trounced every outdated feudal idea, gave education reform a whole new spin, and kicked the thousand-year-old shackles of feminine virtue to pieces.

Every male lead fell for her, but all she cared about was doing practice problems, getting into a higher school, building her career, and revitalizing education.

A feel-good power fantasy with a strong female lead, no romance obsession, and a light, funny tone. All the male supporting characters are just background figures, while the heroine rises to the top!