After Saving the Empress, I Became the Top Scholar
Historical · Xianxia · Female Protagonist Ning Nan transmigrated into a ruined Li Family Village in the novel and stayed there for a full eighteen years. After saving the amnesiac heroine one step ahead of the male lead, he discovers that the male lead has also brought someone back! He forces the male lead to become sworn brothers with this woman, then happily returns home and checks the fingers of the woman he rescued, only to see calluses on her hand and confirm that she really is just the heroine’s maid! Sighing, he hurries to win over the true heroine in order to obtain household registration and take the imperial examinations. But under his mother’s matchmaking, he still ends up marrying this maid. However... the situation gradually starts to feel wrong. When he writes, his mother only praises him for writing very darkly, but his wife praises his handwriting in the Wei stele style and says even the current Grand Secretary falls short. When he uses penicillin to treat injuries, others say Ning-wa is fierce but skilled at recognizing herbs, while his wife’s eyes light up as she says that even the imperial physicians should come study under him. When he leads people to improve the village’s broken river, his wife asks what should be done if the river were a hundred times bigger. When he studies gunpowder ratios on the back mountain, his wife secretly follows him and asks if he can teach her the formula. When he climbs a mountain fortress to rescue his brothers, he steels himself and orders his wife to remarry, only for her to come over with her friends... but why is his wife so strong? Why does her group of friends keep growing? And one of them... why does she seem to be the Jinyiwei Commander? Later, after earning merit for destroying the bandits, he receives his household registration and becomes a true Liang citizen! ...He can take the imperial examinations now! He rises all the way from xiucai to juren, jinshi, and finally becomes the top scholar. When he goes to the court in full splendor, with his official cap and flowers, to pay respects to the empress— a very familiar voice drifts down from the court. "Oh? This top scholar’s looks... are rather handsome."
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