Edited by Kiskaiya
Updated on 8 Aug 2019
Chapter 10: Little Xie Marquis
Guang Wen Tang’s academy examinations were held every year during the tenth month.
The academy examinations were a test for every student in the academy, especially for the outstanding students who would be showcasing their talents. Most importantly, that day there would be many high ranking officials watching and princes looking from the side. If there were any good students, perhaps career opportunities would be available.
In short, one would show off one’s talent for others to see in order to be famous. This was why in every academy examination, everyone would use all their energy and effort to achieve titles.
In grade two, Shen Yue’s talent was the most extensive and she would always stand above the crowd during the academy examinations. Although Shen Qing was not as good as Shen Yue in terms of poetry, her calculation skills were among the best and she would usually get a few top rankings.
If one were to talk about those lacking accomplishment, the one at the bottom would be Shen Miao. She did not know any of the four scholarly arts and her arithmetic was the worst. In every academy examination, she would always embarrass herself. Not to mention showcasing her talents, it would be very hard to even pass the tests. The Shen Miao in the past lifetime was most afraid of the yearly academy examinations as she could see Shen Yue and Shen Qing being proud of their success while she could only be very envious in her heart.
Now when she looked, she only felt that it was merely jealousy amongst kids. What kind of battle had she not seen before, the academy examinations were really nothing in her eyes.
She peered at Feng An Ning and said, “What about academy examinations? I never thought of fighting for whatever top or bottom ranking. What is there to contend for?”
Feng An Ning was slightly surprised as she did not think that Shen Miao would be so magnanimous to say the truth of the matter. She looked carefully at Shen Miao and asked, “You must have hurt a lot, else there would not be such a great change in temperament, right?”
Shen Miao seemed to have a personality change overnight from a dull person to a magnanimous and confident person. It was not a manner one should have at this age. Because they were sitting at the same table, this change in temperament was even more obvious.
“Yes.” Shen Miao smiled and no longer said anything more.
Perhaps because of the age of the young females, their instinct was to either respect or envy others who were more mature than themselves. Shen Miao’s gestures turned Feng An Ning’s attitude towards her imperceptibly better.
After the accounting lessons were completed, the students headed to the garden outside Guang Wen Tang to play. The females were all in the academy playing chess or discussing new poetry until they heard the sound of a horse passing.
“What is that?” Yi Pei Lan turn her head over.
“Let’s go outside and take a look at what it is,” Jiang Cai Xuan proposed as she pulled Shen Yue up.
Shen Miao had no intention of joining in the fun. It was Feng An Ning who turned back after taking two steps and grabbed Shen Miao’s hands after thinking for a bit, “Lets’ go and see!”
Shen Miao was somewhat surprised as Feng An Ning usually didn’t like her so she wouldn’t display such an intimate move. She was puzzled but she was already being dragged out of the academy by Feng An Ning.
There were many students standing outside by the door chatting. When they saw Feng An Ning pulling Shen Miao over, they all wore a surprised look. Shen Yue’s eyes flashed imperceptibly but she did not make a sound. It was Shen Qing who saw it and scoffed. Ever since she realised that Shen Miao was also in love with Prince Ding, she no longer bothered to hide her disdain or put up any pretence.
But what was surprising was not this. Cai Lin just squeezed out from the crowd and called out, “Little Xie Marquis!”
Little Xie Marquis? Shen Miao glanced over.
Outside Guang Wen Tang’s red cinnabar door there stood a red steed. The horse’s coat was bright and smooth and with one look, anyone could tell it was a good steed worth thousands of gold. The horse haughtily kicked forward as it’s elegant body attracted everyone’s attention.
But in the end, it was not as dazzling as the person on horseback.
The youth sat on the horse’s back, wearing a black embroidered robe with a dark purple mink coat worn on top. His right hand lazily played with the horse whip. Hiis facial features were sharp and handsome, the corner of his lips was slightly hooked up, as if smiling yet not, and the gaze is his eyes was very cold.
There was a young female in the crowd who immediately blushed and, disregarding where she was, courageously threw a silk handkerchief folded into the shape of a blossom at the youth. Ming Qi was a liberal country, so it was tolerant to the rules between young males and females.
The silk blossom fell into the arms of the youth and he twisted it in his hand as the corner of his lips hooked up into a smile. The young female who threw the handkerchief immediately flushed, already becoming silly in love.
In the next moment the stubborn and obstreperous youth’s smile fleeted away. The silk blossom fell onto the ground and landed under the hooves of the red horse, crushing it into an unrecognisable mess.
He lazily straightened up, as if there was a naturally born strong evasiveness, but because of his handsome face, it only magnified his attractiveness. He had the innate ability to let one not move their eyes from his presence.
What a cold and nasty person.
Yi Pei Lan murmured, “It’s the little marquis of the Xie family.”
Shen Miao raised her eyebrows. Little marquis of the Xie family, Xie Jing Xing.
Most of the old aristocratic vassal families in Ming Qi accompanied the late Emperor in the founding of the country and achieved meritorious services. After several generations, the aristocratic titles were just empty names. However, some families became more prosperous and lived splendidly.
Like the Feng family who were literary officials, there were also those like the Shen family’s generals. If one were to say that the Shen family had a military lineage, it would be because they all led troops to fight in wars and were recognised as honest people. Then there was the Xie family who had military power in their hands but always drifted along. Even His Majesty was powerless towards the Xie family.
Most likely there was a rebellious streak in the Xie family’s bones. All of their deeds were absolutely disgraceful, such as ignoring the capital command to retreat thousands of miles away and instead continuing to pursue the retreating enemy. At the end, they still glorified it as ‘a general should judge and act according to the real situations on the battlefield and thus does not need to obey all orders’. But the Imperial family was helpless towards the Xie family, as they were invincible in battle.
The Shen family and the Xie family had an opposing relationship. This,of course, was deliberately provoked by the previous Emperor so that there would be checks and balances to stabilize the court. Shen Xin’s and the Xie Marquis’s views were never aligned as Shen Xin disapproved of Xie Ding’s strange tactics and unorthodox methods. Xie Ding could not understand why Shen Xin still depended on military books during battles and was so conservative that he was inflexible. Both families did not have any interactions besides quarrelling in court, thus the late Emperor was happy to see such an arrangement.
After Xie Ding’s wife passed away, he did not marry another wife and the only concubine in the household had two sons. This meant that Xie Jing Xing had two Shu brothers from the same father. Perhaps Xie Ding was distressed that the Di son’s mother died young and wanted to make it up to him, so he doted Xie Jing Xing since young, making Xie Jing Xing develop an undisciplined and out of control temperament.
Even so, Xie Jing Xing was a brilliant person. Other than his indifferent nature, he excelled in his studies and had noble features which were well-known in Ming Qi, else many females would not secretly admire him.
It was such a pity, Shen Miao’s heart sighed. This kind of outstanding young man, in the end, had arrows shot into his heart and his body hung out after his skin was peeled off, such a tragic ending.
Perhaps her pitiful gaze was too obvious causing the young man to suddenly look over and his eyes, which were as deep as the stars, flashed as though as he did not understand her gaze.
Thank you so much!! 😘😘😘
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hmmm~ is he the Male lead? :3
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Yeap… 😛
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Don’t spoil please. I want to keep the mistery of who is gonna be the main lead and you took that away from me
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Um, Juan, you didn’t have to read and the translations were already far past this point by the time you replied. Do you think that the ending of Star Wars should have been kept silent even for those who were only able to watch it some thirty odd years later? If not, what’s the difference, given that this is not a western novel as widely popularized as Star Wars?
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Juan, it literally says it in the blurb. Unless you literally only saw the title of this series and went straight into it, there’s no way its a spoiler.
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Yaaay…the male lead shows up 🙂
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YAY!!! Three cheers!!!
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Soo is it possible for this xie to be miao ml?
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YEAH!!! The author love this character so much she refer him to her son… ;p
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thank you for the chapter <33
ohh the male lead ???
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I’m pretty sure he’s the male lead. lol. He was noted in the Introduction as the male lead who was very possessive of her. Can’t wait for that to happen. LOL.
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You are right!!! But the romance part is very very slowly done since she is concentrating with settling her family first…
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Thank you! The ship is now starting!
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Thanks for the hard work!!! ❤️❤️❤️
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yayyyy finally the male lead is hereeeeeeeeeeee!!!! i can’t wait for them to fall in loveloveee~~ i wonder how quickly he’ll fall for our cutie MC 🙂
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Hahaha… U can read how his actions change towards her from the beginning… 😛
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Uh oh! catching our Male MC’s gaze means she will now be forever hindered by him and we will get to enjoy many scenes in the future with their banter hopefully.
Thank you for the chapter! I’m actually quite curious about how well our FMC will perform in the exams now.
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Unfortunately, the beginning of the novel is not focus on the romance yet… So we got to hold our horses!!!! Thanks for supporting!
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Ooh so excited! Thank you soo much! I’m sure she’s going to blow their minds in the exam or kill them from the shock! Murderr! Bwahaha Shock ’em ol
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Hehe… Thats is for you to wait and read!!! Thanks for supporting!!!
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in level two shen miao’s talent.. -> shen yue?
at first i thought the author being sarcastic and mocking shen miao, but then the author mention shen miao again.
it’s nice to see that the male lead isn’t mature yet ^^
and doom to die if MC didn’t save him XD
as always thank you for the amazing chapter :3
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Also, “weird and orthodox”->”weird and unorthodox”? bc they don’t conform and out of ordinary?
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Thanks for catching that too! Its amended 🙂
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Thanks for catching that! I just amended it. Thanks for supporting!!!
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Oh, is it a capture target? Handsome and smart… Nice…. Thanks for the chapter desu~
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Thanks for supporting!!! More like interest at this point only
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YAY !!! the male lead shows up !!!!
i’m so happy hehe ! he sounds quite arrogant as of now, so he probably doesn’t understand why shen miao is looking at him with pity instead of admiration lol. he’ll soon become interested anyway ^.^
also, i’m curious to how shen miao will do in the examinations. she probably won’t want to stand out too much, but i hope she does well anyway !!
thank you very much for this chapter, can’t wait to read more interactions between them !!
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He is a complicated character… But weirdly, he is one of my fav ML in the ancient novels… As for the exams, I can’t say anything to spoil it but one thing is for sure… ITS QUITE EPIC!!! Thanks for supporting!
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I think the most “complicated” characters are also the most fascinating, so it’s not surprising that you were drawn to him if he is indeed as complex and intelligent as I imagine.
And ooh, do tell who are your other favorite MLs in ancient novels. If you ever have the time, I’d love it if you could write some top-whatever lists (your favorite novels in different genres, favorite hero/heroine, favorite romance, stuff like that.) I’m always curious about the favorite reads of people who can read Chinese and have read a lot, so they know best which are the most worthwhile novels. 🙂
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As the story goes, I then feel drawn to him. Its like he creep up behind me and when I realized it, I am like rooting for him… Let me read more books before I come up with any top ten lists. Cnovels are all super duper long… 😛
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So he is the male lead?
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Thanks for the chapter! Ahh!! Finally! We meet the male lead. Yay!
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Thanks for supporting! Its a long wait for him to appear…
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Thanks for the chapter u.u
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Thank you for the chapter~
Yey! Finally!
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Too short. Haha. It cuts just when it gets good. Thank you for the update! Yay, our lead!
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Blame the author!!! Hahaha… That is also one of the reason why I was so hook onto this novel… Thanks for supporting!
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Thank you for the chapter!
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I just came across this story today. I absolutely love it! Thank you for your translations! I’m looking forward to reading more 🙂
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Wow what a sad ending he had hopefully she can use it to her strength.
Thanks for the translation so happy 😘😘😘😘
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Her strength is turning all the tables around…. 😛 Thanks for supporting!
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Thanks for the chapter~! XD
Can’t wait , can’t wait XD
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Thanks for supporting! The wait for the new chap is almost over…
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Thank you for translating 😊
Adding this to my reading list!
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Thanks for translating! I am loving this story 🤗
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Oh.. I wonder what happened that caused him too meet such a tragic end~ Is Feng Ang Ning an ally?
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AAAAHHHH!!!! I really want to say it but it would be a very very big spoiler!!!! Lets put it as good people have good endings and corrupted people will meet their doom…
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I just read it but I loved it so far, thanks for the update!
I guess she’ll re-wrote their history~
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Thanks for supporting! She will definitely do that
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This male lead looks like a lot of troubles LOL
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ML!!! So they’re both from military families – they can easily usurp the throne.
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All these kids suffer so much in the future. It’s really sad.
I like the fact that ML is not a prince but a rival of her family. If these 2 families work together then they stand a chance in overthrowing the imperial family.
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How annoying, bunch of children fighting over nothing
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Sounds like the male lead, not that the emperor would ever allow them to marry. If they even tried, he’d probably take it as a sign of rebellion from both of their houses.
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Is none gonna talk about how great feng an ning might be! After all a wanted a friend character for the mc and we have one
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10 years in the future
Kid: Esteemed mother what is your first impression of father?
Shen Miao: He’s a deadman.
XjX: *Shivers*
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There goes our OTP’s first meeting of gazes. 😁
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Ohhhh…. i cannot wait for their romance😍😍😍😍
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I’ll just brace myself for the exposition of ML’s handsomeness but no matter I still love the little Xie marquis. 😂
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ayyy.. glad that ml is not from the palace (means one of the princes)
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Oh Gosh, does anyone have a happy ending in the previous life? No? Anybody? Such terrible deaths left and right
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“because of his handsome face, it only magnified his attractiveness”
Ah yes, the beginning of the author being super extra™ describing how good looking xie jing xing is🥴
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ok so will feng an nin become her friend?? ALSO OMFG THE ML YASSSS btw why’s no one past’s lives ever go smoothly omg…
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