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Currently, their synthetic routes mainly rely on two approaches: polymerization coupled with assembly of building blocks, or solid-state crosslinking within preassembled crystals. Herein, we developed a 2D polymerization strategy based on exfoliated 2D molecular crystals (2DMCs), in which crosslinking within individual 2DMCs covalently locks the arrangement of preassembled 2D architecture while maintaining the exfoliated 2D morphology. The monomer is designed with a structure of \u03c0-extended rigid cores and multiarm siloxane reactive sites, yielding crystals with lamellar structure. These crystals can be exfoliated into free-standing, well-dispersed 2DMCs with a thickness of 2.2\u20138.8 nm, and subsequent solid-state crosslinking maintains the 2DMCs into stable 2D architectures, affording organic\u2013inorganic hybrid 2DPs. 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