On the day the exam results were posted, news that Xie Jing had placed third in the imperial examination spread through every street and alley.
The neighbors all thought I had finally made it and was about to become the wife of a third-place scholar. Instead, I received a letter of divorce from Xie Jing.
I neither cried nor made a scene. I led my troops back to the capital.
If my identity as the top courtesan of Chunhua House was not good enough, then what about being the current emperor's eldest princess?