Five years ago, he was so happy, marrying and having children just like any ordinary person. Little did he know that it had all been deliberately arranged, or that those had been some of the happiest days of his life. Today, five years later, his wife is gone. All that remains are the four children he must raise alone. But what of it? He devotes himself to caring for them and hopes to change his fate through the imperial examinations. Yet everything points to the powerful bureaucratic families. No one cares whether he passes.
