The talented people in Bianjing hated Xu Yikai!
At the Lantern Festival Poetry Party, her brilliant writing attracted the attention of the Imperial Academy;
In the Taixue classroom, her verbal battle with the Confucian scholars shocked the whole hall into silence.
But on the day the results were released, her name was actually replaced...
In the darkness, the eldest brother is peeling off the cocoon, uncovering a corner of the shady officialdom.
The undercurrent of power surges, the confrontation between talent and conspiracy, the collision between ideal and reality,
How should she regain everything that belongs to her in this turbulent situation?