The Phoenix Tally Won't Accept Fate

Xie Yunya, the disowned daughter of the Shixun House, is forced to use her late mother’s “loom algorithm” to take the blame for her brother.

When she tears up her marriage contract and enters the imperial examinations dressed as a man

In the classics exam, she uses an abacus to expose the nobles’ exam-leak network. In the audience before the emperor, she turns grain transport into a game of strategy and starves three hundred thousand rebel troops. But on the final night, she hurls the imperial phoenix seal at the dragon throne: “Why should women in office need the emperor’s gracious permission?”

The head of the Shixun Pavilion’s women’s house draws her blade to protect Xie Yunya. “Today, we tear down this world that devours people, together!”