Under the ginkgo tree outside Suzhou Prefecture School, Lin Zhao clutched the county examination paper that had been torn into pieces, his knuckles turning white.
"A good-for-nothing is worthy of fighting with me?" Zhang Huairen stood on the steps waving his folding fan, followed by Mr. Fu Xue - he had just wanted to exclude Lin Zhao from the list of children on the grounds of "involvement and fraud."
The autumn wind blew by, and pieces of paper fell into his patched green shirt.
Lin Zhao looked at the sneers of the surrounding students and suddenly heard a "ding" in his head.
[Imperial Examination Advanced System Binding Successfully]
[Current level: Tongsheng (third from the bottom in the county examination)]
[Host crisis detected: Will be removed from the list after 24 hours, triggering the novice task - recite the full text of "The Analects of Confucius: For Politics", reward: photographic memory (permanent)]
He stared at the translucent panel that suddenly appeared in front of him, his Adam's apple twitching.
When the results of the government examination were released three days later, Zhang Huairen was proudly counting his "ghostwriting fees" when he heard the applicant yelling: "First place! Lin Zhao!"
"How is that possible? He can't even memorize the entire "University"!" Zhang Huairen turned over the tea cup, only to see Lin Zhao standing under the list, his fingertips gently tracing the four golden characters of "The Head of the Government Examination Case" - the system's newly unlocked "Fountain of Literary Thoughts", filling his mind with beautiful articles along the tip of the pen.
This time, the pen of a scholar from a poor family is going to pierce the power of the powerful.
