He traveled to ancient times and became a poor scholar, facing the financial difficulties left by his original family. After failing the imperial examination five times, he was too financially strapped to pay the single tax. On the day she failed, a woman took the initiative to propose an engagement, claiming that her grandfather determined the marriage after calculating her birth date, and no betrothal gift was required. When he was planning to make a living by selling poems, he suddenly got the news that he had passed the imperial examination.