As a woman, with a beautiful name, she shouldered the fate of a family and stepped into a ladder of no return.
His father died young and his brother died young, leaving only mother and daughter alone.
In order to keep the door of her family from falling, Xiao Zhiqing burned her hairpin and took over the name of her deceased brother.
From then on, there was no Xiao Zhiqing in the world, only a young man named Xiao Zhiyi.
The road to the imperial examination is paved with blood and tears. Women pretending to be men are walking on thin ice.
County examination, prefectural examination, rural examination... She walked on the tightrope.
The tight chest hides a shocking secret, and the handsome eyebrows suppress the daughter's emotions.
Until the roll-call in the Golden Palace, the flowers being visited, the officials being praised in the imperial streets, and the splendor moving the capital.
Recruited by aristocratic families, favored by princesses. The prince pays attention, the emperor examines...
A cup of tea, half a volume of idle books, and the fragrance curling up, hiding her shocking secret and unyielding ambition.
Let's take a look at how the female Tanhua deals with the aristocratic family, imperial power and gender, and finds her own path to success in a desperate situation.