You Failed to Recognize a Pearl for Three Years

I stood by Gu Qingshu for three years, supporting his studies through many cold nights in the hope that he would place third in the palace examination. But on the day he did, he brushed me off with a tattered booklet he had been using to prop up a table leg. "Let this repay what we owe each other. We're even." Everyone laughed at me for being so unlucky, not knowing that I had endured humiliation and hardship, waiting for this very moment. Gu Qingshu had no idea that the booklet he had given me was a ladder to the clouds... [Marrying the third-ranked scholar is nothing compared to climbing the ladder to success myself, one step at a time. That's the real thrill!] And that tattered booklet he used to brush me off would make him the laughingstock of the entire capital in the end! 1. Everyone in the capital knew...