Shen Yanshu, a girl from a poor family in the south of the Yangtze River, was born in modern times when the imperial examination was flourishing but it was difficult for women to pass the exam. She secretly hid pen and ink since she was a child and grew up listening to the sound of books in the academy. She did not believe that women were born to be confined to the kitchen, so with her gift of photographic memory, she disguised herself as a man and embarked on the road to the imperial examination. In the county examination, the edge was revealed, the government examination was full of dangers, and the hospital examination was framed. She used a pen as a blade to break through many barriers. The suspicion of classmates, the suppression of powerful people, and the crisis of identity exposure all follow him like a shadow. She wrote about the sufferings of the common people in her pen and ink, and glimpsed the corruption of officials outside the court. When she was on the Golden Palace, the emperor personally asked her, she took off her men's clothes, stood in front of everyone as a daughter, and asked: Why does it need to talk about men and women when writing about the world?
