On the day we broke off the engagement, my fiancé said, "As a woman, what else can you do besides raising your husband and raising your children?"
She took out a piece of complaint on the spot and accused his father of embezzling disaster relief funds.
The whole city laughed at her as she was crazy - women couldn't go to court, and she didn't even have the qualifications to be a plaintiff.
Three months later, she stood in the court hall of Dali Temple and silenced the first-ranking official of the day.
The emperor personally approved: "Prospective women will take part in the imperial examination and serve in the Ministry of Punishment."
And her ex-fiancé was asking someone in prison to say: "Wantang, can you write another appeal for me?"
