In the first year of the Empress’s reign, Xue Jiao, who had transmigrated and been raised as a boy since childhood, set out resolutely on the imperial examination path to uncover the truth about who had killed her and what had really happened to her father. After all, she had only just finished a master’s degree in agricultural science before transmigrating. All she knew how to do was study and research farming. She was also betting that the Empress would open the imperial examinations to women...
As it turned out, in the Empress’s second year on the throne, just as Xue Jiao was preparing to sit the entry-level examination after two years of study, the Empress opened the examinations to women.
