In the third year of Yongning, the emperor issued an edict: women could take the imperial examination, and those who passed the examination would be awarded false titles but not actual positions. You can take the exam, but you won't be given an official position.
Three years after the edict was issued, no one took the exam.
Shen Yue, a sixteen-year-old girl from Qixia Village, is proficient in reading, martial arts, and medicine. She said: I want to take the exam.
Pressure from the tribe, difficulties from the examiners, questioning in court, bloody battles at the border - she spent three years proving that women can make a living on their own.
It took her ten years to go from a country girl to a prime minister.
A hilarious and heart-warming story about an ancient all-around female academic who has no golden fingers and relies on her true talents to crush her from a country girl all the way to a prime minister.
