When she only wanted to take the top prize, her cousin, who called himself "Duan Xiu", was planning how to "marry" himself into her title list.
"Why can't women enter the imperial examination and become officials?"
When Su Shuyue wrote this sentence for the seventh time, the ink on the tip of the pen deeply soaked into the rice paper.
As the only daughter of the most reclusive scholar in the world, she only wanted to rely on her talents and knowledge to carve her name on the gold list.
For this reason, she disguised herself as a man and sneaked into the highest university in the capital, but she didn't know that the policy she had casually written down had been secretly observed by her cold and noble cousin for three years.
Gu Yanzhi, the youngest Hanlin scholar in his dynasty and a well-known gentleman, had an unknown secret: he was obsessed with every ink mark written by "Junior Brother Su". Until that day, he saw with his own eyes the familiar cinnabar mole on his "junior brother's" earlobe - it was his cousin he had never met.
An imperial examination brought out the grudges of two generations. Lin Wanru, the mistress of the Gu family, looked at this distant relative with contempt, but she didn't know that the person she was making things difficult for was the only daughter of the Su family who was always polite to the emperor when he saw her.
"Mother, my son is unfilial," Gu Yanzhi knelt in front of the ancestral hall in front of everyone, his voice was clear, "I only love men in my life, and he is my cousin from the Su family."
While the entire capital was in an uproar, Su Shuyue was calmly writing down the best strategies for governing the world in front of the exam questions prepared by the emperor. Until the day when the results were released, her name was at the top of the list, and the whole Gu family was kneeling in front of the Su Mansion with fear - asking for marriage? No, it's asking for "marriage".
"Master Gu," she raised her red hijab with a smile as bright as a flower, "please give me more advice in the future."
