Qiluo Realm, a continent where fragments of fairy tale kingdoms merge. Three hundred years ago, the reverse tide destroyed the laws of narrative, and the Eastern imperial examination system of scholar-bureaucrats became the new core of power. Shen Hengzhi, the legitimate daughter of the Shen family in Bailu Township, was supposed to be reduced to a cannon-fodder peasant woman according to the script - her fiancé Xie Xuandu climbed up to the noble girl of Cinderella City, teamed up with the squire to frame her for losing her virginity, and drank her the decoction to force her to break off the engagement. At a critical moment, the jade pendant left by the ancestors shattered into a portable space: the spiritual spring nourishes all things, the fertile soil can grow fairy rice, and the warehouse is filled with original copies of the imperial examinations from previous lives. She used cultured pearls to break the situation, and used the spiritual spring to wash away the toxins in her body. She also discovered that the double-moon constitution in her body-the pattern of avoiding children and the seal of seeking children alternated with the moon phases, was actually a gift from the blood of the ancient witch clan. Yao Lingyi sent the secret papers of the imperial examination, Pei Yizhi secretly blocked the plot correction, and Lu Huaijin taught her the eight-legged essay to solve the questions. In three years of hard work, she advanced from the county examination to the palace examination, and used space spiritual plants to improve grain seeds and save millions of lives. When the original protagonist of the fairy tale counterattacked with her power, she took off her disguise at the court and said: "Xie Xuandu, the inheritance soup you owe me, I will pay it back tenfold today." In the Golden Palace of the imperial examination, the empress personally wrote the approval: "The first female Jinshi, breaking the rules and entering the Imperial Academy." And her real battlefield is the final showdown with the laws of narrative - rewriting the ending of all cannon fodder.
Jiang Yingxue's writing hand hung on the clear paper, and the ink fell from the tip of the pen, spreading into a cloud of turbid black.
Outside the hall, the petals of pear blossoms were being swept across the bluestone steps by the wind. Three years ago today, the tide reversed and swallowed Cinderella City into this never-ending chaos. She remembered that night when her mother coughed up blood and collapsed in front of the altar. She remembered that the lines in her body were like snakes twisting their belly for the first time - those curse lines that were imprinted in the bones and blood.
