The moment she lifted her eyes, every man at court lost his composure!
Who says women can't rise above sixth rank?
At eighteen, Wen Zhaowei transmigrated to Dalan and opened her eyes in the middle of a public hearing to expel her from school. In this world, women could study, but they were allocated only one-tenth as many examination places as men. No matter how capable a woman was, her career in government could rise no higher than the sixth rank.
Some tried to force her to press her fingerprint on a document and leave the women's academy. Others sneered that a pretty girl like her only studied to marry into a powerful family. Wen Zhaowei refused to accept it.
She entered the stolen meal rations in her ledger, laid the altered exam papers before the court, and recorded every miscalculation, misjudgment, and lost contest in her own book of mistakes.
From the bottom of the women's academy rankings to first place in the county exams; from fighting for a place in the regular examination hall to investigating military achievements on the frontier and reaching the imperial throne. Trade routes, military power, ancient customs, and the throne: everyone said women had no business touching them.
Wen Zhaowei looked up and smiled. “If the rules say only men can write them, then I'll rewrite the questions myself.”
Later, she became Dalan's first empress.
