My name is Shen Mo. After eighteen years of hard study, I finally made it.
It took me twelve whole years to climb from a ninth-rank registrar to a sixth-rank assistant prefect.
Today, in court, His Majesty spoke and promoted me once again, to prefect of the fifth rank.
Everyone says my ancestors must have been blessed with good fortune, but only I know that I owe it all to the special secret technique of my “ideal wife.”
My wife says promotions don’t come for free. You have to upgrade everything from the inside out to match.
But I never imagined that the “matching upgrade” she had in mind would nearly upgrade me right into my grave.
