Lin Wanqing, a top student in the Department of Literature and History, died suddenly after staying up late studying ancient books, and became an orphan girl from a poor family who was bullied during the Great Qi Dynasty.
The original owner's parents died, and his family property was cannibalized and occupied by his clan members. Just because he tried to register for the imperial examination, he was accused of ruining the family tradition. He was severely injured with a cane, abandoned in a broken house, and died with hatred.
Once her soul changed, the timid girl's eyes were filled with only sharpness. Lin Wanqing knew very well that Daqi's imperial examination laws were liberal and had never explicitly prohibited women from taking the examination. Everyone in the world is trapped in secular prejudices and believes that women are confined to the boudoir and have no chance of fame, so she has to go against the current.
Wearing black silk and saffron makeup, she abandoned her boudoir training and went to the examination hall. With her solid knowledge, she stood out from thousands of poor students. From a rural boy to a scholar in the capital, she cut through the shackles with her writing and shocked the court with her policies. Along the way, she slapped snobbish tribesmen in the face, crushed pedantic scholars, and broke the shackles of class and gender.
The scientific examination supervisor Xie Yanci, the powerful Marquis of Zhenbei, saw everything in the court with cold eyes, but he treated this young man from a poor family in a different way. He saw through her daughter's body hidden under the cloth, and saw her tenacity to survive in desperate situations. He protected her silently in the dark, protected her in the court with all his strength, and shielded her from rumors, criticism, and the storm in the court.
Everyone in the world praised the new top scholar for his unparalleled elegance and talent, but no one knew that this prodigy who stirred up the chaos in the court was actually a Hongzhuang.
When fame and fortune have settled, Lin Wanqing takes off her men's clothes and puts on her skirt, settles old grudges, sticks to her heart, stands in court as a woman, and protects the people. She broke free from the prison of fate and lived a life of unprecedented magnificence. She also accepted the unique and affectionate preference of a powerful minister, and achieved a prosperous marriage that went both ways.
The purpose: to break the shackles of gender and class, to establish oneself with talent, to break the situation with merit, to realize self-worth through the counterattack of the imperial examination, to keep one's true heart and protect justice in troubled times, to encounter evenly matched two-way rushes, to interpret the growth and character of women who break away from secular prejudice and control their destiny.