Jiang Xun is a female teacher from a rural private school. She has nothing to do with every brick and tile in Chang'an, but she is once again involved in the treacherous political whirlpool because of an imperial examination.
Shen Shaoan, the second son of an ordinary official family, no one had much expectations for him. However, he was repeatedly attacked on his way back to Beijing to take the exam. He fell into the water and rushed to Luojia Village. A strange female teacher told him that the person who was chasing him had an extraordinary origin. When he returned to the capital, he was shocked again by the news that his gentlemanly eldest brother had abandoned his future sister-in-law Jiang's marriage and that the entire Jiang family had been beheaded...
Nothing tastes better than dumplings, so fun...
There will be many female supporting characters, but each woman should have her own color, so romances other than the male and female protagonists will not be too painful.
The political struggle is all in the lines.