1. Huai Su is a country girl who can only write her own name. One day, a civil service exam System suddenly drops from the sky and orders her to do five years of practice exams and three years of college entrance exams. She soars to success, wins top honors, and becomes a good official who loves the people.
Huai Su points at her ample chest. "Who? Who did you say was taking the imperial exams?"
System: "Ah, why are you a woman?"
Huai Su: "Ah, why am I a woman?"
System: "Ahhhhhhhhh! I can't go on! Let's all die together!"
2. Well, there's no going back now.
Huai Su wraps herself in white cloth, ties up her hair, and disguises herself as a handsome young man while the System screams in despair.
She conceals her identity, bids farewell to her parents, and sets off to take the exams.
Huai Su: "So here's the question: where am I supposed to get the money to go to school?"
The System stops crying. "How about this? I've got a few novels. Take them, copy them to sell for money, and learn to write at the same time."
Huai Su takes them:
The Domineering Prince's Passionate Love, The Abandoned Consort Leaps from a Building, Her Beauty Ruined: Your Majesty, You Were the One Who Didn't Want Me First, Sweet Concubine with a Lucky Pregnancy: Seven Babies at Once, the Heirless Emperor Smiles So Hard His Mouth Splits Open
Huai Su falls into thought. Are these novels of yours... respectable?
3. She nervously passes the county-level exam, trembles her way through the provincial exam, and calmly passes the metropolitan exam. Wait, hold on. Why does something feel off?
Her gentle roommate holds up her chest binder. "It's cold. Put on more clothes."
The wealthy young master who keeps trying to make Huai Su his lover: "When you pass the imperial exams, come back and marry me."
The male ghost who's been haunting her every night since their encounter at the City God Temple: "Darling, come to bed early tonight."
The aloof Grand Tutor taps her on the forehead. "Give me a kiss, and I'll let you pass the exam."
The haughty prince studies The Prince's Beloved. "Tch, you have terrible taste. You like men like this?"
The prince of the grasslands bows in the palace hall. "King of the Central Plains, if you grant me Xiao Su, we won't invade the Central Plains for thirty years."
Huai Su scratches her head. Surely no one's figured out she's a woman disguised as a man, right?
Right?
Theme: Study hard and keep your feet on the ground.
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