Li Xiaotian is sixteen this year. Five years ago, she came down with a serious illness that left her brain addled, and she lost all her memories. But life has been a lot more cheerful ever since. Every day, she heads out at dawn with a cart full of radishes and pushes it to Anqing Prefecture. By noon, she has sold them all and goes home with her coppers. Then one day, someone suddenly offers to buy her as a maid, at the astronomical price of two hundred taels for ten years!
Li Xiaotian never imagined that the person who wanted to buy her would be Qi Tingyu, the local prefect. Even more surprising, the eldest young master of the Qi family insists that she is exceptionally clever and is determined to make her his study attendant!
Forced to change into a study attendant's short jacket, the illiterate Li Xiaotian says tearfully, "Young Master, I don't know how to grind ink."
The second young master, Qi Shaoming, who has been eavesdropping, rushes in. "I'll do it!"
Five years later, Zhao Mingyue passes the imperial examinations as she had hoped. The first woman to earn the top scholar's title, she arrives at the Qi estate carrying the ancestral tablets, where the whole family comes out to welcome her. Zhao Mingyue looks over their smiling faces one by one and notices that only Qi Shaoxuan is missing. The second young master steps forward and asks in a hushed voice, "Xiaotian, what should I call you? Mingyue? Sister-in-law? Or my bride-to-be?"
Zhao Mingyue glares at him with wide almond eyes. "Cut the nonsense. Where's Qi Shaoxuan!?"
Qi Shaoming feigns surprise. "Why are you looking for my elder brother?"
In front of the prefect and the ancestors, the woman top scholar answers loudly, "I'm here to marry him!"
Theme: The little boat has already passed ten thousand mountains
