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In the second year of Fenghao's reign in the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Fenghao announced the opening of the imperial examination for women. The Qin wife took part in the imperial examination and got among the top three. She abandoned her daughter and remarried. Sun Yaosu was separated from her mother Qin when she was three years old, and was raised by her grandparents. Her grandfather passed away when she was ten years old, and her grandmother died when she was sixteen. Before her death, her grandmother told Sun Yaosu that her mother Qin Jiaru was the governor of Baining City. Sun Yaosu left her hometown and went to the city to find her mother.