There Is No Good in the World

The day Gu Pingsheng passed the imperial examination, he went crazy. He rushed into the house, hugged his mother and laughed, telling everyone he met that he wanted to be an official and make those who once looked down on the Gu family bow their heads. Everyone thought that this was a boy from a poor family finally coming through. Only Gu Pingsheng himself didn't know—— He thought he had the key to change his destiny, but he didn't know that the key opened another door. When he was twelve years old, the last bag of grain in his home was taken away. The father did not resist, the mother did not cry, and no one in the whole village dared to speak. Because the person who took the food had a piece of paper in his hand. There are words on the paper. The words are printed. But Gu Pingsheng had nothing. From that day on, he decided on one thing: If the poor want to change their destiny, they can only read. So he went to private school, memorized scriptures, and took county, government, and college examinations...