Disguised as a Man to Take the Imperial Exams, the Fisherwoman Rises to the Highest Office

[Woman Disguised as a Man] [Imperial Exam Story] [Several Men Secretly in Love with Her] [Fisherman's Daughter] [Revenge] [Highest Rank in the Court]

Fisherman's daughter Wu Haizhu's father drowned at sea. Before his body had even grown cold, her clan relatives were seizing the fishing boats at the funeral and vowing to wipe out the Wu family.

Her mother tore off her mourning clothes, put on men's clothes, and stood before the coffin. "Who says the Wu family has no men?"

The village chief brought word that her father's death was no accident: people in high places wanted to wipe out the whole family.

With a bloodstained fishing chart she'd taken from her father's body tucked against her, Wu Haizhu put on men's clothes with her mother and fled the fishing village in the dead of night.

The fishing chart revealed a vast web of profits linking officials and bandits. The rampant pirates were not simply a foreign threat. If Wu Haizhu wanted revenge, she had no choice but to enter the fray herself.

From a fisherwoman trampled into the mud to a capable official no one at court dared slight;

From an illiterate girl who couldn't even read a contract to someone who used the law with her own hands to send her enemies to the executioner's block.

A mother and daughter, both disguised as men, conspired together. Her mother did everything she could to support her, and Wu Haizhu, under the assumed name Wu Bing, lived up to her hopes by taking first place in the imperial exams! She introduced new policies, opened schools for girls, quelled the pirates, and took down corrupt officials!

In government, Wu Haizhu saw far too many temptations and too much corruption, but she never forgot her original purpose. "All I want in this life is for the people to have enough to eat, for children to be able to go to school, and for women to step beyond the inner chambers."