At dawn, the morning star sinks above Muyang's walls. For eight years, a humble clerk has swept the floors.
Who knows the brilliant scholar of the Imperial Academy, hidden away in the Department of Fine Wines, a rare talent in obscurity?
One jar of spring brew astonishes the whole hall. From then on, success follows at every step.
At the Reception Office, welcoming and seeing off guests, he can tell truth from lies over a cup.
Mu Bai secretly learns from him and becomes lost in jealousy; Xu Qian yields to virtue, and turns enmity into gratitude.
A counterfeit wine scandal tempers him in true fire. In the Misty Rain Tower, the sound of a flute is heard.
Five years of rising and falling in officialdom are all held in the deep days and months within a pot.
Do not say a humble clerk lacks ambition. Heaven has always rewarded the diligent.
If you ask what this life is like: half a pot of cloudy wine, half a sky of drifting clouds.
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