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Edited by Tnyhy & Larkspur (Updated 30th May 2022)

Chapter 37: His Questioning

“Young Lady.” Gu Yu and Jing Zhe were somewhat vigilantly protective in front of Shen Miao and made gaffes with their somewhat loud shouts. Moreover, this richly-clad youth was extremely good and noble looking that one could not help but be suspicious of his identity. In the end, he was a stranger, thus Gu Yu and Jing Zhe were afraid that something unexpected might happen.

“Gu Yu, Jing Zhe, go and stand guard at the entrance of the forest.” Shen Miao said.

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Chapter 36: Purple Clad Youth

The most supreme was the Imperial power. But more powerful than the Imperial power were the commoner’s mouths.

Of course one could use iron and bloody methods to suppress them down but till that day comes, the commoners dare not to speak nonsense and words would only spread through jokes and would not be a big offence.

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Chapter 35: Understanding

The discussion continued while the examiners on stage showed the crowd the paintings to view and to display the fairness of the results.

Fan Liu-er’s and Zhao Yan’s painting was a road of a blooming garden scene. In all fairness, it was pretty but was too ordinary thus they naturally were ranked the lower.

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Chapter 34: Winning

The examiners were up on stage discussing the results of the examinations and the students below the stage were also in the heat of discussion.

Today Shen Miao did not make a fool of herself and that made the academy examinations seem a little boring, but many of her classmates who did not look at her now paid her more attention. Humans were all weird. When a normally terrible person performed a little better, perhaps others would think that there would be a reversal of fortune.

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Chapter 33: To Paint

The chief examiner was the professor from the government cabinet, Zhong Zi Qi. He was a little old man with a full head of grey hairs and was normally extremely serious. He opened the scroll in his hands and began to read the topics for today’s exams.

As for ‘painting’, this category was actually different every year. However, since this year the academy examinations and the Chrysanthemum feast were held together, the topic was much simpler. Like ‘literary’ in which the topic was Chrysanthemum, the topic for ‘painting’ was also Chrysanthemum.

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Chapter 32: Same Group

The examiners in charge of the academy examinations was already up on stage and the personnel that were holding the wooden buckets had recorded the different categories to divide it to groups for the examinations.

First up were the female groups, for the four scholarly arts. The students of Guang Wen Tang did not have to take the academy examinations in the first grade, only when they are in grade two and three. Grade Three were done at the next wave and thus only Grade Two students were left with around twenty over people.

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Chapter 31: Don’t Endure

“Painting?” Feng An Ning stretched her neck and when she saw the paper in Shen Miao’s hand, she was also slightly stunned for a moment before saying, “Do you know how?”

This was actually sincere words as Shen Miao did not have any knowledge on the four scholarly arts. There should be an implicit charm in painting which was needless to say if one cannot even paint.

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2nd additional chapter of the week!! THANK YOU DONORS!!!

Chapter 30: Drawing Lots

Fu Xiu Yi belonged to the Imperial family and naturally would not be ignorant to the methods that the Imperial family used. The clear sound of the teacup might seem like an accident but it had disrupted the musicians rhythm and could no longer stir up everyone feelings. He naturally want to know who was the initiator. Fu Xiu Yi has a cautious and suspicious temperament thus he did not think that the other did it unintentionally.

The purple clad female was talking to others with her chin resting on her hand. She look indifferent and afar but there was an indescribable air about her that clearly set her apart from others.

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