Map Opens the Literary Path

Qi Yao settled things with her mother and left the house in high spirits.

The Princess Consort still sat there in a daze, repeatedly grabbing the maid beside her and asking, "Do you think Bei'er might really pass the metropolitan examination and become a jinshi?"

The maid's expression was rather strange. She nodded again and again, saying what the Princess Consort wanted to hear, but something was clearly off about her demeanor...

She was no ordinary person. No ordinary person could have remained at the Princess Consort's side for decades, as close as sisters...

From the moment the County Princess entered, she had felt that something was wrong. It was still February, and the weather was quite cold. Why had the County Princess put on summer clothes so early?

When she saw the Chastity Mark, she understood a little. Oh, she had deliberately displayed it to show that her Chastity Mark was still there...

But perhaps because she was closer, perhaps because she had paid greater attention, when she examined it carefully, she discovered that something was wrong with the Chastity Mark. If nothing unexpected had happened, it should have been rouge...

My heavens, the County Princess had already done that...

Should she tell the Princess Consort?

But the Princess Consort was so delighted. Pouring a basin of cold water over her head now would only make everyone unhappy.

After hesitating for a long while, she ultimately chose to keep quiet!

Qi Yao went to see her father. When he heard that Lin Su had already left, he sank into deep melancholy over the loss of his drinking companion for the evening. But when Qi Yao told Father King about her second brother again, Prince Nan laughed until flowers seemed to bloom from his face. Though he had not drunk,