You know better now, don't you?
"..."
In her examination cubicle, Lin Daiyu was completely unaware of the attention and discussion focused on her from the high platform.
Her cubicle was near the front of the hall. Many of the candidates around her had already begun writing furiously or racking their brains as they tested their pens on the draft paper. But she remained rigidly seated on the cold chair, like a lifeless jade statue.
She felt the world around her gradually slipping away, until all that remained were the three exam papers on her desk, giving off the cold scent of ink, and the ever-deepening despair in her heart.
Spread out on her desk were three exam papers made of silkworm-cloud-patterned paper, their edges marked with intricate anti-forgery spirit runes. She recognized every character written on them, but when they came together to form three complex policy essays, discussion questions, and calculation problems, her mind went completely blank!
Time ticked away, second by second, like the fine sand slipping through the neck of the enormous hourglass in the examination hall.
Yet she still couldn't write a single word, not even one stroke.
At that moment, in those circumstances, Lin Daiyu felt not only lost, helpless, and bewildered, but above all, afraid!
Yes, afraid!
She was afraid that if she handed in a blank paper, something terrible might happen!
By then...
Perhaps the Immortal Selection Bureau would discover that she had cheated in the Yingying Examination?
After all, she had taken first place in both the literary and martial tests, earning a reputation as a once-in-a-millennium genius girl. But now she was handing in a blank paper at the Immortal Assembly Examination. What would people say? What would they think of her?
Would someone accuse her of cheating in the