The Changed Times, an Old Acquaintance's Resentment

In Guling Town, the examinees, hall masters, and others departed one after another, leaving only idle onlookers lingering at the examination grounds.

The crowd looked at one another. Only after a long while did they come back to their senses and realize that this Spring Examination had changed locations yet again.

Thus, some of the crowd dispersed, while others stepped onto the examination grounds and gathered with those who had watched from up close, whispering and discussing among themselves.

Among them, the family members whose children had passed the first two rounds formed their own circle, chattering away, each putting in their two cents.

Fang Shu's second uncle, Yu Le, was mixed in among them.

Yet Second Uncle Yu Le merely listened to the others talk. He wore a smile and nodded in agreement now and then, unwilling to make Fang Shu lose face.

Just then, a figure approached him of her own accord. Before she even arrived, a waft of fragrance came drifting over.

Second Uncle Yu Le looked up, his brows lifting slightly.

The newcomer was a beautiful middle-aged woman. However, her heavily painted face was now streaked with ruined makeup, and her qi and blood were visibly withered, though she still forced herself to keep up her spirits.

She was Fang Shu's former second aunt.

The beautiful woman drew close to Second Uncle Yu Le, as though she wanted to huddle together with him for warmth, yet also as though she wished to fish around for news of Fang Shu.

"Yu the Second, the examinee you serve isn't bad. Why didn't I know before that you had such connections, enough to earn the regard of an immortal figure like that?" the woman said lightly.

Faced with her pleasantries, Second Uncle Yu Le merely smiled. Looking at the