Volume Two, Chapter 44

I came to supervise you working, but you dumped all the work on me and what are you doing yourselves? Search yourselves! He sat back down in his overseer's chair, cradling his tea cup, and swallowed a large gulp in resentment as he looked at the wind direction of the examination hall.

Three days later, the Ministry of Personnel recopied all the dossiers. Another three days later, the Ministry of Personnel graded all the autumn assessment dossiers of Dongxu Mansion, with the examiners sending one copy to the Holy Emperor's Dragon Desk and another into the Prime Minister's Residence.

As in previous years, all the dossiers in the Prime Minister's Residence were handed over to Li Chenjing, who went through them first before organizing the more noteworthy dossiers to give to his father.

Li Chenjing spent several days in his father's study. Until he finished reading all the essays and organized the titles into a volume placed on his father's desk, he discovered that a strange dossier had been left aside on his father's desk, which he had not read—

Picking up that sheet of paper, he briefly scanned it. The preceding essays were fairly neat, and the writing style was not particularly outstanding, except that a short poem added at the very end suddenly made his complexion turn pale. Clutching the paper tightly in his palm, the next moment he hurriedly rushed out of the estate toward the palace gates.

Before the Dragon Desk, Zhao Huangpu stared at a sheet of paper with a deep, smiling expression, when the sound of a young eunuch desperately trying to block someone suddenly came from outside the hall doors.

Lord Li, His Majesty has not summoned you, you cannot go in.

Step aside!

*Lord Li, His Majesty might be resting. If you