After she went outside, the voice disappeared.
A plate of pastries had arrived just then, drawing Jiang Nuan's attention.
Far from finding it strange, Qian Yangxi became even more convinced that her "ancestor" had manifested.
After everything she had experienced that day, the stories she had once found fascinating now seemed dull. Her mind kept wandering, so she simply left the shop.
As luck would have it, no sooner had she left than Jiang Nuan's inner voice rang out again.
[Guagua, tell me, if Wei Xinyuan wants to cheat his way onto the list of successful candidates, is anyone else cheating?]
The thought suddenly occurred to Jiang Nuan.
She rubbed her hands together, ready to send every last cheater behind bars.
[Huh, host, I've been digging up gossip at court for so long, but I really haven't seen any officials helping anyone cheat. That's strange. It defies all logic!]
Guagua found it strange too.
[Could these officials really be that honest? They don't look it, though! Someone offered one of them an enormous sum in banknotes, hoping he would pull a few strings, but he flatly refused. And it wasn't just one official—it was a whole bunch of them.]
Guagua could not make sense of it.
[If it were just one person, we could say his conscience had awakened. But a whole bunch of them? Doesn't that seem a little off? Did all their consciences awaken at once?]
Jiang Nuan propped her head on her hand and pondered for ages without coming up with an answer.
Neither the girl nor the system ever imagined that they themselves were the reason behind the cleanest, most transparent imperial examination in history.
The honest ones would never cheat, while the dishonest ones feared that the moment they did, Jiang Nuan would uncover the