"What's the matter?"
Lin Ke was a little curious.
He had heard that Minister Qi was suppressing a rebellion at the border. Had he still not finished?
"In six months, you'll be competing against Qi Ye. Any thoughts?" Minister Qi spoke the name "Qi Ye" offhandedly, as though he were not talking about his own son.
"Literary, martial, and miscellaneous?" Lin Ke immediately fell into thought.
He had actually come up with a few ideas already.
For the literary category, for instance, they could compete in poetry, lyrics, songs, and rhapsodies without repeating a single piece.
He had not thought of anything for the martial category yet, but Lin Ke reckoned that whatever direction it took, he would probably face some very difficult challenges.
As for the miscellaneous category, Lin Ke felt fairly confident in all Four Arts.
As an arts student in his previous life, he had feared practically nothing as long as he did not have to sit a science exam.
Besides, hadn't he scored over six hundred on his academic exams?
And the defining feature of an arts student was having time on his hands.
Apart from preparing for his arts entrance exams, he had kept exploring all kinds of ancient literature and arts.
For music, he had dabbled in the guqin, guzheng, pipa, suona, erhu, and more.
For board games, while he would not call himself a master of Go or Chinese chess, he could certainly be considered proficient.
For calligraphy, he had made a point of developing a fine hand, earning praise from his instructor back then for his writing in styles such as those of Wang Xizhi and Yan Zhenqing.
Painting went without saying. That was a fundamental skill.
Once a person was no longer particularly short of money, he would turn his attention