The Prime Minister's Darling

Chapter 618 - 618 298 Strength (First Update)

?Chapter 618: 298 Strength (First Update) Chapter 618: 298 Strength (First Update) Ning Zhiyuan deeply felt sorrow for Xiao Liulang.

It was his first time in the Capital City. However, it wasn’t his first brush with officialdom. He had been a teaching assistant at the prefectural school in his area, and served as an ad hoc clerical officer next to the county magistrate.

He had seen the dark side and the struggle that comes with officialdom, but he never expected such injustices to exist even in a pristine place like the Hanlin Academy.

Indeed, his life had not been entirely smooth sailing either. Still, his difficulties were within normal range, typical of a person with no power, influence, or background; someone who was not given much importance.

In contrast, Xiao Liulang was being deliberately suppressed.

Only because Xiao Liulang had a strong mindset, and had not lost his cool, he managed to keep it together. Any other person would have lost their composure by now.

Ning Zhiyuan didn’t say anything more, he patted his shoulder and left with a sigh.

Xiao Liulang went to wash his writing brush, and when he came to the ink wash pond, it so happened that Prince Anjun was also there washing his brush.

He need not do it himself; he had people to do it for him.

He was surrounded by colleagues garlanding him with compliments.

“I heard Zhuang Bianxiu scored first place, just goes to show real gold isn’t afraid of the fire!”

“Absolutely! Nobody can show bias this time!”

While they were speaking without hesitation, they also directed their poignant glances towards Xiao Liulang.

How Xiao Liulang came to be first place all along had been “well spread” in the capital city. It was said that he had benefitted from having a face that resembled the young lord of Zhaodu by seven or eight points and thus had won the favor of the young lord’s biological father and brothers from the same sect.

Even his title of number one scholar was thought to have been given out by the emperor intentionally to suppress the Zhuang family.

The emperor naturally couldn’t meddle in everything; the emperor’s influence did not extend to the Hanlin Academy. And there you have it, in his first Hanlin examination, his true colors were revealed!

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