"Daughter, don't scare your father. Tell me properly what you really think about this."

Xiao Yuanshan was afraid of provoking her to utter more shocking words, so he asked her questions with utmost gentleness.

Xiao Zhixing smiled, his eyes crinkling. "What? My father doesn't want to acknowledge me anymore if I don't get married?"

"Oh, girl, don't try to fool me. You have to reassure me about this." Xiao Yuanshan circled around her like a big wolfhound that desperately needed a chicken leg, which was quite amusing to watch.

"I'm not trying to fool you. I have no plans to get married right now. No man in this world is good enough for me for the time being."

"Really? You don't not want to get married? You just haven't found someone you like yet?"

"real!"

As for the future, she will definitely not look at him again. She is very cold-hearted and cold-blooded. The things she has to do are too difficult. She can hardly devote her whole life to managing a marriage.

Xiao Yuanshan breathed a sigh of relief and smiled, "That's good. If we don't want to think about it now, we're not in a hurry. We'll meet again someday."

Xiao Zhixing nodded, "You should think about whether His Majesty will randomly bestow a marriage upon me."

One sentence successfully diverted his attention.

[Red comment: Come on, third dimension, let me spoil it for you: did she actually get married?]

[Green comment: We're all very curious and want to gossip about it too.]

[Yellow comment: Uh... *****, well, I can't say, can't spoil it, just watch it slowly.]

[Yellow comment: The goddess is beautiful on her own! Who needs a man!]

[Yellow comment: We really have nothing to say.]

Bai Su: "I'm curious too! Shouldn't a woman like our prince be married to both men and women? How can just one or two be worthy of her status?"

The three viewers in the live chat were laughing and giving her a lot of likes to her post.

After that, everything was calm and peaceful. It was hard to tell whether the new students in the Gentleman's Courtyard were good or bad. They were very well-behaved after entering the Gentleman's Courtyard, probably because their families had given them instructions.

In the provinces, they were powerful and influential young masters, but in the capital, even a dragon had to be subservient to them.

Interestingly, the young men who belonged to the military faction became close to Huo Baijun and Xiong Chumo, while those who belonged to the civil official faction became close to Li Jun and Liu Zizai.

Among them, Nian Chenghan and Zhao Lin seemed to have remained neutral, Mu Zixi remained low-key, and Zhang Zhong also seemed to be low-key because he was an illegitimate son.

The girls formed their own group and all hung out with Xiao Zhixing.

Finally, the first seven days have arrived.

Yang Du, who had disappeared, reappeared on time and announced the rules of the quiz: "Students who have not yet arrived will receive the quiz questions on their way and take the test at the same time. Please proceed."

The small room inside the study hall finally came in handy, making it easier for everyone to take the exam.

Xiao Zhixing opened the test paper and glanced at it. It was the same type of question as the first selection exam for the Gentlemen's Academy.

The content has changed, but it is all about current affairs and political issues closely related to the Great Sheng Dynasty, or the focal points of debate among the ministers in the court.

One test paper consists of current affairs analysis, another is a long essay on policy, and the third covers general knowledge, psychology, and other topics.

Xiao Zhixing: Family members, who understands? I've been away from Earth for over two hundred years, and I still have to take the provincial and national civil service exams!

She finished the exam at a leisurely pace, and the time was just enough. It was all thanks to the fact that she had been a civil service exam candidate in an ancient era in one of her past lives and had studied the eight-legged essay.

[Yellow comment: I admire you, Your Highness actually managed to finish! Back in my day, I was so stressed from taking the exam that I went bald, my hands were shaking and my feet were cold, and I even forgot to fill in the answer sheet.]

[Yellow comment: It's amazing how the exam questions from the Gentlemen's Academy gradually became templates for the imperial examinations, and now they've become templates for all kinds of official exams. It feels so familiar!]

[Yellow comment: This kind of exam is constantly changing; the events are different every year, and new things emerge. Apart from some writing formats that are used repeatedly, you simply can't plagiarize.]

[Yellow comment: To prevent cheating, each exam consists of ten sets of questions, totaling over ten thousand questions, created by a group of examiners. Before the exam, the chief examiner randomly selects question numbers from these sets and compiles them into a completely new exam paper. Tsk tsk, that's absolutely insane.]

[Red comment: Your exam method is pretty good. We're still using the old-fashioned, formulaic style of writing. We've reformed a lot, but the exam questions are still outdated.]

[Green comment: Who's more miserable than us? Ancient books and rare editions have disappeared, our cultural lineage has been severed, and all the official exams that followed were modeled after Western ones, with many controversial aspects still existing.]

Xiao Zhixing raised his hand to hand in his paper, and Yang Du personally collected the papers. Soon after, everyone handed in their papers.

When the time came, only Huo Baijun, Li Wenxiu, Zhao Lin, and a few newcomers hadn't finished and had to hand it in.

Li Wenxiu and Huo Baijun didn't care at all. These two were very carefree and always felt that they were just there to accompany everyone to play.

Li Wenxiu muttered, "These questions involve too much knowledge; I can only manage to answer about 50% of them."

Huo Baijun curled his lip, "I only know 30%."

Feng Zhen'er said, "I find it interesting."

Zhao Xianyin nodded, twirling her fingers around the ends of her hair. "I always feel that these questions are very profound."

Xiao Zhixing glanced at her; this girl was really perceptive.

The other questions were fairly normal; they were designed to broaden your horizons and test your approach and style in dealing with various situations.

Only those psychological test questions subtly probe each person's character.

There are thousands of emperors, but a qualified emperor must be clear-headed and opinionated, unafraid to take responsibility, not extreme and know how to maintain balance, have a broad mind and compassion for the world, be a demon in body but a bodhisattva in heart, be ruthless as well as kind and gentle, and have a personality that is gray.

A person who sees things in black and white cannot be an emperor; sitting in that position would be very painful for them.

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