Guo Liuer's eyes lit up. "Really? Manager Qin, you're so amazing, can you get Si Lang to marry me?"

Qin Xiaozhou frowned. "Who is Si Lang?"

Guo Liuer kept rambling on, "Si Lang is the most promising man in our village. He will pass the imperial examination in two years and become a scholar. Then I will be a scholar's wife. But, but he has been taken a liking to a rich girl. That girl is threatening Si Lang's parents, and Si Lang has no choice but to marry that girl. Waaaaaah!"

Is this a case of being forced apart like lovers?

The embroiderers on the third floor couldn't help but sigh, "It's truly a cruel twist of fate that lovers cannot be together in the end."

"Whose young lady is so domineering!"

“By abusing their power, they forcibly separated the lovers. Liu’er and Si Lang’s lives are truly miserable.”

"Si Lang is also a filial son. That rich girl actually used her parents to coerce him. She is truly wicked."

Qin Xiaozhou asked in confusion, "How do you know that this Fourth Prince will be able to pass the imperial examination and become a scholar in two years?"

Guo Liuer choked, "He, he said he would pass the exam. He's already a student of the first level of the imperial examination. Every month he goes to the restaurant to attend the literary gatherings held by the literati in the county town. He said he can learn something that way. He hasn't missed a single gathering. How could he not pass the exam?"

The embroiderers started gossiping again, "A literary gathering? There are actually literary gatherings in the county town?"

"Yes, of course! My brother is a scholar, and he goes there often too."

"I heard that it costs five hundred coins to attend that literary gathering!"

Qin Xiaozhou sneered, "Guo Liuer, did you pay for Si Lang's trip to the literary gathering?"

“Yes,” Guo Liuer said with considerable pride. “He said that as long as he passed the imperial examination and became a scholar, he would marry me and let me wear clothes made by the embroidery workshop every day. But, but he was forced to marry someone else. I, I…”

Qin Xiaozhou said coldly, "Oh, you've been fooled."

"No! No!" Guo Liuer exclaimed excitedly. "He's such a good person, he didn't lie to me. It was that rich girl who caused all this trouble, breaking us up! I'm going to jump off this building today to protest against injustice!"