The note clearly reads: "In the third month of spring in the thirty-sixth year of Qiyuan, Chu Yuning gave Shen Yuan five hundred coins, which will be returned in full once she passes the imperial examination."
Is this an IOU given to her by someone else?
Xiao Ling picked up a pen and circled all the characters “予”, “讨”, and “回”, and then wrote the meanings of these characters next to them.
He didn't know which character Shen Yuan recognized, so he wrote down several more characters with similar meanings.
Next to the character “予” is written “给、赠、送”.
Shen Yuan quickly understood the meaning of the three words Xiao Ling had circled.
She was certain that she hadn't learned anything wrong. She had copied all the characters Chu Yuning had taught her into her notebook countless times, studying them with utmost care. Unless… she had been learning them incorrectly all along.
It turns out that Chu Yuning had been lying to her for ten years!
His vows were false, his written agreements were false, even his promise to teach her to read was a lie! He's a complete fraud, not a single word he says is true!
To deceive himself, he wrote an IOU and deliberately misled himself, causing him to misread so many words!
Shen Yuan braced herself against the corner of the table, a chill spreading from the soles of her feet to her entire body, making her shiver with cold.
In her previous life, the reason she fell in love with Chu Yuning was because he was the only educated boy in the village.
He taught her to recite poems, taught her the principles of sages, and held her hand as he taught her to write, stroke by stroke. He let her appreciate the magnificent momentum of the Yellow River flowing down from the sky, and he also let her see the fleeting glimpse of a boat full of dreams pressing down on the Milky Way.
He was the one who showed her a wider world through books, which is why she entrusted her heart to him.
But now Xiao Ling is telling her that it was all fake! Wrong!
Although she had seen through Chu Yuning's true colors long ago, Shen Yuan still felt a slight, subtle pain in her heart caused by this incident.
She only just discovered the truth!
If she really took these so-called "IOUs" to the yamen, she would have to give Chu Yuning money in return! Chu Yuning has such a vicious mind!
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