She herself was also forced to swallow that unknown poison!
If she didn't do as instructed, not only would the Wen family be destroyed in an instant, but she herself would also lose her life.
Wen Tingwan's gaze pierced through the crowd and was fixed on her cousin, dressed in palace attire, on the stone steps.
At this moment, she desperately wanted her cousin to feel her desperate gaze and to notice her unusual behavior today.
However, the two were separated by a surging crowd and an insurmountable chasm, and their gazes never met.
The overwhelming despair was like ice water, extinguishing the last glimmer of hope in her heart.
At the stroke of dawn, the gates of the examination hall opened with a loud bang, and the clerks, holding the roster, began to call out the names aloud.
After an unknown period of torment, Wen Tingwan's name was finally called.
My steps felt as heavy as lead as I shuffled forward.
Her face was pale and her eyes were darting around; among the nervous candidates, she didn't stand out much.
She hesitated at the first checkpoint where her identity documents were checked and her appearance was verified; her feet seemed to be nailed to the ground.
Should we... shout it out right now?
Will the imperial court be able to protect the Wen family in time?
Could the imperial physicians determine what poison she was suffering from?
Thinking of that person's last promise...
"What are you standing there for? Hurry up and go into the inspection room!" the clerk beside him urged impatiently.
Wen Tingwan snapped back to her senses, her face paling even more, and replied in a trembling voice, "Yes..."
In the end, she gritted her teeth, lowered her head deeply, and silently walked toward the inspection hut used for body searches, as if resigned to her fate.
All candidates entered the venue in turn, filing into their assigned cells according to their assigned numbers.
At the stroke of Chenshi (7-9 AM), three deep and resonant drumbeats echoed throughout every corner of the examination hall.
All the doors slammed shut and locked with a heavy creak.
Inside the examination hall, constables carrying signs with the exam questions affixed to them began to patrol and display them in the passageways between the rows of examination cells, while clerks distributed blank exam question sheets to each examination cell one by one.
The two-day provincial examination has officially begun!
Qin Zhaoyue, standing outside the examination hall, covered her mouth and secretly yawned.
When the names were called out earlier, she heard Chen Yu's name but didn't look at her.
Yin Zhe has been missing for several days now, and I wonder if he's managed to catch the aristocratic families at all...
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