TN | The Malicious Empress

Chapter 40: An Era's Law Essay

On the stage, the male group of 'selection' continued.

Essay topics on righteousness and poetry conforms with the norms of society, thus many would choose them. As long as one's memory was excellent and read thoroughly about the topic, it would be easy for anyone to perform well. In contrast, the essays on current affairs were only a few.

An essay on current affairs aimed at the views on the current matters and situation at court and thus was very practical. This was the closest category to the affairs of court and as most of the students present were young, most of them would be ignorant of the court affairs, except for the few who at their residences were disciples of professors, there would not be any good essay on current affairs. Thus this essays were the hardest topic, but if one was able to perform well, it was as good as getting half of one's feet into the official circles.

Jennie looked at the chess in front of her.

In the past Pei Namjoon's 'Circulation of Law' was composed during the third round, 'challenge'. In this last round anyone could challenge anyone, males could challenge females and females could also challenge males, thus naturally students could pick their teachers to challenge.

And one of the male students picked Pei Namjoon, a teacher. Pei Namjoon was also a brilliant talent. Within only a few steps into the stage, he was able to complete an essay on current affairs which was flowing with quotes from classics, but it was not exaggerated and every part of it was extremely crucial. It was simply stunning.

At that time, many princes paid attention to it but Pei Namjoon was a smart person and said that he only wanted to be an accounting teacher in Oak Wood Academy and wanted to not think about other matters. With such a determined mindset if Fu Jong Kai did not approached him a number of times for his service and even Jennie had to come out with ideas, Pei Namjoon would most likely not entered officialdom.

The game of chess was crisscrossed, just like her previous lifetime. She flicked her sleeves and the whole game was wrecked.

Jennie pick up a piece and restarted the game. How about her starting first?

Gao Hoseok fixed his sleeves and tidied his hair before asking the footboy beside him, "How does this master looks like?"

"Young Master is suave, romantic, handsome, elegant..." The foot boy words flew out quickly as he opened his mouth.

Gao Hoseok lips curled up proudly and was about to rise to walk over towards the stage. When Gao Jing saw that, he grabbed him and asked, "What are you doing?"

"Selecting." Gao Hoseok said.

Gao Jing knitted his brows as he understood how much weight his younger brother had. It was alright if he had no talents but he loved to be in the limelight. Now with the entire court in attendance at the banquet, it was not the time to take the wrong turn. Gao Jing said, "You know how?"

When these words landed in Gao Hoseok's ears, they sounded different. He and Gao Jing were blood brothers from the same mother but when people mention the Gao family, they would first praise Gao Jing. Gao Jing was born with delicate features but he was rugged and tan, He helped his father to handle things from a young age, however every time he wanted to talk with his father about court affairs, his father would shake his head with impatience. Gao Jing and Gao Hoseok were brothers and there should not be any disagreement but because of how others view them, discord bloomed. Gao Hoseok felt inferior under his oldest brother's light and to hear Gao Jing's current words, he became angry. Initially he had some hesitation as the essay was too well written, but now there was not a trace of hesitation at all.