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Poor scholar Gu Mingyuan failed the imperial exam three times, and his wife Shen Nianqiu supported their family by running a tea stall. Yet Gu was cold to her because of gossip about “living off a woman.” During his fourth exam, he discovered that Shen had paid off his creditors with her dowry hairpin, chased his blown-away exam paper for two miles, and even inspired his essay with folk stories. When he became the top scholar, he told the emperor honestly: “My title was brewed by my wife’s ten years of tea smoke.” On his return home in glory, he saw Shen still wiping tables at the tea stall, handing him warm tea with a smile. Gu suddenly realized that the peak of life isn’t about winning the title—it’s about having someone walk with you from the mud to the light step by step.
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