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You Left When I Failed, Now Who Are You?

share time: 2025-12-11 06:01:40

Gu Zhao, a poor scholar, and Su Wan, his childhood neighbor, were inseparable. Su Wan worked secretly in an embroidery shop to fund his imperial exams. But on the day Gu Zhao failed for the third time, Su Wan left a letter: "I don't want to wait for someone who'll never succeed." Three years later, Gu Zhao achieved the rare feat of topping six levels in the exam and returned home as the most celebrated zhuangyuan (top scholar). At the city gate, he saw Su Wan in an old cotton coat—she clutched the silver hairpin she'd secretly given him, crying: "I left because someone wanted to kidnap you for debt. I had to marry a rich man to save you..." Gu Zhao hugged her with red eyes, taking out a string of pearls: "I bought one pearl every time I passed an exam, waiting for you to wear them."

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