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The Butcher's Son's Road to the Imperial Exam

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Li Gou'er, son of a butcher, vows to take the imperial exam to avenge his father—trampled to death by a nobleman's horse. Yet he's scorned for his background: even his teacher sneers, "A hand that held a butcher's knife can't grasp a writing brush." Hiding his father's knife in an old cloth at the bottom of his book chest, he studies through sleepless nights on barley cakes for three years, finally becoming a provincial top scholar. But he discovers the chief examiner is the son of his father's killer! Worse, at the palace exam, the emperor hands him a secret letter: he's the late emperor's lost son, hidden by the butcher couple to save his life. Now, with revenge's knife, the throne's power, and all people's lives on the shoulders of this boy who once wielded a butcher's knife—what he chooses is never just the exam, but the empire's future.

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