short series

Scholar in Famine Years

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During three years of severe drought, impoverished village boy Chen Qingshu secretly studies while his family survives on tree bark. On the night his parents decide to sell his younger sister for food, news arrives that he has topped the imperial exams. But when the imperial envoy comes to their shabby hut, he discovers an shocking secret hidden in the状元 scroll—the ink is mixed with human blood!

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