The court session today seemed exceptionally long.
Yet, no one dared to utter a single word!
The officials, who were silently observing the spectacle, realized that the matter at hand was no longer a simple case of two candidates accusing the imperial examination as unfair. It was a proxy war between two powerful forces. With the situation uncertain, nobody dared to take sides. They all looked on as if watching a play.
Since Bai Yanxi had anticipated this situation, he quickly gathered some information from the previous notes of Hu Zhonghua and Wu Chaoping.
Han Zhao presented a pile of documents to Hu Zhonghua and Wu Chaoping on a tray and asked, "Scholars, are these the essays you wrote previously?"
After examining the papers, they nodded. "Yes, these are the essays we wrote when we first arrived in Ye City, while preparing for the exam in the inn!"
