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"Understood, understood!"
"Why are you stuttering? Affairs of the heart are the very nature of man. Now that you've got a head start into the Li Mansion, you must seize the opportunity. Otherwise, if some other vixen comes along, how could a little girl like you compete against that? Oh, if only I'd had your sisters instruct you more!"
"Father!!"
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Three months later, outside the county town, a new academy opened.
"Is this the Guo Bei Academy?"
"Li Jie Yuan truly has a mind that wanders beyond the skies, as elusive as an antelope hanging by its horns. Impossible to fathom!"
"Exactly, at a time like this, instead of rushing to the capital to take the exams, he opened an academy. What is he thinking? Does he not want his fame and status anymore?"
"Could it be that he is not confident about this imperial examination, so he's delaying it for now and will take the exams in the next session?"
