Fan Wenxuan was a scholar.
His only way out was to participate in the imperial examination; if this path was blocked, his future would be ruined, and Fan Wenxuan would not let such a thing happen.
Fan Wenxuan's mother, Mrs. Liang, was indeed a shrew, far worse than Su Yunjin's step-grandmother, the Tao family. Upon hearing that her son Fan Wenxuan was disqualified from the imperial examination, Mrs. Liang made a scene in the town's schoolhouse. After causing an uproar at the school, Mrs. Liang planned to settle scores with Su Yunjin and her husband.
Her son Fan Wenxuan was now barred from sitting for the imperial examination—all because of Su Yunjin and her husband. If it weren't for them, how would her son have been expelled from the school by the master?
And even had his qualifications for the imperial examination canceled?
