"Truly terrifying!" Lub Su chuckled, staring at Cai Zhaoji's test paper—untainted by a single amendment or ink blot. Since receiving it yesterday, he had attempted it multiple times, yet could not solve the problem.
Given that the Political Office staff personally reviewed the numerology paper without anonymizing the authors, Cai Yan's perfect score was genuinely unsettling to them.
"Should we recruit her as an official? Such talent, wasted at home, is truly a loss." At this point, Xun Yue abandoned any ideology that women were unsuited for official positions. He himself was baffled by the problem, while Cai Yan sailed through it with ease.
"It's not that we don't want her as an official; she simply doesn't wish to be one. She prefers staying at home to read, or managing books at the Library Pavilion," Li Youu said with a bitter smile. Though he'd been Cai Yan's uncle for years and cared for her, he was truly astonished by her prowess for the first time.
