Chapter 2: Aunt

是首位，其次才是学习。”

Aunt was never wrong. As soon as I entered the academy, I found it was indeed a gathering place for the best and brightest.

姑姑说得从来都没有错，一入学堂后，我就发现这里真的是聚集了龙子凤孙，天下英杰。

The Cui family, one of the four prominent families with a century of prosperity, pooled all its resources and racked its brains to get me into the Imperial Academy. Of course, being a girl made it even more challenging to gain admission than it would have been for a boy.

百年繁华的四大家族之中的崔家倾全家之力，合族之能，想破了脑袋，用尽了计谋才能把我送来这京师学堂，当然也因为我是女儿身，所以比一般男儿更难进。