Pei Hengyu did not ultimately expose Princess Wenhui. Instead, he gave her the post of a minor captain under the alias Pei Yan. To avoid gossip, he also appointed Jiang Siyu as a captain in the Zhaoyang Hall and ordered the two of them to enter the Capital Suburb Camp together.
After Wen Jingyue completed the imperial examination, Pei Hengyu deliberately named him the top scholar, while Linghu Xinghe, who was widely known as a prodigy, was relegated to the second place.
As soon as the morning court session concluded, Pei Hengyu went to the Imperial Garden. He sat by the lake, his thoughts drifting. The way Wen Jingyue performed the bow was too fluid; it was clearly something he had done hundreds, if not thousands, of times. It was a refinement etched into his bones, not something that could be learned in a day or two. Wen Qiushan had only been transferred to the capital after Consort Wen entered the palace. There was no way his son could have studied under Master Han. So, who exactly was the person in the Zhaoyang Hall today?
Chapter 108