"At this point, it is unclear whether you will even manage to keep your life, yet you still harbor delusions of entering the civil service?" The Duke of Anguo truly felt that his son was failing to live up to his expectations.
Upon hearing this, An Yuanqing stood up in shock. "Father, what do you mean by this? I cannot take the autumn imperial examinations? I cannot enter the civil service? Then... then these ten years of hard study, were these ten years of hard study all for nothing?"
The Duke of Anguo strode over to An Yuanqing, grabbed him by the collar, and demanded angrily, "I will ask you one thing: do you want to live, or do you want to be an official?!"
Chapter 123