Special Agent Rebirth: The Omnipotent Goddess of Quick Transmigration novel Chapter 996

Chapter 996: 984 Cannon Fodder Male Supporting Character (18) First Update

Zhaoying finished speaking and waited for Ye Shaohua’s reaction.

Ye Shaohua glanced at him, "Oh."

"..."

Zhaoying, who was previously a Dark Guard, didn’t understand much about Ye Shaohua’s affairs. Now that Song Shuyun had brought him into the open, he naturally came to know many things.

Among them, he was very clear about the matters concerning Ye Shaohua, Su Junling, and Ning Zhao.

Zhaoying brought up the matter mainly to see Ye Shaohua’s attitude. Now, her reaction... was indeed cold.

Ye Shaohua did react after listening to Zhaoying’s words.

After speaking to the kitchen, she went up to the top floor, first lit a stick of incense, and then started to write.

By the time she had written a page, the window gently moved, and a young man carrying a birdcage jumped in, "Lady Ye, it wasn’t long since the crown prince asked me about you, and now you’ve come to find me."

After finishing, he recounted the current affairs of the Royal Court.

What Zhaoying knew was only what had surfaced at the Royal Court, and he had spent all his words on Su Junling.

However, the young man was relaying the crown prince’s words, and he knew every detail clearly.

Although the outside world was talking about Su Junling, the emperor in fact supported the crown prince’s reform initiatives, "It’s just that the emperor’s health has been deteriorating lately, and he ended the morning court session early today. Moreover, His Majesty is still practicing alchemy."

After listening to the young man’s words, Ye Shaohua finished writing the letter. Once the ink had dried, she handed it to him.

She also sent a message through the young man, a single word: "Wait."

**

In March of the following year, the emperor fell gravely ill, and the Imperial Examination was overseen by the high officials of the Ministry.

Song Shuyun passed the preliminary examination in February, then the palace examination in March, and was decreed by the emperor as the Number One Scholar.

This news, once it spread from the Imperial Palace, shocked half the empire.

Old Madam Song and Song Family’s Second Master had been anxiously awaiting Song Shuheng’s results, only to hear shortly afterward about the grand procession of the Number One Scholar and the runner-up through the streets.

A Number One Scholar emerges only every few years, and in many years the Royal Court only produced a handful of them. Old Madam Song and the Second Master both came out to watch the spectacle.

But when they saw the procession passing by on horseback, they were startled to their very souls.

It was Song Shuyun, who just last year was lying unconscious in bed. Although it’s complicated how Old Madam Song and Second Master felt about him waking up, considering that the Song Family was now aligned with the crown prince.

And Song Shuheng had become an apprentice to the Prime Minister, firmly on the side of the third prince.

Both watched as the Song Family’s business grew larger and larger, eventually choosing not to return, clearly distancing themselves from the Song Residence.

But to their dying day, they never would have expected that Song Shuyun, who previously showed no particular talent in his studies and had only secured a position through donation, not only luckily passed the preliminary examination but actually succeeded in the palace examination as well! And even became the Number One Scholar!

Even seeing it with their own eyes, the two of them couldn’t believe it.

Especially the Second Master, who even asked whether there had been some mistake.

How could it be Song Shuyun?

Those around who heard the Second Master’s words gave him an odd look; the emperor’s words were inviolable, and now that the parade was underway, how could there be a mistake?

Upon realizing the identities of the Second Master and Old Madam Song, people came to an understanding.

Old Madam Song stood at the street corner, watching the bustling crowd follow the new Number One Scholar.

For a moment, her mind went blank.

The family servant had just come out with Song Shuheng’s ranking; Song Shuheng was lucky to pass the preliminary examination, but in the palace exam, he was listed at the very bottom of the third tier.

For decades, the Song Family had not produced a scholar, and Old Madam Song had originally thought Song Shuheng would be different from the rest of the family. Under normal circumstances, she would have been delighted with a third-tier ranking.