When I Failed, You Left; When I Succeeded, I Ask

When I Failed, You Left; When I Succeeded, I Ask Plot:

Lin Zhao failed the imperial exam three times. Su Wan, his girlfriend of five years, despised him for being worthless, smashed his father’s old inkstone, and said, “I can’t even have porridge with you!” Then she went to the county magistrate’s son. Lin Zhao clutched the broken inkstone and studied hard. The next year, he unexpectedly won six first places (from the county exam to the palace exam) and became the most glorious top scholar in the capital. The threshold of his mansion was dented by matchmakers. When Su Wan knelt in front of the mansion in a tattered dress, crying and pulling his sleeve: “I was wrong, I still love you,” Lin Zhao took out the breakup letter she wrote—with a tea stain from when he cried under the inn’s eave: “Once I failed, you said ‘I’d never marry a poor scholar’; now I’ve won six firsts, and suddenly you recognize me as Lin Zhao from back then?”