Chương 326: Chapter 129: One More Subject_2

The Minister of Imperial Treasury's young master had always been frail and took his mother's words as an absolute guide — a fact known throughout Shengjing. Yet now, he had fallen out with his family over a woman, which was indeed a matter of curiosity.

"What kind of beauty would make Dong Lin defy his mother? I wonder," someone speculated.

An arrogant response followed, "She's nothing but a villager, delusionally trying to reach above her station. She's so desperate to make Dong Lin give her his undivided attention that she would even dare to participate in the spring exams. What does she think the spring exams are? You and I should be ashamed to be associated with such a woman when we've entered the Imperial Medical Bureau as scholars!"

Students at the Imperial Medical Bureau always considered themselves superior, looking down on commoner medical workers. Now, hearing that the woman had joined the spring exams out of spite for a man, they inevitably harbored contempt.