Genius!!!

After praising the answers, Emperor Wu turned to Grand Secretary Fang. "I can tell how prudent and tenacious this kid is. I deliberately chose an uncommon extract from an annotation, but this kid still got it right."

Grand Secretary Fang nodded inwardly. Xiao Wu was as hardworking as she was pretty. He had never met anyone more industrious.

Emperor Wu moved on to section three.

The multiple choice questions.

"Wait a minute!"

Emperor Wu cried out in surprise. "Candidates lose marks in this section all the time. They pick the wrong option, they don't pick all the correct options, or they leave one correct option out. But this kid!!!"

Emperor Wu looked at Grand Secretary Fang in amazement. "This kid got everything right!"

Despite so many candidates taking the exam every year, Emperor Wu didn't think he had met many people who got full marks on the first three sections.