A piece of Japanese incense

Zhi Yihe was born in a country called "Dongli".

Twenty years ago, this country was the weakest among several countries. The current emperor was a hostage in the most powerful "Xiqi" at that time, and half of the territory was ceded to other countries by the old emperor.

It was not until the current emperor returned to the country, stabilized the border, recovered lost territory, disciplined officials, stabilized the political situation, improved people's livelihood, and finally defeated the Western Qi Kingdom and unified the country that the people finally lived a peaceful and prosperous life without war.

It is now the sixteenth year of Zhaoding.

Seventeen years ago, Zhi Yihe's grandfather Yun Jingmo brought home a child. This boy was Zhi Yian, Zhi Yihe's father.

Zhi Yian and Yun He grew up together and shared every bit of life with each other. Their hearts have long been intertwined, and they have become the most important part of each other's life.

When Yunhe was fifteen years old, the two got married under the arrangement of Yunjingmo, and two years later, they gave birth to Zhiyihe.

The birth of Yihe made Zhi Yian work harder. He studied hard for his family to have a good life. He worked hard and made continuous efforts. Every day he spent his time reading and writing. He finally entered the ranks of scholars and became the highly regarded No. 1 scholar.

When everything was going well, the emperor's decree broke all the peace. The emperor insisted on granting the marriage, and asked Zhi Yian to marry his only daughter, and even threatened the lives of Yunhe's family. Zhi Yian was forced to marry the princess, and he betrayed his oath with Yunhe and violated the most sincere feelings in his heart.

The current emperor has only three children.

The mother of the eldest prince, Prince Yun Yuanren, was the youngest princess of the Xiqi Kingdom. She was married to His Majesty in the form of a marriage alliance. After the fall of the kingdom, everyone thought that Concubine Xin would fall out of favor, but unexpectedly, the emperor's favor increased instead of decreasing. The people all said that Concubine Xin was the emperor's favorite woman.

The Crown Prince Yuancheng and Princess Ruilin were born to the current Queen. Queen Yingyi's brother Yan Ye'an was a general. It was with the support of the Yan family that Your Majesty was able to be invincible and unify the country. The Queen fought against the enemy together with Your Majesty, and she was as brave as a man.

As the emperor's only daughter, he loved her very much. Even when the princess was 20 years old, the emperor still wanted to keep her by his side and didn't want her to marry. People said that it was because of the princess's birth that the emperor couldn't bear to see her marrying a foreign prince in the future, so he fought bloody battles, expanded territory, and created a peaceful and prosperous era.

Common people said that the number one scholar must be a man of extraordinary appearance, talent and elegance, otherwise the emperor would not have forced the marriage between him and the princess despite the fact that he already had a wife and daughter.

Yun He had never met the princess, who was a royal concubine. Zhi Yi An had lived in Yun's mansion before, and moved into the princess's mansion after marrying the princess. The princess had never summoned her or troubled her. She had sent a visiting card, but was always turned away.

Zhi Yian always submitted a petition to allow He to be his equal wife, but the emperor refused because he did not want his daughter to suffer any injustice. Zhi Yian then went back and forth between the two palaces. Three years passed like this...

In the second year of his marriage to the princess, the princess gave birth to a boy prematurely. The emperor was overjoyed and named him Siqi. However, Yihe had never seen this brother. He said that he had been ill since his mother's womb. Whenever the wind blew, he would have a fever for several days and had to take medicine all year round to keep his life. The emperor ordered the princess to move back to the palace and take care of the child with the empress.

My consciousness gradually became blurred, like a broken mirror, the reflected image was no longer clear...

It was difficult to concentrate, she felt her mind becoming fragmented and unable to think clearly…

"Dinglingling～dingdingling..."

The alarm clock rang suddenly, tearing the quiet morning apart. Nan Yin sat up suddenly from the bed, her heartbeat still not calming down, her forehead wet with sweat.

Looking at the familiar desk and Chibi Maruko-chan's bed sheets and pillows, Nan Yin twisted her neck, touched her hands and feet, took a deep breath, and tried to pull herself out of the dream: "Oh! It turns out that it was... a dream... This... is too real..."

Her eyes were still half-drowsy, but her consciousness gradually became clearer... Help! Today was the final battle of her long high school years - the first day of the college entrance examination! She couldn't help but feel a complex emotion: nervousness, anxiety, and anticipation. All the emotions intertwined in her heart, like a group of dragons playing in the water, unpredictable. She sat up, took a deep breath, and tried to calm herself down.

Nanyin has had an advantage since she was a child. She has an amazing advantage - a strong memory. Whether it is a book, a picture or a daily trivia, as long as she has come into contact with it once, she can remember it accurately in her mind.

While other children were still struggling to recite the five-character quatrain word by word, Nanyin could recite the whole poem fluently with just a quick glance. Her eyes sparkled with intelligence, as if those words had been deeply engraved in her heart.

Nanyin's memory is not limited to book knowledge, she never misses any details in life. She can clearly remember her family's birthdays, friends' preferences, and even a small flower or a butterfly on the roadside. This talent allows her to always grasp the emotional changes of others when getting along with them, and give the most intimate care and comfort.

She can quickly and accurately remember stories she has heard, pictures she has seen, and even places far away from her. Her brain is like a sophisticated recorder, recording everything she has seen and heard clearly.

But! She has a fatal flaw, which is short-term memory... Well, how should I put it, it's as if she doesn't have a "storage function". She once forced herself to overload her memory, and the result was that she would have nosebleeds and foam at the mouth at the least, or fall into a coma for several hours or days, and have temporary amnesia when she woke up.

It was as if her brain had only a limited amount of space to hold a certain amount of information, like a crowded room where new furniture and decorations kept pouring in while the old stuff was forced into a corner or simply forgotten.

This defect of hers brought her endless troubles. Every time she learned something new, she would find herself forgetting the old knowledge. Today, she might have just mastered the word "teacher", but by tomorrow, she might have forgotten the word "student" from the day before yesterday. This dilemma of not being able to integrate new knowledge with old knowledge made her difficult on the road of learning.

She had seen a doctor before, hoping to find a cure. But the doctor simply told her that this was a common phenomenon in the human brain and that everyone had their own memory bottleneck. The doctor suggested that she learn in batches, focusing on only one task or one knowledge point at a time, and gradually expanding her memory space.

Therefore, after countless large-scale simulations and small-scale tests, she also mastered a method, which was to memorize the amount of knowledge that others learned in a semester overnight before the test, and then pass the test. But after the test, what she memorized that night was gone and could not be truly applied in the long term.

Nanyin’s goal is to be admitted to a university that is two subway stops away from her home, so that she can go home to be with her grandmother after classes every day.

Nan Yin spent the entire night yesterday memorizing and taking notes for the college entrance exam. She didn’t even remember when she went to bed. She also had a very long and strange dream. She felt extremely tired... and her head was confused...