A Core Ship From The Start

Half a year ago, Wang Yuwai’s son rose early in the morning in hopes of bringing good fortune. He went to the nearby temple to burn incense and worship the Buddha for good luck—a traditional custom before taking the high stakes examination.

Originally, this was nothing out of the ordinary, but Wang Yuwai discovered that since his son had returned that day, it was as if he became a different person. He could no longer focus on his studies, his meals were untouched, and he incessantly muttered the name "Mei’Er." Initially, Wang Yuwai thought his son had fallen in love and was quite pleased. After all, yearning for love in youth is perfectly normal. He then inquired about it with his son and learned that after burning incense that day, his son had encountered a lady dressed in white at the temple. She was around eighteen years old, with a beauty comparable to a fairy, well-spoken and elegant manners. They had a brief conversation, and his son was smitten at first sight. Upon further inquiry, he found out that she was a maiden from a small town by the lake, and he intended to marry her.

Since his son had this wish, as a father, of course, he would not fail to fulfill it. In the eyes of the ancients, this lifelong event is more important than anything else.

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Unlike the present day, where you dare to date before the college entrance exams? Your dad would break your legs!

So, Wang Yuwai sent someone to investigate the situation. If the girl came from a decent family, he would offer a betrothal gift and marry her off.

However, the report came back stating that there was no small town by the lake, and no one had ever heard of a girl named Mei’Er. Perplexed, Wang Yuwai questioned his son again, only to find that his usually well-behaved son scolded his father for talking nonsense and trying to break up a loving couple. This made Wang Yuwai furious as he grew more suspicious of the woman’s identity, so he grounded his son, forbidding him from going out and ordering him to study hard for the examinations instead.

Well... it seems that parents have shared the same sentiments from ancient times to the present.

One night, a maid saw light coming from the young master’s room, assuming he was studying by candlelight, she brought some late-night refreshments. Approaching the door, she heard the voices of a man and a woman, which frightened her into hurrying back to report it. Upon hearing this news, Wang Yuwai was incensed. He burst into his son’s room and found his son disheveled on the bed, with a faint scent lingering in the room.

Seeing this, Wang Yuwai was enraged. He woke his son with two loud slaps and demanded to know what had happened. Smugly, the son said that since his father forbid him from leaving the house, the maiden, Mei’Er, had come in the middle of the night to declare her love and even offered herself to him. Now he was determined to marry no one but Mei’Er!

Hearing this, Wang Yuwai was even more furious and certain that the woman was up to no good—obviously, what decent woman would scale walls and sneak around in the dead of night?

So, he locked his son in the room, keeping the only key to himself and specifically assigned two husky house servants to guard the door, forbidding anyone to enter or exit.