Summary Soon-shin's family has moved to Ahsan, and eight years have passed since Soon-shin and Sung-ryong promised to meet again at Sung-kyun Academy. There is a civil service exam being held in nearby Own-yang, but Soon-shin has put his dream aside to take care of his family. Byong-tek, the son of the local magistrate, comes to take the civil service exam in Own-yang after repeated failures in other cities, and he keeps bumping into Soon-shin in unpleasant circumstances. The magistrate and his assistant learn about Soon-shin's exceptional literary talents and proposition him to take the civil service exam in place of his son. Soon-shin's flat-out refusal infuriates the magistrate, and he and his assistant plot out a scheme.

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