Side Story – Dương Hoa Lạc Tần Tử Quy Đề

About this story

My name is Lục Văn Quân. Ever since I passed the xiucai exam at twelve, the way my parents and the entire household looked at me changed. During the New Year, when we performed ancestral rites at the family shrine, my grandfather held my hand and stood before the ancestral tablets, tears streaming down his aged face. "Ancestors above, the Lục family finally has hope for revival, we have hope." I stood there silently, gazing up at the ancestral tablets in the shrine. In the second row, right in the center, was a tablet made of nam mộc wood inlaid with gold—that was the Lục family ancestor, Lục Quán Thư, who once held the position of Chancellor, and was also my great-great-grandfather.