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Chapter 680 The Talented Woman's Distress

Cai Yan, whose courtesy name was Zhaoji, was the daughter of Cai Yong, a great Confucian scholar of his time.

She was extremely intelligent since childhood, knowledgeable and talented, proficient in music, chess, calligraphy and painting, and was known as a "talented woman". Later, in the Jin Dynasty, she changed her name to Wenji to avoid the name of Sima Zhao.

Cao Cao was appreciated by Qiao Xuan in his early years, and through Qiao Xuan he got to know Cai Yong. The three of them became friends regardless of their age difference. At that time, Cao Cao had the honor of seeing the beauty of this talented woman from the Cai family. He was shocked by her beauty and admired her very much.

As Cai Yan grew up, her appearance and talent became more and more remarkable, and almost everyone in the literati circle knew her name.

Logically speaking, such a talented lady from a noble family should have been approached by many men for marriage and started a life of taking care of her husband and children long ago.

However, Cai Yan's fate was quite bumpy.

In his early years, his father Cai Yong offended the powerful officials in the court because of his outspokenness and courage to criticize, and was demoted to the border county of Shuofang. After many twists and turns, he took refuge in the south of the Yangtze River for another twelve years.

As Cai Yong's daughter, Cai Yan was naturally displaced and experienced hardships in her childhood. This experience gave her a deeper understanding of the fickleness of the world.

Later, although Cai Yong was rehabilitated, Cai Yan's life did not become peaceful.

The reason is very simple. The person who rehabilitated and promoted Cai Yong was actually the traitor Dong Zhuo who was despised by the whole world!
Although Dong Zhuo was cruel and ruthless, he was quite appreciative of Cai Yong. He not only recalled Cai Yong to the court and made him his own chief priest and confidant, but he even promoted him to a higher position and made him a Censor, paving the way for Cai Yong's advancement.

Cai Yong, who felt that his talent was not recognized, was deeply moved by his kindness.

However, Dong Zhuo had a widespread notoriety, and while Cai Yong's career was successful, he was also accompanied by many bad reputations such as flattery.

These bad reviews hung over Cai Yong and Cai Yan like a dark cloud, making their lives full of stress and trouble.

It would have been fine if it happened in the original history when Dong Zhuo dominated the world and his prestige was rising.

Cai Yong will gradually gain a foothold in the court, climb into the center of power step by step, and then marry into the Wei family of Hedong. Cai Yan will also meet her first husband in her life.

Yes, the first one.

Cai Wenji’s married life did not last long, as her evil husband died prematurely.

Cai Wenji, who was widowed at home, was abducted by the Huns during the chaos in the Central Plains. She lived as a slave with Zuo Xian Wang for twelve years and gave birth to two sons before she was redeemed by Cao Cao with a large sum of money and married to Dong Si.

However, Cai Wenji, who thought she had escaped from the sea of ​​suffering, did not know that she had fallen into a pit of fire again.

Dong Si was not a good man. Not only did he look down on him because of her loss to the Xiongnu, but he also committed a serious crime and was sentenced to death.

Finally, Cai Wenji, who was already very old, "walked barefoot with disheveled hair, kowtowed and pleaded guilty, with a clear and eloquent voice and a very sad tone" begging Cao Cao to spare Dong Si's life, and only then was Dong Si spared from death, leaving herself with the last bit of shelter.
It is truly a pity that such a talented woman, who was famous all over the world, ended up like this.

However, with Su Yao's arrival, everything naturally changed.

The first is the fate of Dong Zhuo.

Thanks to Su Yao's intervention, Dong Zhuo escaped from Luoyang a year earlier.

His power came quickly, but it also fell quickly.

He himself did not have time to promote himself to the rank of Grand Tutor, and Cai Yong's official career currently stopped at the rank of Zhishu Shiyushi, with an official salary of 600 dan.

Dong Zhuo's decline was obvious, and Cai Yong, as Dong Zhuo's close confidant, was naturally not favored by the public. His marriage with the Wei family of Hedong was therefore out of the question.

Even though the daughter of the Cai family was extremely beautiful and famous in the capital, no one from those cunning aristocratic families was willing to take the risk of marrying into the Cai family at this time.

The noble families did not dare to pick the thorny rose, and those who dared to propose marriage were all unknown and powerless opportunists who only wanted to curry favor with Dong Zhuo by relying on the relationship with the Cai family.

Cai Yong naturally sneered at these people, and Cai Yan was unwilling to even meet them.

As a result, Cai Yan's marriage was stuck. The woman that Cai Yong admired ignored her.

However, those who were willing to propose marriage were all looked down upon by Cai Yong.

To be honest, even so, Cai Yong was not discouraged.

He believed that all difficulties were temporary, and that Mr. Dong had the ability to judge people. As long as he could correct his stubborn and self-righteous shortcomings, fill the court with upright people, and accept good advice, he would be able to revive the government and clear the world!

By then, the Cai family’s predicament will be resolved.

Those who now look down on themselves and are busy distancing themselves from the matter will naturally come back wagging their tails.

The marriage of his beloved daughter Cai Yan will also have a happy ending.

However, in the end, Cai Yong was hit hard by the cruel reality.

Dong Zhuo's escape was so sudden that Cai Yong was completely unaware and was taken away during court. He did not even have time to take his daughter with him!

Although Cai Yan immediately packed her bags and wanted to go to Chang'an to follow her father after discovering something was wrong, the series of changes in Luoyang City made her, like many other children of aristocratic families, trapped in the capital.

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After finally waiting for the chaos in Luoyang to come to an end and the city to be unsealed, Su Yao announced that he would be heading on a western expedition in the near future.

In the midst of chaos and war, Cai Yan, a girl, dared not risk going out. She had to stay indoors and ordered her servants to search day and night.

This inquiry frightened Cai Yan.

As the saying goes, the same thing can be interpreted completely differently by different people.

Unlike many people who applauded, praised Su Yao's heroic deeds and had high expectations for him.

What Cai Yan saw was that in recent days, Su Yao had been causing trouble in the city. The former wealthy families had fallen one after another, and countless young men and nobles were put in shackles, or were sentenced to death, or demoted to the army. The great capital was in a state of panic and misery.

Among them were many acquaintances that Cai Yan knew, which made her feel frightened.

Looking at the women and servants who were implicated, Cai Yan felt the same pain as the remnants of Dong's gang, and she cried every day at home, feeling sorry for herself.

Those noble families who were not firmly attached to the traitor Dong all suffered such a fate. Since his father was a close confidant of the traitor Dong, one can imagine his fate.

So much so that when the servant came to report that someone was coming from the Marquis of Guanjun's mansion, Cai Yan had already prepared for the worst.

She was very nervous, thinking that Su Yao's messenger was here to announce her punishment or to take her away and imprison her.

However, the result was far beyond her expectations!
The messenger did not bring bad news, but an unexpected invitation.

Luoyang City, Cai Mansion.

After hearing the invitation brought by Wang Ling, Cai Yan raised her hand to cover her mouth and nose, her beautiful eyes full of shock.

Cai Yan never expected that this Marquis Guanjun, who was known by the world as "tyrannical and capricious", would do such a shocking thing.

Not only don't they arrest her, but they want to use her instead?
Although Cai Yan had never heard of the term "principal", she understood the meaning of the term "principal of a girls' school" just by reading the name.

Therefore, she became even more confused.

"Why an all-girls school, and why me??"

(End of this chapter)