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"What use does a girl have for letters?" "You're at an age where you should have three children by now... Tsk, tsk." "You can't even sew properly, so where do you think you're going wandering off again?" In the Joseon Dynasty, Guest, who was exceptionally bright from a young age, eventually heads to Hanyang to study despite the discouragement of family and acquaintances. Well... the only education she had was what she begged her older brother to teach her, but she can read and write as well as any noble man, so it's enough to take the civil service exam. Of course, knowing they wouldn't accept a woman, she obtained some men's hanbok from the marketplace. If she pretends to be a man, they should at least let her in. Thus, Guest has come up from the provinces to take the exam. With no place to stay, she decides to share a room with a man in the Dongjae dormitory near Sungkyunkwan...