Sitting in the carriage, Yu Xiaolian could hear the people on the street discussing her upcoming competition with Ma Xiyue.
Who would've thought the news traveled so fast!
As for the arts of piano, chess, calligraphy, and painting, Yu Xiaolian wasn't really afraid. She had started these hobby classes back in elementary school. Even though she might be a bit rusty now, she could lose one round as long as she won two.
Having spent a lot of time at the academy, she knew that the academic competitions there usually involved a few projects—either couplets, poems, or chess games.
She could handle all of these; she even learned folk dance. The only things she feared were the archery game and incense mixing, neither of which she had learned.
Incense mixing wouldn't be a problem; worst case, she'd sneak in some fragrance agents and cheat.
But she had never tried the archery game, and it was quite common in competitions between women.
