The ugliest scholar in history: On the wedding night, my concubine hanged herself.

WangYangQuan, a native of Changshu, Jiangsu Province, was born in a scholarly family. Influenced by a good family since childhood, he studied hard and made rapid progress in his studies. After many imperial examinations, in the fifty-seventh year of Kangxi (17 18), WangYangQuan was finally admitted to the top of high school.

WangYangQuan was in his forties when he won the first prize. Although he is old and has a wife and children, the new first prize title is too big, and many boudoir girls like him very much. They offered to marry him as a concubine. It is estimated that these people have never seen the first prize, otherwise they would not have this idea.

According to Yuan Mei's Poems with the Garden in Qing Dynasty, there was a Miss Lu in Beijing at that time, who was beautiful in appearance and good in writing and ink. She usually likes ancient books, plays songs and writes lyrics, and admires talented people. "She thinks all the top scholars are beautiful teenagers." So, this Miss Lu volunteered, "willing to marry", and asked the matchmaker to say that she was willing to marry Wang Zhuangyuan as a concubine. As we all know, there was no free love in ancient times, and neither side knew each other when they got married.

With the help of the matchmaker, Miss Lu got her wish and married WangYangQuan. On the wedding night, after lifting the veil, Miss Lu met WangYangQuan for the first time, but she was disappointed. It turned out that WangYangQuan was "in his forties, with a pockmarked face and a long waist and abdomen", but he was a pockmarked-faced man of nearly half a century, tall and fat, which was far from the handsome and handsome romantic talent image in the mind of Lu, and he felt very sorry that he was "already depressed".

However, WangYangQuan knew nothing about it. He was very happy when he met the first prize in Wedding Candle, so he drank a lot of wine when entertaining guests. When he returned to his room, he vomited and made a mess of the wedding. Then he fell asleep in bed and left the bride hanging.

Miss Lu looked at drunken Wang Yingquan, and the more she looked, the uglier she felt. She regretted it and wanted to die. And she really died. "Lady Lu was already very weak, but she died before the fifth watch." She hanged herself in her new house in the middle of the night.

As soon as the news came out, it immediately became a hot topic in the streets. Someone who is good at something even wrote a couplet to ridicule: "The national color is too delicate to be a husband, but the top scholar is not A Lang."

As we all know, the ancient imperial examinations paid great attention to looks. Although WangYangQuan was ugly, he was able to win the first place in high school because of his talent, which covered up the shortcomings of poor looks. WangYangQuan also won the appreciation of Emperor Kangxi with his outstanding talent. First, he was appointed editor of the Hanlin Academy, in charge of national history. Soon after, he was promoted to be the illegitimate son of Zhan Shifu, and later he was appointed as the South Study Room and became a trusted minister around Emperor Kangxi.

Although WangYangQuan was highly appreciated by Emperor Kangxi and was promoted many times in just a few years, WangYangQuan could not have done it without being an official for several years. The reason is that WangYangQuan was too sharp-edged, offended the powerful and was impeached, and finally had to resign and return home. After returning to his hometown, because WangYangQuan was already famous, he concentrated on lectures and writing, but he was also very comfortable.