Enter the spring night and step into the game: forty-five days to win a heart—or claim one.

📖 Study for a Future of Your Own

Grow through study and experience: Learning · Bearing · Insight · Statecraft · Passion

Your abilities shape the actions available to you and the events you can discover.

You pore over books and hone yourself through real-world experience. Every step forward costs time and energy.

After forty-five days, will you be able to set out on the path to success you desire?

Amid spring nights, the scent of wine, lamplight, and political intrigue, these forty-five days will be yours alone.

Zhaoque is never short of stories—or women.

Qin Wanxiang | Where the lights shine brightest, she is watching you

Qin Wanxiang knows why people come: to hear the music, enjoy a drink, or simply catch a glimpse of the woman whose name is known throughout Zhaoque.

“Did you come to hear a song, or to see me?”

She can fill tonight’s tables—or choose to give you a little time that she sells to no one.

Ruan Lingyi | She never makes a losing deal

As the eldest daughter of a prosperous merchant family, she knows to calculate the true cost of a bargain before anyone else even names it.

“We can settle the accounts later, but settle them we must.”

Is she investing in your future, or weighing whether you are worth a long-term wager?

He Cailing | You have always called her “A-Ling”

She prepares your clothes, looks after your home, keeps track of your spending, and reminds you to rest when you study late into the night.

“If you truly don’t need me, young master… you should tell me so yourself.”

Some relationships began long before the first meeting.

Gu Cili | If she wrote the essay, why can’t her name be on it?

Gu Cili is well versed in literature and the classics, and knows exactly who the rules of Zhaoque are really written for.

“Do you want this essay—or do you want to know where it truly came from?”

A shortcut often just leaves someone else to pay the price.

📚 Self-Growth　💰 Resource Management　🔎 Clue Hunting　❤️ Multiple Heroines　🌙 Secret Nighttime Meetings　

■ A 45-Day Journey of Growth
Plan your mornings, evenings, and late nights. Choose how to spend your time on study, socializing, investigation, and appointments, while developing your learning, bearing, courage, self-restraint, passion, and state of mind.

■ Romance Across Many Paths
Attend banquets, spend time alone together, test boundaries, give in—or let a chance slip away. Every choice shapes affection, intimacy, character-specific stories, and hidden events. Each woman will answer your feelings in her own way.

■ Intrigue and Desire Beneath the Surface
Gather clues, solve mysteries, and read the hearts of others. Amid tender whispers, dangerous bargains, and emotions hard to distinguish from deception, uncover the secrets hidden in the depths of Zhaoque.

■ Every Step Closer Has a Cost
Your energy, money, and actions are limited. Whose invitation will you accept tonight? Whose words will you trust? For whom are you willing to stay? Each choice will shape what comes next.

Who will make you stop and stay this time?