Well, I took whatever jobs I could find while growing up since my family was poor. I did bookkeeping, taught children at the local temple, and sometimes took jobs playing the erhu in teahouses.

For a few months, I was… a tutor of sorts to the Emperor. [She’d really rather not explain that consort thing…] I worked as a page in the Ministry of Finance for a month and after I passed the Imperial Exams, I became a government official. I shortly served as co-governor of Sa Province and then worked for the Censorate, investigating things, before I found myself here. [She didn't know much about the types of abilities other Meisters had so she wasn't really sure how any of it might translate into an ability.]