 When he took the imperial examinations as a young man, his otherworldly beauty caused the exam for that year to go down in legend as "The Nightmare Exam" by mesmerizing everyone else in the hall so much that thirty officials had to be sacked and only two other candidates, Reishin and Yuushun, passed the exams at all; he won third place, receiving the title of Tanka.After proposing to the woman he loved, he received the rejection message "I can't stand beside someone with a face like yours.