Unrestrained Anger

The next day, Long Bing went to deal with the information she’d been given and Xia Lei went touring around Jing-Du with Xia Xue like he’d wanted. The siblings first went to the Great Wall and then to the Forbidden City in the afternoon.

“Big Brother, that’s the emperor’s throne. Imposing, isn’t it?” Xia Xue pointed to the throne in the Palace of Heavenly Purity.

Xia Lei looked at the throne and laughed, “It’s just a wooden chair. Not as comfortable as a sofa.”

“That’s the symbol of the emperor’s power! Over 600 years of Ming and Qing dynasties, countless people have lost their heads and bled rivers, all to sit in this chair!” Xia Xue looked like she was about to give Xia Lei a history lecture.

Strangely, Xia Lei suddenly thought of the compass he had repaired.

That compass was an artefact from the time of Yongle, a product of the same time period as the Forbidden City.

‘The Forbidden City was built by Zhu Di, emperor of the Ming dynasty. The compass was also engraved with Yongle’s words. Based on the technology and production capabilities of that time, it had to take someone with the power of the emperor’s rank to complete such a miraculous...