บท 185: Matters of the Past

Countless flowers dropped from the sky onto the carriage. Chen Changsheng drew back his gaze, removed the petals from his clothes and then nodded to the surrounding crowd, thanking them for their generosity and enthusiasm.

Deep within the Imperial Palace was an abandoned garden where flowers were also falling. The cold-resistant plum trees were blown about by the wind, sending tiny pink flowers cascading to the ground, forming a shallow layer on the edge of the pond and producing a beautiful scene.

The Pope and the Divine Empress stood amongst the falling plum blossoms, gazing at the Black Dragon Pond before them.

"The day before yesterday, when he was in the Education Palace participating in the Grand Examination, I think he had entered the top sixteen? At the time, I had said that he would go just up to there…but I didn't expect that this child would actually not stop."