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Now, ask your conscience, and answer again for those people...

How many died building Danyan's Chidao this year? Was it a hundred... or three thousand?

(Mutters irritably)

The Minister of Works just stormed off in a huff... is it because of Danyan?

Is this why you have come, sister?

I can't imagine how they managed to convince you to lobby on their behalf... am I actually dreaming, while the one in the Tomb of Sui has awakened?

Are you so sarcastic to everyone these days?

I came to tell you that the Sui Regulator and the Ministry of Justice have approved your request to clear the Yaan Elves' name.

I...

I'm sorry. I was in a bad mood.

Apologies accepted.

That's the first good news I've heard in days. It will make Chun less gloomy, I hope.

It's not good to be fighting with the Sui Regulator, but I doubt they would be happy to see you get too friendly with your Candleholder.

I understand. But she's really taken to her work, helping me compile the histories... she clearly likes it.

I have a feeling... she didn't become a Candleholder because she wanted to, but because she was alone and didn't have a choice but to take the hand that was offered.

Well, a wrong has been righted. That's always a good thing.

Of course, I think part of their intention is to get you to compromise on changing the documents.

I simply came to discuss matters, because this matter has gotten to the three Grand Ministers and the True Lung. I'm not lobbying on anybody's behalf.

Just treat it as the guy in the Tomb of Sui throwing a tantrum.

You're the only one in the family who jokes about this.

Ling has honeyed words, and you speak with heaven's authority. I'll settle for the frivolous tongue, then.

It's true that the officials of the court are facing a dilemma in this matter.

The figure of three thousand will cast a shadow upon the nomadic city project, and the implications it may have for Yan are unknown.

Did you tolerate the falsification of records while you were still administering justice?

Falsifying records is a crime, of course. However, if the perpetrator did not do it out of selfish interest, I will consider extenuating circumstances when determining the punishment.

I'm surprised to hear that.

We each have our own specializations. I don't work in history, and you don't work in law.

Perhaps that is how matters of law work... but not in history.

I wanted to study history and language because I wanted to learn what the human mind is truly like.

The answer to my questions may lie in the intention behind words, and the truth behind history...

Not for Yan, nor for the land, not even for our family... only for my own questions—

Jie! Jie!

Chun? What are you doing here? I wasn't ready to tell you—

Tell me what?

Never mind... what's the hurry?

I went to the study to get the drafts as you asked, but I discovered signs of an intrusion!

The writing knife on the desk is gone!