Empress Tantai Zijun had recently been poring over Imperial Historical Records, hoping to find some clues and see whether those secret histories that had been "passed down orally" had been preserved elsewhere.
Even if there were no electronic versions, paper copies, parchment copies, or even stone tablet versions would do!
After searching everywhere, she found no other versions, but she did come across records concerning That Suddenly Missing Emperor from one thousand years ago.
This incident was also recorded in Beichen Empire history books, because it had been the main trigger behind the Beichen Empire's fragmentation.
Empress Tantai Zijun had known about it before, but she had never given it much thought. Now that she herself was Emperor, however, this historical fact became rather interesting.
She specifically went to ask High Priest Su Yanxing. According to the High Priest's historical records, before that Emperor suddenly vanished, he had summoned the Crown Prince of the time to his side and instructed him for a full one week.
No one had known why at the time, but the High Priest's records stated that the Emperor had been "passing down orally" the unwritable secret histories of the Tan Tai Royal Family to that Crown Prince.
Therefore, the Tan Tai Royal Family's "secret histories" had not been cut off simply because that Emperor had suddenly disappeared.
But in her case, the Late Emperor Tantai Hongyuan had actually been assassinated!
This had never happened in the Tan Tai Royal Family's ten thousand years of history in the Beichen Empire!
Before his death, nearly all the Empire's princes and princesses had also died. None of the obvious Heirs to the Throne remained, so when the Emperor suddenly died as well, those secret histories passed down orally were naturally cut off.
Honestly, lasting ten thousand years before