Mu Qingmei led Huyan Siluo out of the prison and into the bright, pleasant world outside. The two Patrol Guards standing at the entrance saluted and said, "Ocean-Gazing Palace, sorry for the trouble."
"You've worked hard too." Huyan Siluo hurriedly returned the salute. Along the way, every Patrol Guard they encountered saluted in turn. The guards who had been waiting for a long time quickly escorted Huyan Siluo away from the Patrol and Punishment Department.
There were guards clearing the way and bringing up the rear, making it look exactly like the procession of some great personage.
In fact, Huyan Siluo was now the nominal Joint Ruler of East Sun District, the East Sun governor known as "Ocean-Gazing Palace."
After White Night and the workers liberated Profound Candle Prefecture, the first problem they faced was not rebuilding the Inner City, judging the Silver Blood nobles, or even taking over East Sun District. It was—whether they should rebel.
That was right. On the question of whether to rebel, Profound Candle White Night actually could not make up its mind!
It was not that they were unwilling to rebel. The workers were unwilling, and the common people were unwilling too!
They opposed the prefect, the governor, and the Silver Blood Society, but they had never intended to oppose the Radiant Court!
After all, it was truly difficult to make a group of people who had grown up listening to "The Six Kings perished, and the four seas became one. Radiance rose, and Emperor Gaozu emerged. In the 2,085th year of its inheritance, it swept across the ages"—the numbers were updated every year in primary school lessons—rebel against the Radiant Court. If ordinary people wanted to know what year it was, they only had to go to the lecture square in the morning