Nothing happened that night.
Dawn had only just begun to break.
Gray, overcast clouds pressed down over Shu Prefecture City.
The misty cloud cover hid the rising sun, like an extension of the night unwilling to let people rise in the morning.
Yet the Night Watchman still called out on schedule.
Drums also sounded from atop the city gate tower.
At such times, bells from the temple in the northwest corner, the academy in the north, and outside Yanhuaxiang in the south of the city would ring in response.
Bells and drums rang in unison. A new day had arrived.
Naturally, Chen Yi would not wait until then to get out of bed.
More precisely, he had been rising early these past few days, washing up and dressing before heading to the study room.
Of course, he was not going there to practice calligraphy, nor was he painting a few pictures.
He was reading.
That was right.
Chen Yi had already spent several days preparing for the annual examination at the end of the month.
Aside from the history and geography books he had read during his confinement, he was now reading more classics of scripture and history.
Although the Great Wei Dynasty did not have the Four Books and Five Classics, it possessed similar works.
Such as Mathematical Arts, River Book, Qian Commentary, Sayings of the Four Sages, and so on.
They encompassed astronomy, geography, divination, the Medical Dao, and Confucian learning, and were required reading for every scholar.
Chen Yi had originally possessed relevant memories, though they were rather vague.
Yet each time he leafed through them, the corresponding content surfaced in his mind.
Most of it was the original owner's understanding.
However, most of those understandings were flawed.
At least in Chen Yi's eyes, having entered the