Entering the Capital to Save the Throne-Now We Can Talk

As your words fell, the entire scene sank into a brief silence.

Zhou Jinyu softly repeated those words:

"I was but a commoner of Huainan. What did the realm have to do with me?"

Her heart was filled with confusion and shock, for she understood all too well what lay behind those words!

There were only three words—abandon the realm!

Zhou Jinyu, the Great Qing Empress, could not remember her husband Zhou Zhen's birthday, yet your birth date had somehow been branded deep into her heart.

She was even more familiar with this Junior Guardian's life!

You were from Huainan County in the Northern Region, born in late spring of the first year of Yongxiang!

Commoner referred to one dressed in plain cloth, and later became a term for ordinary civilians.

Could your family be considered commoners? In the county town, you had been a powerful and wealthy clan. It was only later that you scattered your family fortune, and while still young, your mother arranged a childhood betrothal for you.

Later, you studied under the three teachings. At twenty-one, in an act of pure filial devotion, you went to Hulao Pass to save your father.

From then on, your name shook the realm!

Huainan County had also become famous throughout the realm because of your birth. Those surnamed Lu were now subconsciously regarded across the land as people who knew how to "march armies and wage war."

Yet you resigned and returned home to cultivate the Dao on Mount Zhongnan. Without official rank or title, calling yourself a commoner was not excessive; it could be considered a form of modesty.

To rise from a mere commoner to the lofty Son of Heaven—what glory was that?

You would not take the realm?

Zhou Jinyu could not believe that you would