Who Is Emperor, When All Follow the Junior Guardian's Lead!

[You gazed at the rising morning sun.]

[As dawn first bloomed, ten thousand zhang of golden light gently caressed all things beneath the heavens.]

[Feng Haiping led his party steadily into the towering, solemn main hall—the Hall of Supreme Harmony!]

["Greetings, Junior Guardian!"]

["The troops and horses have finished resting and are fully prepared. At your command, we can depart at once."]

[You nodded faintly.]

[This journey to Kyoto had an uncertain return date. When I set foot here again, it might already be another spring and autumn.]

[The spring scenery of Morning Mausoleum was peerlessly beautiful. When Father had passed the imperial examinations, he had once said, "In one day, I shall behold all the flowers of Morning Mausoleum."]

[Yet I came at the wrong season!]

[You shook your head. Once the dust settled, you would retire into the mountains and forests and devote yourself to cultivation.]

[Your gaze swept across the hall. Feng Haiping and the other generals stood ready in full battle formation, silently awaiting your command.]

[Zhou Cheng, Liu Wen, and Dou Gu all had eyes filled with reverence for you.]

[Feng Haiping was also puzzled. Liu Wen, Li Xuedian, and the other children of noble clans were looking at the Junior Guardian today with an unprecedented fire blazing in their eyes.]

[People like Liu Wen and Li Xuedian had been steeped in books since childhood. A scholar's aloofness and proud backbone had long fused into their very bones.]

[What had happened last night?]

[Feng Haiping did not think much of it.]

[They had never set foot in the army. Their understanding of the Junior Guardian's wisdom and courage perhaps went no further than the shallow view of a frog at the bottom of a well.]

[Without personally living through years of beacon fires stretching to