The emperor with no heirs

"Yet somehow, this heir of the Jun Family learned of it."

"He had never been able to find a way into the Imperial Tomb. Now, however, he could slip inside safely wearing Han Sushu's skin."

In the flash of a spark, Li Shun had already pieced together most of what had happened.

"Burning Tomb..."

"This would be a calamity that reached the heavens. It wasn't like someone breaking into the tomb, an offense that could be treated as major or minor."

"If Imperial Tomb Commandery really were put to the torch, never mind the millions of living beings inside the Imperial Tomb, plenty of those illustrious lords at court would lose their heads too."

"[Fang Xun] is now the warden of East Mountain Town, and I belong to a tomb-keeping clan. If it really happens, none of us will escape."

After some thought, Li Shun had made his decision.

In East Mountain Town, [Fang Xun] was already writing furiously with a grave expression, sending Dong Chunqiu a secret report that someone from the Jun Family had infiltrated the Imperial Tomb.

Meanwhile, in the imperial palace's secret chamber, Li Shun kept trying to strike up a conversation with Jiang Chongguang.

"Little brother, what were your parents' names?"

"I heard both your parents died, and your uncle raised you?"

"Ah, it must have been hard. Having to live on the run from such a young age..." Li Shun said with feigned sympathy.

At first, Jiang Chongguang paid him no heed at all. "What? Trying to pry information out of me so you can make that Heavenly Man Book of yours more convincing?"

But Li Shun gradually dispelled Jiang Chongguang's suspicions with a single remark: "What are you talking about? You already know I have the Heavenly Man Book at my disposal. Could