For a moment, the whole world was shaken.
Countless people watching the live broadcast through various channels were stunned.
An apology!
Disband the guard!
Return the cultural relics!
Burn the memorial tablets of war criminals!
Pay one trillion U.S. Dollars in compensation!
Every demand in the Edict of Self-Accusation landed like a nuclear bomb, unleashing an unprecedented storm of public opinion across the world.
Networks in countless countries crashed at the same time.
It was not a cyberattack. Too many people were watching the broadcast at once.
The surge in traffic overwhelmed the servers and caused a physical shutdown.
The phones at major news outlets rang off the hook.
Everyone wanted to know whether it was real or some farce staged by the Dragon Kingdom on a historic scale!
But when they saw the Japanese Emperor in the broadcast, kneeling in the snow, covered in blood and seemingly mad—yet unmistakably the real man—all doubts vanished.
It was real!
That young man from the Dragon Kingdom, Yue Xiaofei, had single-handedly forced the entire imperial family of Eastern Japan to bow its head.
He had made their "god" read what might have been the most humiliating edict in history before the whole world!
Madness!
The world had gone completely mad!
Inside the Dragon Kingdom, however, the scene was entirely different.
After a brief silence, cheers erupted into the sky!
"That's how you do it!"
"Hell yeah!"
"Long live our country!!!"
In residential complexes everywhere, people rushed onto their balconies, waved anything red they could find, and shouted at the top of their lungs.
Nearly a century of humiliation and resentment pent up in their hearts poured out at last!
Firecrackers sounded across the major cities, one after another, as though the Spring Festival had come again.
No one knew who started it,