Chapter Thirty-Seven

The heavy bell of Dongxu Mansion rang, and the sound of clear, echoing reading in the study rooms continued endlessly. Bearded Doctor walked into the lecture hall with dossiers in his arms, stepping with scholarly grace. He carefully placed the dossiers on the desk, stroked his beard, and gave a light cough, plunging the study room into instant silence. As soon as the academy students saw that the doctor had arrived, they all stood up from their low desks to bow.

Waving his hand, the doctor signaled all the academy students to sit down. He stroked the dossiers on the desk as if they were precious treasures, then suddenly broke into old tears, his voice trembling continuously. "You are truly fortunate people, blessed people indeed! Look at these, look at these, do you know what these are!"

"Doctor, aren't they just dossiers?"

"Ah, it looks like the homework we handed in the day before yesterday. Weren't they supposed to be sent to the imperial palace to wait for His Majesty to have time to review them?"

"That's right!" The doctor slammed the desk excitedly, pressing down with his hands. "These are the homework assignments you submitted to the Emperor. In just one day, in just a single day, they received the Emperor's review! This is simply unheard of! Unbelievable! A world-shaking spectacle!"

"Eh? His Majesty actually spared the time to review our homework in advance?"

"That's right, I heard that the homework submitted by the upper-realm academy students still hasn't finished being reviewed."

"Didn't they say His Majesty wasn't in the palace these past few days, and only just returned the day before yesterday? He just returned to the palace and reviewed our homework overnight? Doesn't that mean there must be someone among us he values?"

"That's great! If we