--[Actually, the host accidentally triggered the short-term time travel condition, so you've temporarily traveled back to your original world for three hours. Seven minutes have already passed, and you'll travel back in two hours and 53 minutes.]
Duan Xuanyu breathed a sigh of relief.
I wish I could wear it back again, and see Su Mian again.
Su Mian breathed a sigh of relief.
It would be good if I could wear it back.
I wonder if he'll be able to bring himself back with him when he travels back...
Could it be that she's been drifting here all by herself?
Then she's really going to make a scene.
Since Su Mian couldn't do anything for the time being, she went to lie down on the dragon bed and rest for a while.
Duan Xuanyu first took out his phone, glanced at the time, and memorized it.
Then he sat on the edge of the bed, resting his chin on his hand in deep thought.
Three hours shouldn't be wasted.
Let's kill a few people now who might pose a threat to the country and its people.
Then we can travel back in time and check whether history has actually changed because of this.
He immediately got up and went to the bookshelf to look for things.
He quickly turned to a roster.
He returned to the dragon bed, picked up a pen, and began to carefully review the documents.
What is the master doing?
Su Mian curiously crouched down next to him and took a look.
The roster is filled with current high-ranking officials.
His gaze is now fixed on a major corrupt official.
Su Mian: "He's taking attendance at the King of Hell's roll call. Whoever's name is called goes down there."
The system was silent for a few seconds, then suddenly screamed: [Aaaaaah!]
Why are you so startled?
"His behavior is perfectly normal. Even if Qin Shi Huang traveled back in time, he would still kill Zhao Gao."
[But what if a severe the Butterfly Effect occurs? What if you travel back in time and everything is gone? Have humans evolved into a new species?]
Su Mian wasn't too worried.
"Actually, the Butterfly Effect is a term coined by meteorologists, initially used to study weather."
"More than 20 years ago, a time-travel movie called ' The Butterfly Effect ' was so popular that it influenced many people's views, leading everyone to believe that changing the past would definitely trigger the Butterfly Effect."
"But there are actually many related theories about time travel, such as the grandfather paradox, quantum suicide theory, information causality theory, and multiple spacetime theory... but none of them are as well-known as the Butterfly Effect."
"What I most want to believe is the principle of self-consistency proposed by the Soviet Union physicist Novikov."
"Spacetime automatically maintains the self-consistency of causality. If a disabled scientist travels through time to prevent the car accident that caused his disability, the car will continue to hit him at the next corner, and ultimately there will be no causal contradiction."
[Huh? So according to this theory, the young emperor can't escape his inevitable death no matter what?]
Su Mian's heart tightened. "No... no way."
"Then I won't believe in that anymore, I'll believe in that multiverse."
[Master, your convictions are so easily shaken.]
"I call this flexibility and adaptability."
Su Mian looked up at Duan Xuanyu, who was diligently writing in his Death Note.
When she received the mission, she knew that Duan Xuanyu would die young.
She had also researched several versions of the cause of Duan Xuanyu's early death.
Although both are related to political struggles, they are also, to a certain extent, inseparable from his personality.
Later, thanks to her timely intervention, she changed his personality.
He was nothing like the paranoid, sinister, and cruel person he used to be.
He was also a wise ruler in politics.
Does he deserve to live a good life?
Anyway, we'll be back in two and a half hours.
Whether history has changed or not, only time will tell.
But Su Mian was just lying there, feeling incredibly bored.
I can't sleep.
Sigh, it's really too difficult to get modern people to stay home for two hours straight without using their phones.
This is also one of the main reasons why she didn't want to be an empress in ancient times.
[Shocking! A time-traveling woman doesn't want to be an empress in ancient times, actually because she can't use a mobile phone!]
"It's only human nature."
Su Mian glanced at the cell phone in Duan Xuanyu's costume pocket.
I reached out to grab it, but my hand just slipped right through the phone.
[Try it with your mind, Master. Logically speaking, moving such a small item is possible even without physical form, just with your mind!]
Su Mian tried it using her mind.
The phone really did fall out of his pocket and onto the soft bed!
She used her mind to move the phone to the side and then turned it on.
He did have video websites on his phone, but he couldn't watch anything because there was no internet.
There are no novel reading apps, and no single-player games.
In the end, she could only open the photo album and flip through it randomly.
It turned out that his photo album was full of her photos, thousands of them.
Some were filmed on TV programs, and some are screenshots from the internet.
Su Mian looked at each sheet one by one.
This one looks good; I'll have him send it to her when I get back.
This one is just so-so.
Why are there still unflattering photos of her?! Go back and make him delete them!
Meanwhile, Duan Xuanyu was still diligently writing in his Death Note.
This is a super-corrupt official.
He formed cliques for personal gain, amassed wealth, and engaged in rampant money-power transactions, amassing a vast fortune for himself.
Later records indicate that his family fortune was equivalent to ten years of the Northern Liang Dynasty's national treasury revenue.
However, in his early years, for his own safety, he did indeed put his heart into developing water conservancy and converting mountainous areas into farmland, and did a lot of practical things.
Kill him; there's no replacement for now.
After hesitating for a moment, Duan Xuanyu circled the person's name and wrote "Thirty" next to it.
Kill him again in thirty years, and then ransack his house.
The national treasury will be abundant for another ten years.
Wow! That's a huge profit!
He flipped through the pages again.
My gaze lingered on the name of a cruel official.
The most notorious form of torture in this dynasty—the urn torture, which involved steaming a person in an earthenware jar—was invented by him.
He contributed partly to the reputation of being a tyrant.
However, his current implementation of harsh laws and severe punishments is also due to the unstable situation.
His torture methods were very effective in intimidating people.
In the Northern Liang of today, let alone rape, debauchery, and plunder.
Even if someone were to pull or harass a respectable woman in the street, they would be taken to the yamen and flogged.
Usually, only one or two lashes are given.
But the whip was specially made; one lash would tear the skin and leave a permanent scar.
When this man gets married, if he takes off his clothes, his wife will know that he has flirted with other women in the past, which will be a lifelong disgrace.
Therefore, the people of Northern Liang are now very clean and simple.
Doors are left unlocked at night, and lost items are not picked up on the road.
This also established his authority as the new emperor.
But two years later, this cruel official became arrogant, and his methods gradually escalated, becoming increasingly bloody.
If anyone in the court disobeyed him, he would find a pretext to convict them and cruelly extract confessions.
Perhaps he developed a mental disorder from studying torture every day.
Duan Xuanyu circled the person's name and wrote "five" after it.
Kill him five years later.
Turn the page to the next page.
This person will become a traitor who colludes with the enemy and betrays the country.
But because he is fluent in multiple languages, he is now an irreplaceable diplomat.
Next year will also be another highlight for him, namely opening up trade routes to the Western Regions.
Okay, kill him in two years.
After much deliberation, I finally came up with the last list.
He could kill him right now, and it wouldn't have much of an impact; it's just his second uncle.
This man rebelled and seized his throne.
Moreover, he has undertaken many beneficial projects for the people's livelihood, but he didn't finish them during his tenure... The rest is all credited to his second uncle.
They absolutely have to die.
Two hours left.
There should be enough time to strike my second uncle.
Suddenly, the heavy doors of the sleeping quarters were pushed open from the outside.
Someone walked in from outside.
Duan Xuanyu raised his eyes and swept over, his tone sharp and authoritative without being angry. "Stop."