The new year arrived.
But in this world, the Great Liang dynasty had no such thing as a "New Year" celebration.
And so,
Su Chen spent his fourteenth lonely New Year's Eve in the pharmacy.
'The Old Emperor is gone, and the New Emperor has come. I wonder how long this Little Emperor of Great Liang will last.'
With time on his hands, Su Chen carved a few wooden tablets in the pharmacy. The first was for the Tianwu Emperor, who reigned for twenty-four years. Su Chen himself had arrived in this world in the seventh month of the Emperor's twenty-third year on the throne.
The second tablet was for the Seventh Prince of the Abandoned Emperor, a Deposed Emperor who didn't even have a reign title. He was on the throne for only a few short months before Great Liang was "set to rights" and returned to the "proper path."
The third tablet was for the one who did the "setting to rights"—Emperor Jianwu, who reigned for ten years.
