Bai Lun obediently lifted his head and silently recited the principles as he did so: when the Emperor asks you to lift your head, you can only lift your head, nothing else, and you must not gaze directly at the Emperor out of curiosity.
Otherwise, you could lose your head!!
With this mantra in mind, Bai Lun managed not to have the audacity to lock eyes with the Emperor, narrowly passing the first hurdle.
Yet upon seeing Bai Lun's face, the Emperor felt oddly puzzled. This boy was far inferior to Wen Ranchen in every way. How did Yi Fen take a fancy to him?
Could it be that after feasting on rich delicacies for too long, one occasionally craves a lighter taste?
Before summoning him to the palace, he had specifically investigated the identity of this Bai Lun.
Fatherless, motherless, without fame or family, a lone figure—a character indeed easy to discard after some casual play... No, no, no, what was he thinking!
He couldn't think of Yi Fen as a bad child!!
