The Holy Monarch was enraged to the extreme, and said coldly, "Are you trying to force me? Ha, do you really think all the scholars in the world care whether you live or die? The empire recognizes you, and so you are the top scholar, a model for all scholars; if the empire doesn't recognize you, you are nothing."
"Me? I was never anything to begin with. Actually... you are nothing either. When you die in the future, Emperor Tianwu won't even acknowledge a descendant like you. Oh, no, wait, you're going to be quite famous after all—after all, a ruler of a fallen state is remembered through the ages, hahaha..."
The Holy Monarch could no longer bear to listen; this fellow was purely here to disgust him. He stood up from the dragon chair and pointed a finger at Shi Qingsong.
Chapter 269