Chapter 3: Bixa
As Jiang Changbai spoke, she began to take steps, crossing around the desk and sitting on the chair. Those jade pendants, which symbolised the Jiang family's life, piled up on the desk just like that, and the invisible, untouchable roaming hun spirits floated, unexpectedly faintly separating the two people in the room. "The imperial power is divinely conferred, Guoshi ought to know," Jiang Changbai said indistinctly; yet the story that followed behind these words hadn't come out when she was cut off by Song Juguang. Song Juguang's words unexpectedly had a degree of aggrievement. "Not having met for five years, Dianxia and I actually are unfamiliar; in the past, you even called me A Guang." "A Guang," Jiang Changbai said, perfunctorily; it was clear that she wasn't willing to argue needlessly on the matter of addresses. "The year when the Ancestral Emperor [1] unified the whole of the realm, she led the multitude of officials to Mount...