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"Emperor! You should get up and go to the royal study! " Chen Xi lightly shook the slumbering Duanmu Yan.

Duanmu Yan whimpered, pulled up her blanket and covered herself tightly: "I don't want to go!"

"If you don't go, Prince Regent will be angry!"

"…" Duanmu Yan lay in bed and played dead for a while before she finally stuck her head out, "... "Then accompany me to the royal study!"

"Alright!"

Duanmu Yan crawled out of the blanket, and after everyone dressed and washed up, they had a simple meal. Accompanied by Chen Xi, they headed towards the imperial study.

"Chen Xi! I'm not late, am I? " Duanmu Yan asked worriedly, afraid that she would be late on the first day.

"Don't worry Emperor, I'm not late!"

"That's good!" Duanmu Yan heaved a sigh of relief, and stopped outside the imperial study.

Chen Xi was suspicious: "Emperor! "Why don't you go in?"

"I'll take a look at the situation first!" Duanmu Yan stuck to the door and looked into the imperial study, only to realise that other than Gong Shengrui who was reading the imperial edicts, there were two other old men sitting with a white beard.

"Stay outside and wait for I to invite you? "Hmm?" Gong Shengrui raised his voice slightly, revealing a sense of danger.

Duanmu Yan pursed her lips. How could she be discovered like this?

He dragged his head and reluctantly entered the royal study.

Chen Xi followed him.

"The rest of you, get out!" Gong Shengrui said without lifting his head.

The two old men's gazes turned towards Chen Xi.

Chen Xi's heart trembled, a look of awkwardness swept across her face: "Emperor …"

"I won't let you go, I want you to stay with me!" Duanmu Yan hugged Chen Xi's arms tightly, afraid that she would abandon him and fight the jackals, tigers, and leopards.

"You are here to learn the way of the emperor, not to play!" Gong Shengrui slowly lifted his eyelids, his dark and unreadable gaze sweeping across Chen Xi, "I, one last time, get out!"

Chen Xi's body trembled, and she quickly pulled away from Duanmu Yan's arms: "Emperor! "Obediently study inside, this servant will wait for you outside the door!"

"Don't, I don't …"

"Emperor! Be good! If you anger the Prince Regent, the Prince Regent might even imprison you! " Chen Xi sneaked a glance at Gong Shengrui and whispered.

Duanmu Yan bit her lips in grievance: "Then you must keep your promise and wait for us outside the imperial study, you can't slip away by yourself anymore!"

"Don't worry Emperor, this servant will definitely wait for you!" Chen Xi consoled her, she turned and walked out of the royal study.

Gong Shengrui picked up the imperial report once again and glanced at the two elders from the corner of his eyes, "Let's begin!"

"Yes sir!"

The two old men stood up and walked to Duanmu Yan.

"I wonder where you have read the Four Books and Five Classics of the Emperor?" Lin asked.

Duanmu Yan secretly glanced at Gong Shengrui, and seeing that he was not looking at her, she lowered her voice and said: "I have read two pages!"

"…" Scholar Lin.

"Then what about the books on the management of everything and how to balance them?" Scholar Fu, who had lost all hope, asked.

Duanmu Yan scratched her head, "What kind of book is it?"

"…" Bachelor of Arts.

Duanmu Yan innocently blinked her eyes. She didn't understand, why were the two of them not saying anything?

Scholar Lin and Scholar Fu looked at each other and simultaneously thought that now was not the time to teach her the path of an emperor. Instead, it was time for her to first understand the most basic of these books.

The moment they recognized each other, the two of them turned around and faced Gong Shengrui: "Prince Regent! This subject and the rest agree that what Emperor needs to do now is to read more books! "

Gong Shengrui slowly lifted his eyelids, the person he was looking at, was not the old man, but Duanmu Yan instead …