Chapter 59: Adroit Dice for the Safety of Only One 3
Generally people would not know how their own backs look like, but Xie Lian was
different. He was more than familiar with how his own back looked.
When the kingdom of XianLe first fell, to relieve themselves of anger, the people burnt
down his Baqian Taizi* Temple, desecrated all of his statues, robbed the gems on his
sword and cleaned his attire of gold. Yet after all that the rage continued to burn, and so
they came up with a new idea, and it was to build such kneeling statues.
The Crown Prince that was highly venerated and worshipped was sculpted into the form
of one who knelt and begged for forgiveness, and placed in crowded areas of town so
everyone was free to spit at or kick it when they passed by, and rid themselves of
misfortune. Or worse, some even had him sculpted to be prostrating, and used the
statue directly as a threshold, allowing tens of thousands to walk all over it. In the first