Chapter 1135 - 1140: The Fate of Bad Guys (5)
Both the east and west sides feature suites, with the west side housing The Emperor’s study, filled with well-known ancient tomes, lone volumes, calligraphy, and paintings.
The western side is The Emperor’s living quarters, where one enters to find a fire kang presumably used by The Emperor to ward off the cold in winter. On the kang there are yellow cushions, a red flower-patterned kang blanket, mattresses, and backrests for bedding, while the floor has spittoons, a dressing mirror, Ruyi, and a smoothly cut knife. On either side of the kang, there are Kang tables and cabinets, on which are displayed treasures and stationery carved from jade, porcelain, enamel, bamboo, wood, ivory, and horn.
The bedroom further in contains a wooden couch, with the Purple Sandalwood dragon couch intricately carved and bearing a somber hue. It is draped with a bright yellow dragon tent, which has bright yellow tassels with Coral Beads dangling from it, making it tempting for anyone to lie down and fall asleep.
In addition, the indoor space is fully furnished with bookshelves, trinket shelves, incense tables, long desks, crescent tables, zither tables, chairs, Embroidered Stools, and writing cases, among other furnishings. Due to the small and convoluted space within the room, the furniture is mostly small and exquisite, featuring categories such as black lacquered and gilded, or inlaid with mother-of-pearl on a lacquer base.
Above the walls, besides hanging silk and paper, there also are imperial calligraphy, landscape paintings, flowers, and birds on insert screens or hanging panels, with frames mostly made from Purple Sandalwood, carved lacquer, and enamel borders, inlaid with materials like jade, gemstone, enamel, ivory, and Cui.
Upon entering the Royal study, a painting on the dragon case caught Cai Wei’s attention.
It was a realistic drawing of a skull, depicting a bizarre skull topped with a pair of sharp horns akin to that of a cow, and a somewhat smaller horn over the nose, resembling that of a rhinoceros. Yet, it was distinctively different, sporting a head shield near the neck area, quite unlike that of a rhinoceros.
Triceratops!
Cai Wei was shocked. It was obviously the skull of a triceratops, which she had seen in a museum in her past life and knew a bit about.