Chapter 302: The Emperor’s Judgment (4) New
“Di Wu’ang, in the fifth year of Tian Tong, passed the provincial examination in the first tier. In the thirty-second year of Tian Tong, at the age of seventy-four, he retired from office. He served as a Censorate Deputy Imperial Inspector and concurrently as a Hanlin Academy Scholar.”
As soon as the old emperor finished reading in a cold tone, he heard Xu Yanmiao exclaim:
[Eh! He actually retired just half a month before I arrived. That’s quite a coincidence, isn’t it?]
The old emperor: “……”
That was indeed quite the coincidence.
When Di Wu’ang straightened his posture and walked out with vigor, he was utterly dumbfounded upon sensing the sympathetic gazes from his former colleagues.
—Although being named by His Majesty was certainly risky, it wasn’t as if he was bound to meet a terrible fate. Why the need for such immediate sympathy?
Of course, Di Wu’ang would never know that what these capital officials pitied him for was something else entirely.
Something that—had he delayed his retirement by even half a month—would have changed the course of his life after retirement.