At four years old, Fan Xian listened to Mr. Fan Fu read the court bulletin in Danzhou. Grave robbers had unearthed Emperor Wenzong’s tomb, where they found three hundred Tang poems and Song lyrics, along with Dream of the Red Chamber, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and Journey to the West. His eyes widened. Was this actually Earth? At eight, Crown Prince Li Chengqian knelt before Emperor Qing in the Eastern Palace in the capital, gazing at him with admiration. What a model native, someone who had actually defeated a transmigrator. Thousands of miles apart, the two children were both eyeing the same court bulletin.
