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At that moment, the lamp guardian came to report:
“The Crown Prince of Chiyan has arrived and is waiting outside the tower.”
The Monster Emperor paced back again and looked at the sky outside. Night had already deepened. “Summon him in.”
* * *
Before the sun had even fully set, the commoners of Lingxu City had already begun getting off work and heading home in waves. Thus, both the main roads and the han carriages entered their peak evening traffic.
The city had regulations: during the hour of the rabbit[1] and the hour of the monkey[2]—in other words, one two-hour window each in the morning and evening—the main avenues allowed only horses, bo beast carriages, han carriages, and monsters to pass, so as to prevent traffic from locking up.
Anyone who could ride in a carriage or on a bo beast was either rich or noble. To put it plainly, these two time windows restricted commoners from taking private vehicles. They could only use the public han carriages.
The han carriage He Lingchuan boarded had forty people crammed into it. Forget seats, there was not even room to plant both feet properly. Pressed right up against him was a broad auntie who was about as wide as she was tall, her head buried directly in his chest.
That joyous feeling from his previous life, when rush hour meant intimate physical contact with total strangers, had returned once more.
The main road was jammed with...
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