Chapter 2331 - Li Heng Still Remembers! (1/2)

Chapter 2331: Li Heng Still Remembers!

The voice was neither too loud nor too soft, but it sounded like a boom of thunder in Wang Chong’s ears, causing his body to shudder as he raised his head.

The nearby Li Heng was staring at him with sharp and bright eyes.

His face was extremely calm, but the trembling of his lips and sleeves betrayed his agitation.

“Your Majesty, you…”

Wang Chong looked at Li Heng, his mind in turmoil.

Sovereign and subject were so for a lifetime. In truth, he and Li Heng had a very deep connection, but it seemed like Heaven had wiped everything away, making everyone forget about Wang Chong’s existence.

Wang Chong had secretly tried before, but even those who traveled with him to Sindhu, Young Master Qingyang and Old Eagle, had been affected by the Celestial Palace and forgotten about him. And now that he had ‘left’, all of the pressure of the empire was placed on Li Heng’s shoulders.

Wang Chong had infiltrated the palace as a general and followed the palace attendant to the study only to take a look at Li Heng from a distance and then leave.

After all, now that everyone had forgotten him, the relationship between sovereign and subject no longer had a meaning.

Wang Chong had never imagined that Li Heng actually remembered him.

The Imperial Palace was the center of the capital, and logically, it should have been where the effects of the Celestial Palace were the greatest. But it seemed like Li Heng wasn’t affected at all.

Had Heaven intentionally let Li Heng go, or was there a mistake? But how?

“It’s you! It’s really you!”

Li Heng was ecstatic as looked at Wang Chong.

“I just knew that I wasn’t misremembering. Although all the officials in the court said that We were wrong and that the Great Tang had no King of Foreign Lands, that everything was false, We always believed that it was all true.”

Li Heng had felt very tired lately, like he had been in a dream all this time.

On a day that he couldn’t remember, he awoke to a very strange sensation, as if something had changed. Everything had somehow become unreal.

But he still vaguely recalled that the marriage between Wang Chong and Xu Qiqin was coming, and he was the matchmaker for this wedding.

Thus, just as before, Li Heng summoned a major official of the Bureau of Rites, but to his surprise, when Li Heng mentioned the name ‘Wang Chong’, the rites official was confused, asking him who Wang Chong was. He claimed that he knew of no such person and even thought about requesting the Bureau of Revenue to seek this person out.

Li Heng was infuriated at these comments, believing that this official was making fun of him. He had placed extreme importance on the marriage between Wang Chong and Xu Qiqin. For Li Heng, Wang Chong was both teacher and friend, and he would permit no one to humiliate him.

Li Heng had immediately removed that rites official from his post, and then he summoned another official to ask for an update on the matter. But to his surprise, all of them claimed that they had no idea who Wang Chong was.

Li Heng had been dumbfounded.

The Bureau of Revenue, the Bureau of Rites, the Bureau of Punishments, the Bureau of Military Personnel… the officials of the Six Bureaus would never be so bold as to join together to deceive him. Li Heng sensed that something was wrong.

Calming down, Li Heng described Wang Chong’s numerous achievements, how he had reversed the situation in the war of the southwest, won the war of the northwest, the war against Arabia, the war in Youzhou… Wang Chong had a dazzling set of accomplishments that was unmatched throughout the ages.

But after Li Heng finished talking, everyone had baffled looks on their faces, and Taihe Palace was deathly still. Not a single person remembered any of these incidents.

Li Heng felt a sensation of utter absurdity.

He immediately went to find King Song.

King Song’s line had been friends with the Wang Clan for several generations, and Wang Chong had been one of the people King Song had the highest opinion of. King Song had also been one of the most strenuous promoters of Wang Chong throughout his career. While everyone else could forget Wang Chong, King Song could not.

But to Li Heng’s shock, even King Song had forgotten of Wang Chong’s existence.

Though he strained his mind to the limit, in the end, he shook his head. At that moment, Li Heng’s mind was blank from the immense shock.

And what he learned after that left him completely stupefied.

The guards he had sent to the Wang Family Residence had reported that there was no such residence in the southwestern part of the capital, nor was there a King of Foreign Lands Residence. Even the families of Wang Chong’s big uncle Wang Gen and little uncle Wang Mi had disappeared.

This was no longer a problem of whether anyone remembered Wang Chong. They fundamentally didn’t exist.

That Wang Chong and the Wang Clan seemed to only be delusions in Li Heng’s mind.