The crown prince of the Zhou Dynasty, who was near his forties looked at his favorite son and answered, "It’s merely a poem."
Zhao Xiang was surprised. Although there were prescriptions that were written in the form of a song, but by the look and tone of his father, it did not seem like so.
He wanted to probe further but his father had rested his eyes, obviously, he was not too keen to talk much about it.
His father held the prescription tightly in his palm to the point where his veins were bulging out. That showed how deeply the father was bothered by the illness.
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The Imperial City was also known as the Daming Palace. It was renamed during the time when the Empress took over the administration. The rationale behind the new name was to show that anything under the sun and moon, be it millions of mountains or thousands of rivers were under her rule.