Chapter 9

Chapter 9

I spent the whole night helping a crowd of old men and women move cultural relics, working straight through until dawn.

By the time the sun was high in the sky, I finally collapsed onto my bed, yawning as I fell asleep.

When I woke up again, the trending searches had exploded.

And not just Huaxia’s trending searches.

Trending searches all over the world had blown up.

#Country A Art Museum Robbed#

#Country B Collection Hall Robbed#

#Country C Museum Robbed#

#Home of Famous Country D Collector Robbed#

#Country E Auction House Robbed on Eve of Auction#

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At the same time, museums all across Huaxia began receiving massive donations of cultural relics.

Among them were all kinds of bronze vessels, antique paintings and calligraphy, porcelain, jade…

Every country in the world was furious.

They formed an alliance and filed a joint lawsuit against me in the International Court of Justice.

But Huaxia shot down every accusation with one sentence.

“Do you have proof?”

You say we Huaxia people stole your things. Do you have proof?

Surveillance footage?

Fingerprints?

Entry and exit records?

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None of that?

Then what kind of nonsense are you spouting?

It’s the twenty-first century. Can you please be a little scientific about this?

What? You say the massive number of donated relics Huaxia received are the same relics stolen from your museums?

What a joke! These are gifts from our ancestors after they manifested their spirits!

What? You say that’s unscientific?

Huaxia has five thousand years of history. A few unscientific things happening is perfectly normal!

If you’re not happy about it, go ask your ancestors to manifest too!

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The outside world was arguing itself into a frenzy.

I stayed home and continued livestreaming.

I connected with Emperor Jiaqing of the Qing dynasty and told him to stop closing the country off from the world and start an industrial revolution instead!

To express his gratitude, Emperor Jiaqing sent me all twelve zodiac animal heads from the Old Summer Palace.

I connected with Wu Zetian before she ascended the throne and told her that she would become the first female emperor in Huaxia’s history.

Wu Zetian was deeply shaken after hearing this, and she gifted me the authentic Preface to the Orchid Pavilion by Wang Xizhi.

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One precious cultural relic after another appeared across the land of Huaxia.

Those destroyed by human hands, those plundered in war, those smuggled and sold…

No matter how a relic had been lost in the vast river of history, I always found a chance to bring it back.

Then I donated them to museums, so these relics could receive the best possible care and preservation.

Huaxia’s archaeological world reached yet another peak.

One hazy civilization after another was proven to have existed.

One missing piece of history after another was filled in.

For five thousand years, the wheels of Huaxia’s history had rolled ever forward.

And with these cultural relics, the people of Huaxia once again remembered the road they had taken to get here.