141 The higher they are the harder they fall 3

The next day, the Grand Chancellor's residence. Grand Chancellor Zhao's bedroom.

All the windows in the widespread room were sealed with braisers placed at all corners of the room with the hottest stationed close to the Grand Chancellor's bed.

A pale old man sat up and quietly read through a book. Although he looked pale, his eyes looked quite active. Although he was swaddled up in thick clothes he still shivered on occasion.

They say that the older you get the faster the body degenerates a fact that Grand Chancellor Zhao understood well. He had watched the same thing happen to his father.

While he watched his father suffer and die in a backwater border town because of his aunt's foolish actions. That was not the case in his time.