Mythical Three Kingdoms

”You can go check those,” Cai Yan pointed to another bookshelf with her hand.

Those were organized by Cai Yan from various books. In the past, the concept of this discipline didn’t exist, so the different meanings reflected in stories and myths weren’t clear. Now, Cai Yan could look at some forbidden books herself and then find related content in ancient books to revise and compile.

”No, those books are just superficial; these are the core.” Ji Xiang discontentedly said to Cai Yan. She wasn’t afraid of Miss Cai, the Academy Head of Divination Psychology; why fear a book administrator?

However, speaking of which, as a book administrator managing quite a few forbidden books, Ji Xiang was quite envious. At least the people looking at those books didn’t have to worry about anyone controlling them; the perks of being a book administrator.

”No way, Xiang’er, be good; don’t mess with these books. These are all forbidden books. Even if you’re the Academy Head of Divination Psychology, you can’t just mess around with them,” Cai Yan patted Ji Xiang and pushed her towards another shelf. Ji Xiang pouted, looking very displeased.

”Tch, I don’t want to read them anymore.” Ji Xiang said to Cai Yan with a sullen face, then turned around and was about to run off. Cai Yan casually slipped a note into Ji Xiang’s long hair.

”Sigh, this girl, who knows which forbidden psychology book she sneaked off with. Forget it, I’ll look for her tomorrow. Guarding these books isn’t easy. Everyone who knows about these forbidden books wants to see the contents of other similar forbidden books,” Cai Zhaoji shook her head repeatedly as she watched Ji Xiang run off.

There are quite a few people who like to steal books from Cai Yan’s bookshelf. But everyone who can manage to take a book from the shelf has actually been approved by Cai Yan. After all, in Cai Yan’s view, the things written in these forbidden books have a very high value in terms of heritage.

Just like Ji Xiang herself said, if the discipline of psychology is not passed on to her, are we going to let it die out there? What a joke; the content of these forbidden books is seen as possessing great wisdom by all who have read them, except that they fear it being used for some nefarious purposes.

The role of Cai Yan as a book administrator is to discern who can access these books and who needs to wait a bit longer. Actually, as long as Cai Yan is willing to bring someone to this bookshelf, it is already tacitly approved that they can access these books.

The so-called ”no lending” by Cai Yan is actually more of a habit. She herself gets quite bored, so occasionally she’ll engage in such prank-like observations.

Ji Xiang dashed around, clutching the box containing the forbidden books, first ran back to the Divination Psychology Institute, and then felt it wasn’t safe enough. So she embraced the box and ran all the way to Zhuge Liang’s house. After all, Huang Yueying was her cousin, even though the relation was distant, but it was safe.

”Cousin Yueying, let me use your secret room for mechanical research, and also, prepare some food for me,” Ji Xiang said as she entered Huang Yueying’s house, taking out the box with the forbidden books as she ran, directing her words to Huang Yueying inside the house.

”Uh, Cousin, what are you doing?” Xu Ning came out at this time, looking at the box in Ji Xiang’s hands, completely at a loss for what it implied.

But Huang Yueying squinted slightly. She had seen a mechanical type book herself, though it contained various incomprehensible things, at least the part she accessed now was fine. Unfortunately, after two days, the book was confiscated by Cai Yan, leaving her with just a volume on research methods in science.

”First, take out the note from your hair and see how many days Sister Zhaoji gives you. She monitors these things closely; how could she let you sneak one out?” Huang Yueying said, noticing the white stripe in Ji Xiang’s hair.

Upon hearing this, Ji Xiang froze, reached up and felt her hair, and touched the note, and her expression turned dark as she angrily said, ”Cai Zhaoji is so mean, sticking a note in my hair; now I’ll have to wash my hair again.”

”When you take down the forbidden book and don’t run immediately but hop aside instead of giving it to her, she will remember to tell you when to return it. If you return it late, she’ll come personally,” Huang Yueying said calmly.

”Geez, how annoying!” Ji Xiang said with some dissatisfaction. ”I obviously took this book first, then hid it before reading that psychology one, even using other books to fill the spot. I argued with her for so long—how did she know?”

”...” Huang Yueying shook her head at this, ”I heard from my husband that Sister Zhaoji possesses a talent for understanding the contents of books and grasping the core meaning. She can restore the writing to the level of the original author when they were writing it, and if she has the talent in this aspect, she might even surpass them.”

”Does that mean her divination psychology might be better than mine?” Ji Xiang looked at Huang Yueying with unconvinced eyes, though she couldn’t hide her shock.

”Theoretically possible, but according to Yimei’s observation, this ability of hers has two major flaws. One is that the things Cai learns through ability are substantially mastered, but if her own level in that area can’t reach a certain threshold, she can’t progress with it,” Huang Yueying said, raising a thumb.

”So you mean if her ability itself doesn’t reach that extent, then what she directly gains from books is only up to the level of the author?” Ji Xiang inquired, and seeing Huang Yueying nod, Ji Xiang couldn’t help but pout, ”Just a living book, really.”