She had already made up her mind that once everything settled down, she would simply send Eunuch Lü to secretly kill this bastard.

Zuan watched as the message "Anger value from Liu Ning +1024!" kept refreshing in the background, thinking to himself, "If it weren't for this, I would have really been fooled by you."

He sighed: "Is Your Majesty planning to appease me first, and then kill me later?"

The Empress was startled. Could this guy read minds? How did he know what I was thinking?

However, her face immediately turned pale as she realized something was wrong. Since this guy knew what she was going to do, how could he possibly let her go? There were just so many assassins outside; she could just pin the blame on them.

The only eyewitnesses were the two eunuchs outside, but they didn't know anything about cultivation and could easily be killed to silence them.

Thinking of this, she dared not hesitate any longer. Gathering the energy she had painstakingly accumulated, she pressed her palm against his chest.

Zu An was prepared and grabbed her wrist, pressing her down on the bed. The strength she had gathered instantly vanished.

The Empress was almost in tears. Back then, her cultivation was so high that she could easily defeat any of these guys with a single palm strike. But now, she was like a tiger fallen into the plains, bullied by dogs—no, oppressed by dogs. It was truly a tragic situation.

Instinctively, Zuan summoned the Death Dagger from the Glass Pearl and slashed it at her neck. The Queen could clearly feel the chill emanating from the blade, penetrating straight to her soul; it was the taste of death. She sighed and instinctively closed her eyes.

The dagger, a weapon of certain death, rested against her snow-white neck. Zu An's expression was uncertain. To be honest, he was not a man who killed indiscriminately, and killing her like this did indeed feel somewhat unbearable.

Unfortunately, if they didn't kill them, the consequences would be difficult to control and would cause endless trouble.

So he found himself in a difficult position.

Sensing his hesitation, the Empress opened her eyes and sneered, "What, you dare not touch me? If you respectfully kowtow three times to apologize, I might consider forgiving you."

"Shut your head!" Zu'an roared, slapping her right across her plump, peach-like buttocks.

The empress was stunned and stared at him blankly, momentarily speechless.

Once she started, Zuan found she couldn't stop, and he beat her up relentlessly. And you know what? It felt really good.

"Hey, what are you doing?"

"Stop hitting!"

"I...I was wrong...isn't that enough?"

Ah~

...

A loud yet suppressed cry rang out, and Zu An was dumbfounded. This woman was far too weak to be beaten.

The Empress's eyes were brimming with tears, her body trembling uncontrollably. She gritted her teeth and said, "I will tear you to pieces!" Her voice was trembling with sobs.

She came from a prominent family. From the time she could remember, her older sister was the empress, and later she also became the empress. She had always been of high status and lived a life of luxury, and had never encountered anything like this before.

She was about to curse again, but her mouth was gagged: "Mmm...mmm..."

Zuan raised her head, wiped her moist lips, and said coldly, "You keep saying that I offended you, and you used that to threaten to kill me. Fine, I really have offended you now. If anything happens to me afterward, the emperor will know that you have been touched by another man. Then let's see how you can be the empress. You should know very well how to choose."

The queen was completely stunned, but after a brief moment of anger, she immediately realized that she really couldn't get revenge on him afterwards.

Just then, a cold snort suddenly came from the doorway not far away: "What a pair of adulterers!"