Long Xinghuang was shocked by her blunt words and even forgot to punish her. He stammered, "What did you say?"

Qi Tong was shocked to hear Mu Tiantian's suicidal remarks and exclaimed, "What the hell?! Are you out of your mind?"

Mu Tiantian: [I'm about to leave, so I need to vent all the anger I've been putting off lately. Since I'll never be back, I'm going to "give him a good talking-to."]

She continued, “Am I wrong? Your quick temper makes you too easy to be manipulated. As an emperor, instead of thinking about how to use others, you are being used by others. Don’t you think you’re a puppet emperor?”

Long Xinghuang's mind seemed to clear for a moment after hearing her incisive words.

However, her attitude and her words, which were enough to punish nine generations of her family, severely damaged his dignity as emperor.

He must punish her!

Long Xinghuang lost his temper and, as she said, exploded, "Lin Miao! How dare you utter such treasonous words! I can exterminate your entire family!"

Mu Tiantian was not intimidated at all. "I am just a commoner, an orphan, I don't even know where my nine generations of relatives are, besides..."

Suddenly, she raised her fist and swung it quickly toward his face, stopping abruptly in front of him.

Mu Tiantian slowly leaned closer to Long Xinghuang and whispered, "Your Majesty, if I had a knife in my hand, you would already be dead. So do you think it would be faster for you to exterminate my entire clan, or for me to take your life?"

Long Xinghuang looked at her in horror, but then he noticed that one of her eyelids seemed to be drooping, and his panicked heart calmed down.

He noticed that her pupils seemed larger than normal, very bright, and so beautiful that it was impossible to look away.

Her eyes held a hint of a smile, but no threat.

So what she just said was just to scare them.

The two were very close; he could even smell her scent, a faint, almost imperceptible scent, like milk.

But he wasn't sure, and didn't think much of it.

Long Xinghuang's attention was fixed on her eyelids, which he felt looked like they were fake.

He raised his hand and leaned forward, trying to peel off the skin that was sticking up at the corner of her eye.

Mu Tiantian thought he was going to attack her, and her body reacted instinctively, instantly throwing him over her shoulder.

Long Xinghuang let out a mournful howl.

The guards outside immediately pushed open the door and surrounded Mu Tiantian.

Long Xinghuang's back ached from being thrown by her, and he also vomited blood due to the poison taking effect.

The guards thought she was going to assassinate the emperor, so they were about to act.

Seeing that things had gotten a bit out of hand, Mu Tiantian quickly helped Long Xinghuang up, but the guards saw this as her taking the emperor hostage, so no one dared to make a move.

Taking advantage of the brief moment, she took his pulse. Remembering his condition, she apologized, "I'm sorry, this was just an instinctive reaction. How about this, I'll help you relieve the pain when the poison takes effect. My disrespect towards you is my own business, and you can't hold my master and junior brother responsible."

In his haste, he was only thinking about teaching Long Xinghuang a lesson and forgot about the other two.

However, it's unlikely that she would take her anger out on unrelated people because of her, especially since she's all alone and they aren't part of her extended family.

Before Long Xinghuang could answer, Mu Tiantian pressed several acupoints on his body and transmitted some true energy to him. Then she whispered a prescription in his ear, "Follow my prescription and drink a bowl of this medicine every time you have an attack of poison. Although it can't remove all the toxins from your body, it can relieve the pain when you have an attack of poison."

Long Xinghuang touched his chest and felt as if a warm current was flowing through his body, relieving his angina until it disappeared.

Mu Tiantian pushed him away, and the guards immediately lunged at her. She was about to fight back when Long Xinghuang shouted, "Stop! Take Lin Miao to the prison to await his fate."

...

Qi Tong said, "Later you were imprisoned, but eventually escaped."

After hearing all this, Mu Tiantian had only one thought: she absolutely could not admit that she was Lin Miao.

The things she said to him back then would have been enough to kill anyone.

Mu Tiantian took the wooden figure of him standing and reading. Although the two were made from the same mold, the wood grain was slightly different.

Perhaps it's because she carved it that I can tell the difference.

“These two statues are the same, so I’ll just pick one at random. But this wooden statue is so exquisite. I will definitely treat it like the Emperor and worship it well.” Mu Tiantian said very seriously.

Upon seeing this, Long Xinghuang's eyes flickered slightly, and he said, "I have a favor to ask of you, Miss Mu, you should be willing to help me, right?"

He verbally asked for her help, but in reality, he was very assertive and wouldn't allow her to refuse.

Mu Tiantian maintained her smile, "Your Majesty is too kind. It is my honor to be able to help Your Majesty as a commoner."

Long Xinghuang took down another wooden figure of a child reading a book, pretended to ponder for a while, and then asked, "Miss Mu, don't you think one of these wooden figures is missing?"

"One is missing?" Mu Tiantian didn't know what he meant. She looked at the nine wooden figures on the shelf, some practicing swordsmanship, some writing, some squatting... in different poses.

Adding the wooden figures they had, there were eleven in total. Even if she took one, there would still be ten left. She had specifically chosen the same figures to avoid leaving any empty spaces.

She's so thoughtful, what could possibly be missing?

Long Xinghuang slowly said, "I like perfection."

Mu Tiantian took a moment to process what he meant and, thinking he didn't want to reward her, put the portrait back in its place and smiled, "Perfect in every way."

Long Xinghuang frowned slightly. "Miss Mu, do you not like the wooden dummy I gave you?"

Mu Tiantian's smile froze. "How could that be?"

"Then why did you put the wooden statue back?"

Mu Tiantian was speechless; serving a ruler was truly like serving a tiger.

She had no choice but to take the wooden figure back and change the subject, "Then what did His Majesty want me to do when he asked me to help him?"

Long Xinghuang took a step toward her, lowered his head and got closer to her, and Mu Tiantian subconsciously stepped back.

He stared into her eyes for a long time; those dark pupils overlapped with the dark pupils in his memory, including the scent on her body.

He wanted to be certain of something, so he took a step forward.

Mu Tiantian felt that the two were too close and began to back away, while Long Xinghuang continued to move forward until she had nowhere left to retreat, and her retreat was blocked by the imperial desk.

"Your Majesty! Please speak your mind. I will do my utmost to help you." Mu Tiantian said, stopping him from going any further.

When she saw him stop, she quickly pulled away and moved a few steps away from him.

Long Xinghuang stopped approaching and chuckled as he looked at her. "I just want Miss Mu to carve another wooden figure for me. As long as it doesn't overlap with the existing figures, it's fine. There's always been one missing from this collection of wooden figures."

His words were clearly loaded with meaning.

The key point is that after giving her one, I wanted her to carve another one.

Are you sure it's a reward and not a punishment for her?

"This..." Mu Tiantian gave a dry laugh, "This humble woman doesn't know how either."

"If you don't know how, you can learn. I can find someone to teach you." Long Xinghuang felt that these were not problems.