"Your Majesty, who is it?" A hoarse male voice came from behind Empress Shen. "I'll go kill him."

He embraced Empress Shen from behind, his gaze passing over her shoulder and landing on Yun Chi.

Then……

Then he fell silent.

Yun Chi stepped forward slowly, his pace slow and deliberate. He hadn't expected to be so calm.

He walked to the bedside, bent down and pushed aside Liu Qinghe's clothes, then picked up Empress Shen's clothes that had been scattered on the ground one by one and threw them on her.

"Put your clothes on, I'll wait for you outside the hall." Yun Chi heard himself say this, "Waiting for you to give me an explanation."

His cold voice contained suppressed anger and overwhelming hatred. He was surprised that he hadn't rushed forward and killed the man.

After saying that, he didn't look at Empress Chen and Liu Qinghe again, and turned to walk out.

Once outside the palace, he sat down in a chair. The rain had stopped, and a warm summer breeze was blowing, but Yun Chi felt very cold.

It was as if he had been in the ice cave for a very long time, as long as a lifetime, before Empress Shen finally emerged fully dressed.

But her face still had a flush from the aftermath, and her long hair was not tied up, but just draped over her shoulders and back.

Yun Chi looked at her and sneered inwardly: She really is young; she doesn't look thirty at all.

He looked behind her again, but didn't see Liu Qinghe come out. Was she protecting that man?

Empress Shen sat down in the chair opposite him. After a brief moment of panic and shame, she seemed to calm down quickly, as if there was nothing she couldn't accept, and she was calmer than calm.

"You are the Empress, the mother of the nation, and the Emperor bestows upon you unparalleled favor. Why... why are you like this?" Yun Chi placed her hands on her knees, barely able to utter the question.

Empress Shen looked at him and said, "My son, you have grown up. You should know that your father is old, while I am still young."

She paused, then said, "As an emperor, he can have three palaces and six courtyards, but as an empress, why can't I have a young man to serve me?"

"Everyone pursues supreme power, but aren't youthful body and beautiful appearance also within the realm of such power?"

Yun Chi clenched his fist again, making a "crunching" sound. His face turned pale, then red, then pale again.

A metallic taste rose in his throat, but he forced it down. He turned to look at Empress Shen and stared intently at her.

There was a question he wanted to ask, but he was also afraid that once he asked it, there would be no turning back.

But he couldn't help but ask!

Yun Chi's eyes were bloodshot, as if he was suppressing extreme pain, but he finally asked, "Mother, am I, Yun Chi, a prince of the Great Zhou?"

Yes, in that short time, he remembered Ye Yabing's words: was he really the prince of the Great Zhou Dynasty?

Is it true or not?

Ye Qingxue, who arrived earlier than Yun Chi, was now lying on the roof, anxiously awaiting an answer.