"I am afraid of losing my composure after drinking, so I dare not drink in front of Your Majesty. I am willing to punish myself by confining myself to my home for three months to reflect on my mistakes today..."
"I've already said that Madam Bo is innocent. Besides, it's just a glass of wine, so why would Madam Bo refuse?" His voice remained calm, and no one could detect a hint of malice in it. "Or is it that Madam Bo is dissatisfied with the previous owner of this house and is deliberately trying to show her willingness to die rather than submit in this land? Or perhaps... she's dissatisfied with me?"
Mrs. Bo's waist could no longer support her body, and she was shaking like a sieve.
"I, I dare not..."
King Xuanyuan Su Che, who witnessed everything, tried to plead for mercy several times, but in the end he was unable to speak.
He had no right to plead for mercy, for the emperor had not punished him. But he understood why the people on earth were so terrified.
If she had not had any thoughts about the wine, everything that was happening now would have been just an ordinary gift of wine.
The hand holding the wine glass was as steady as a rock and motionless, as if nothing could shake it.
"Do you want to drink it or not?"
Mrs. Bo's suppressed sobs drifted out intermittently.
"Do you want to drink it or not?"
He asked again, his tone, emphasis and pitch were exactly the same as before, but it was this voice, so flat and without any emotion that was the most creepy.
The surrounding corridors led in all directions, but she chose to walk into that dead end. She could not go forward, backward, left, right, or even up to heaven or down to earth.
After a long time, Mrs. Bo finally took the small and exquisite porcelain cup with trembling hands.
The man in front of her finally smiled, a hint of compassion in his voice.
"Ma'am, please hold it steady. If you spill a drop of this wine on the floor, you'll have to lick it up."
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