The Empress Yan began to sob.
"no way......"
Jiang Ming sighed, "The king insisted on skinning you and pulling out your tendons, and then, while you were still alive, he wanted to throw you into a cauldron of boiling oil... I prevented you from contacting the outside world to protect you. The outside world... now knows you're dead, of course... there's a scapegoat taking your place in the torture."
"I know, I understand!"
Empress Yan wept bitterly, choking out, "But... Mr. Jiang, can you give me a guarantee? I'm so scared, so lonely, sob sob!"
"That kind of thing again?" Jiang Ming frowned slightly.
"Um!"
Empress Yan nodded painfully: "I know I'm old and my beauty has faded, and Mr. Jiang wouldn't want me anymore, but... I just want one of your children, so that... I can rest assured that you won't kill me, sob sob!"
That Empress Yan is quite the schemer!
She wondered when this dark and hopeless existence would end.
Who knows, Jiang Ming might change his mind one day and kill her after he's exhausted his usefulness to her.
Therefore, she wanted to get pregnant with Jiang Ming's child, hoping that Jiang Ming would show her mercy and spare her life for the sake of the child.
"You're quite the schemer..." Jiang Ming laughed.
"Mr. Jiang..."
Empress Yan knelt on the ground, her expression sorrowful, and said, "If Mr. Jiang can make me pregnant and give me a son or daughter, I will tell you an even bigger secret. This is of utmost importance to you, and you... will surely be satisfied!"
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