"You... are very good...!" The Empress Dowager ground her teeth, wishing she could skin this bandit alive and eat his flesh.
Ji Fengyao gracefully raised her hand and twirled a strand of hair behind her ear, smiling brightly: "Thank you for the Empress Dowager's praise. Actually, I feel the same way myself."
At this moment, the Empress also rushed over.
Having successfully missed the exciting part, the Empress was momentarily stunned by the sight of eunuchs with fur coats hanging all over the ground, the disheveled and unkempt Empress Dowager and her servants, and the inner palace of Suijin Pavilion already engulfed in flames. She didn't know how to react.
When Ji Fengyao saw the Empress arrive, she summoned the "wronged" Lin Shuang to her side and turned to the Empress, saying, "Your Majesty has come at the right time. The Empress Dowager has been frightened. Quickly order someone to send the Empress Dowager back to Cining Palace for proper care."
She took a few steps forward and came to the Empress, her eyes crinkling with laughter, her tone particularly charming: "Don't forget to take away all of the Empress Dowager's clothes. If even one is left out, it will be a laughing stock."
The Empress was completely bewildered. The Empress Dowager's clothes?
Following Ji Fengyao's smiling gaze to the eunuchs slumped on the ground, their bodies covered in fur coats, he suddenly felt as if the whole world had turned upside down.
The Empress Dowager was not close to her to begin with. If she were to handle today's events and make the Empress Dowager remember that she had "seen her embarrassing moments," wouldn't the Empress Dowager treat her like a thorn in her side in the future?
But now that she's here, no one else dares (and probably no one even wants to) bypass her to handle this matter, after all, the Empress is the head of the harem.
This is absolutely terrifying!
Why is it that nothing good ever comes from running into these bandits!
While everyone was silently munching on melons, Shang Xiye suddenly said in a deep voice, "It's not something to be proud of, everyone should leave."
Empress Dowager: "!!!"
Empress: "!!!"
Everyone: "!!!"
They say the most venomous heart is that of a woman.
Ninth Prince, it turns out your mouth is truly venomous.
Everyone knows this is no laughing matter, yet you blurted it out. The last shred of dignity on the Empress Dowager's face has been ripped to shreds by your words!
Ji Fengyao, seemingly reckless and ignorant, followed along with the shouts to clear the area: "Let's disperse, let's disperse. The Empress Dowager is, after all, the Empress Dowager of a country. Let's all give her some face."
Give the elderly some face.
Yes, very sharp, very deadly;
You two are truly a perfect couple.
Everyone lowered their heads and turned away, their faces showing utter dismay, wishing they had eight legs to walk on, lest they be stared at by the Empress Dowager's venomous eyes.
When Shang Chuyue set off to leave the palace, the Empress was dealing with the Empress Dowager's affairs.
Meanwhile, Nie Meier of Chengxiang Palace had just given birth to a baby boy with a full forehead. The fortune teller had received favors from Consort Yin and boasted to Shang Xiche, describing the baby boy as something unparalleled in heaven and earth, which made Shang Xiche extremely happy.
So the three powerful figures in the palace all got up very early, but none of them had time to see Shang Chuyue off as she was married off to a distant place.
Surprisingly, the Ninth Prince, his wife, and the Eldest Princess escorted Shang Chuyue from the palace all the way to the South Gate.
The second prince of Myanmar had been waiting outside the south gate for a long time.
Seeing that the emperor, empress, and empress dowager had not left the palace to escort Shang Chuyue out, and that only a group of ministers and princes were seeing Shang Chuyue off, he thought of the sarcastic remarks he had received from envoys and princes from other countries these past few days, saying that he was probably cuckolded. His expression immediately turned even more unpleasant.
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