"Your servant Shangguan Wuji pays respects to Her Highness the Princess!"
Inside the main hall of Mingyu Imperial Palace, Shangguan Wuji, commander of the Hanhai Army, formally performed a grand salute to Princess Qingyun.
"General Shangguan, rise. A seat shall be granted."
Princess Qingyun had already learned the reason for this. Facing the Great General Who Suppresses the West, who commanded fifty thousand Hanhai Army soldiers, the teenage girl forcibly suppressed the fear and unease in her heart, displaying the bearing expected of royalty.
Of course, Wang Chen standing at her side gave her the greatest courage!
"Thank you, Your Highness."
Shangguan Wuji took a seat, then said in a deep voice, "Your Highness, I led my troops to surround Mingyu Imperial Palace not out of any disloyal intent, but under the Empress Dowager's decree. If I have caused offense, I ask Your Highness to forgive me."
The Empress Dowager!
The Great General's words immediately stirred towering waves in the hall.
No one could understand why the current Empress Dowager would do such a thing.
Even if Princess Qingyun had not been born to the Empress Dowager, her marriage into Great Yan was for the alliance between the two nations. For the Empress Dowager to suddenly interfere and order the Border Army to besiege the marriage delegation was truly inconceivable!
Wang Chen's eyes flashed. "General Shangguan, speak plainly. What exactly happened over in Great Ye?"
If no major upheaval had occurred in the imperial capital, such a thing could never have happened.
Wang Chen's instincts told him that Emperor Shaowu had most likely met with disaster as well!
Shangguan Wuji glanced at Wang Chen, then looked again at the stunned Princess Qingyun. A trace of pity flickered in his eyes. "Ten days ago, a palace coup took place in Great