"Did you kill the Ninth Princess in the forbidden zone?"
"No!"
Peach Blossom Dock:
The Princess Consort stared fixedly at Chu Qing, her face full of astonishment.
"Did you intercept the Ministry of Works treasury?"
"No!"
"Did you wipe out some main-city-level aristocratic clan?"
"No!"
The Princess Consort grabbed at her hair, looking utterly bewildered. "Not this, not that!"
"Then tell me, where did you pick up these divine weapons and armor?"
Before Chu Qing could answer, the Princess Consort cried in frustration, "These are six complete sets of divine weapons and armor!"
"When I left the Wang family back then, the Wang family seemed to have only seven or eight complete sets of divine weapons and armor!"
"Tell me, where exactly did these things come from?"
Chu Qing smiled and briefly explained what had happened in the forbidden zone.
The Princess Consort fell silent.
She paced back and forth. After a long while, she said in a low voice:
"The divine weapons and armor are very important to the Ninth Princess!"
Chu Qing nodded.
Such good things were important to anyone.
The Princess Consort continued, "And the Ninth Princess is very important to the Empire!"
Chu Qing smiled. "I'm even more important to the Empire!"
"Without me, the Empire is like the sky without the sun!"
The Princess Consort fell silent.
For the first time, she realized:
Chu Qing was even more shameless and arrogantly conceited than she had imagined.
"No, he isn't arrogantly conceited."
"He has absolute confidence!"
"He truly believes he is more important than the Ninth Princess!"
The Princess Consort secretly observed Chu Qing.
Amid the wind and snow, the youth stood proudly, his aura unfathomably mysterious.
Those bright eyes of his brimmed with endless confidence and absolute dominance.
Wind and snow swept past as his