Consort Yan's suicide set off a thunderclap that directly stunned the entirety of Luoyi Imperial City.
Yes, everyone inside and outside the imperial city, from top to bottom, was dumbfounded!
The Internal Inspectorate personnel and palace maids were stunned because they knew the consequences of this matter were too terrifying—especially since the news had spread throughout the palace in such a short time. It was truly terrifying.
If it had spread throughout the palace, then outside the palace...
Ji Ao, the New Monarch, was dumbfounded too!
This was fucking slander!
The kind that could not be washed clean!
He had violated and ravaged Consort Yan while drunk?
Could this be any more outrageous?!
Consort Yan was already an old woman several hundred years old. Though cultivation had kept her well preserved, it was not as if it would make him, the Emperor, so desperate for women that he would pounce on anything!
Besides, although Great Zhou was teetering in the wind and rain, there were no fewer than eight hundred, if not a thousand, tender young beauties in Luoyi Imperial Palace waiting for Ji Ao's favor!
Could an Emperor possibly lack women?
And as for after drinking—if he, the Emperor, were truly drunk, those palace maids attending him closely would all be dying to throw themselves at him. Would it ever be a faded old consort's turn to pick up such a bargain?
What was more, if such a thing had truly happened, the Internal Inspectorate's people would have been blood-washed once over.
Even if the Emperor had been drinking, it was not as though just anyone could approach him!
It was impossible!
Besides, the remnant soul of his father, Benevolent Sovereign Ji Long, was still around. No matter how brain-dead Ji Ao was, he would never do such a