"Women can't be too assertive!?"
Yu Lan was stunned too. She looked at her father.
Mr. Yu gave her a pained look, then continued staring down at the ants on the ground, counting them. He didn't dare contradict Blue Demon with so much as a word.
"Lan Lan!!"
Blue Demon continued her earnest lecture. "A couple might fight at the head of the bed, but make up at the foot of it. Go apologize to the Qin Emperor yourself in a bit, and we can put this behind us."
"I'm not going!!"
Yu Lan fumed. "That scummy dragon was the one being unreasonable, and he deceived my feelings! Even if I had to jump off this immortal mountain, I still wouldn't forgive him."
"You're not going!?"
Blue Demon immediately changed her tune and scolded her. "Do you know I spent all my savings renovating Yuanqiao Immortal Mountain? What if the Qin Emperor gets angry and takes it back?!"
"Then let him take it back!"
Yu Lan remained stubborn. "As long as I'm alive, I will never bow my head to him. And I won't stand by and watch him confiscate all the weapons in the land to forge those Twelve Golden Men."
"Confiscate all the weapons in the land!?"
Mr. Yu's expression turned grave at once, as if he had sensed something.
"What does it have to do with you if the Qin Emperor confiscates all the weapons in the land!?"
Seeing that scolding her didn't work, Blue Demon tried appealing to her feelings. "You should be putting all your energy into competing for the position of Empress, not running off to contradict the Qin Emperor and prove that you're even more capable than he is!!"
"Mother, you don't understand!"
Yu Lan's face was full of righteous indignation. "Confiscating all