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“All right, stop messing around.”
Tang Wu pulled the Ice Empress off his face and held her in midair.
“You don’t have to stay like this forever. Try imagining a different shape and changing your form.”
Upon hearing that she could change her appearance, the Ice Empress finally settled down.
She concentrated, determined to change this humiliating form.
With a gentle flash of light, the Ice Empress returned to her little-girl form. But she wasn’t finished yet…
Following her imagination, she actually returned to her original form: the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion.
Although her size and aura were exactly as they had been before, her strength was less than a tenth of what it once was.
Even so, she was more than satisfied to have regained some of her power.
The Ice Empress tried moving her body.
Then she turned her gaze toward Tang Wu, her tone growing decidedly hostile.
“Tang Wu, it’s time we settled our accounts.”
“If it weren’t for you, I wouldn’t have had to endure any of this. That makes all of this your fault…”
“Seriously? You’re turning on me already?!”
Tang Wu was stunned by how quickly her attitude had changed.
“I just helped you recover some of your power, and this is how you repay me?”
“How is that any different from beating the cook after you’ve eaten your fill, or dismissing the monk once the ceremony is over? Have you no shame?”
“Shut up! If it weren’t for you, how would I have ended up like this?”
Apparently, one should never try to reason with women, because under normal circumstances, they would never listen to reason.
As the two squared off, the atmosphere in the room grew increasingly