"Your Majesty, take a look. I told you to leave, but you refused. You told me to leave, but you wouldn't let me. If I don't leave, you keep bothering me and insist that I help you. Isn't that far too overbearing? You keep saying I'm too overbearing, but I think you're even more overbearing than I am. Isn't that right? I think everything you're doing is quite foolish. You could clearly have discussed this with me politely, though I still wouldn't have agreed."
Fang Yu spread his hands, looking helpless, and the Empress was so angry that she laughed.
"Don't you think those words are shameless? We said so much to you before. When did you ever listen? You never listened. No matter how nicely we spoke, you never listened. Isn't that because you went too far, rather than because we were too overbearing? You're the one who has truly gone too far."
"That's exactly why I told you I wouldn't help. But you refused to believe me and insisted on making me help, insisted on dragging me into it. I already made it very clear. No matter how much you say, no matter how many nice things you say, it has nothing to do with me, and I absolutely will not help. If I help you, it would disrupt my original plans. It's not impossible for me to help, but you have to listen to me. If you won't listen to me, do you think I'm an idiot? Am I an idiot? How could I agree to such shameless terms? Forget anyone else—let's talk about you, Your Majesty, the great and virtuous Empress unrivaled beneath heaven. If you encountered something like this, would you devote all your strength to helping? You absolutely wouldn't. Right? You probably wouldn't even