The Emperor Brought to Justice Outside Taiji Hall

A better Yuwen Rui?

The emperor gazed at the rainbow in the distance.

Its gorgeous light was slowly fading, as was the Vermilion Bird Stellar Force lingering above Jiankang's palace complex. The deathly aura from the Seven Lodges of the Vermilion Bird gradually receded, like solid ice melting beneath a blazing sun.

All of it meant one thing.

That man had entered.

"It seems none of it mattered."

The emperor turned to Su Che. "This struggle between us today..."

A flash of sword light suddenly appeared.

Su Che flicked his hand, and the sword light swept over the emperor's head.

The icy sword intent struck a thread of fear into the emperor, who had thought victory was in his grasp.

He really wants me dead.

How dare he? How could he?

The sword light danced. The emperor looked up and saw strands of hair fluttering through the air.

With that stroke, Su Che had shorn away the hair atop his head, cutting every strand close to the scalp.

"You are the emperor, but you must face punishment too." Third Young Master Su's voice was ice-cold. "Take this Tonsure Punishment. We have a long road ahead of us, you and I. I'm sure we'll be seeing plenty of each other."

The emperor reached up to touch his smooth scalp, his face twisting into a savage grimace.

Tonsure Punishment.

Before the Medieval Era, this punishment had served as a substitute for castration.

If a member of the royal clan committed a crime punishable by castration, Tonsure Punishment was imposed instead.

Su San's meaning could not have been clearer.

"I am the Son of Heaven. You... you..."

"At sunrise I work, at sunset I rest. I dig a well to drink and till the fields to eat. What virtue has an emperor ever