Chapter 82

What was going on? He snatched his hand back in pain and looked around. Why did it feel as though he had been burned?

"Your Majesty, is there an assassin?" The guards closed in to protect him, but nothing stirred nearby. There was no assassin; they could not even see a stray cat or dog. They spread out again.

Something this strange had to be the work of a demon. The guards and eunuchs eyed Ye Zhenzhen suspiciously. They had never seen a woman so beautiful. "Your Majesty, could this woman be the cause? Might she be a fox spirit or some other demon?"

But the emperor looked as though he intended to have her whether she was human or demon. "I decree that I shall marry my new empress tomorrow and welcome her into the palace."

The most jealous man in the Six Realms is about to make his entrance. Stay tuned.

Chapter 82

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"Report!" A young eunuch suddenly rushed into the great hall in a panic.

"What is it?" the emperor asked.

"Your Majesty, the Great Lin Dynasty's treasury has been blown up!" The eunuch knelt and kowtowed desperately, afraid the emperor would take out his anger on him and cost him his life.

"Whose treasury was blown up?"

"Ours, Your Majesty. The Great Lin Dynasty's."

"What of ours was blown up?"

"The treasury! The treasury was blown up!"

"What! Our treasury was blown up? Take me there at once." The emperor sprang to his feet in disbelief, ready to go with the eunuch. But his gaze lingered on Ye Zhenzhen, and he could not bear to leave. "Pass on my command. Have the Minister of Revenue take men to salvage the treasury immediately. If any silver is missing, I'll hold him responsible."

"Report!" Before the