"Your Majesty, I am a princess of the North Qu Kingdom! Aren't you afraid that treating me like this will chill the hearts of the people of North Qu?"
"It's bad enough that you won't make me Empress, but you're actually making me a prince's concubine!"
"You're humiliating me and all of North Qu!"
Zhou Siyu went berserk at once, her eyes red as she screamed at the emperor seated above, without a shred of concern for her dignity.
Her mental state had already been poor in her previous life. Transmigrating had merely given her a different body.
She hadn't lost her mind earlier only because no one had provoked her.
Now that the plot had completely departed from what she had envisioned, how could she not go mad?
Rong Chen could no longer stand her vile temper and forcibly dragged her back to her seat.
The envoys from the North Qu Kingdom all came before the emperor to beg forgiveness.
They might be envoys, but if they botched this affair and were killed on their way home by bandits who sprang out of nowhere, who could they turn to for justice?
On someone else's turf, they had better tuck their tails between their legs!
Rong Chen knelt before the emperor with his back straight, his words sincere.
The emperor appreciated talent, too. Besides, there was no need to implicate the innocent in a brainless woman's mistakes.
He merely gave them a verbal reprimand, leaving many of the dignity-conscious civil officials in the delegation flushed with shame.
As far as he was concerned, the matter was closed.
Zhou Siyu still wanted to keep making trouble. Unfortunately for her, pressure-point techniques really did exist in this ancient world.
And Rong Chen just happened to know them.
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