For two full days, Li Chen experienced the pleasure of a monarch who skipped morning court.
It was an achievement that only becoming emperor could unlock.
Chu Ruoyan had joined the battle midway, but she soon suffered defeat.
Orchid Fairy was in the saint realm, after all. Her body could still withstand the pressure.
"Are you even human, doing this?!" Orchid Fairy snapped viciously at Li Chen.
She had never imagined that she would end up like this only a few days after arriving in the Imperial Capital.
She wanted to curse him, to say he would suffer retribution for this, but the problem was that she and Heaven-Topping High Person had ambushed Li Chen-and still lost.
That made any talk of retribution nonsense. She had no grounds to say Li Chen would suffer it.
Besides, Li Chen had neither seized power nor usurped the throne, and he had committed no acts of tyranny since becoming emperor. She simply could not find anything to attack him over.
But she could not swallow her anger without saying something, so she could only criticize his personal morals.
Li Chen replied, "Let's speak with a clear conscience. You were the one taking the initiative in the second half. You enjoyed it even more than I did. How can you blame me?"
"You..." Orchid Fairy could not get another word out, whether from anger or embarrassment.
Her memories had returned, but Li Chen had sealed her meridians. She was effectively an ordinary person now, except that her body was stronger than an ordinary woman's.
There were two ways to undo the seal.
Either kill Li Chen or find someone whose cultivation matched or exceeded his to remove it.
But where could she find such a person? She could not even see through Li Chen's