Our Azure Qilin Is Still a Great Southern Kingdom-Are We Just Going to Let Him Humiliate Us Like This? (Please Subscribe and Vote with Monthly Tickets)

One was the reigning Empress Dowager of the Azure Qilin Kingdom. Though already past forty, she had maintained herself exceptionally well and looked barely thirty. She wore a dark-gold palace dress patterned with phoenixes, her cloudlike hair piled high and adorned with pearls and jade.

Her features were dignified and regal, her skin as fair as jade. Her eyes and brows carried the mature allure of passing years and the composed grace they had left behind. As her gaze shifted, it held both the majesty of one accustomed to power and the seductive charm of a mature woman. She was a truly breathtaking beauty.

The other was the young Empress, dressed in a vivid-red palace dress embroidered with a hundred birds paying homage to the phoenix, with the Nine-Pheasant Four-Phoenix Crown upon her head.

She was only twenty, in the most beautiful bloom of womanhood. Her face was exquisitely lovely, with almond eyes, peach-blossom cheeks, and vermilion lips. Her figure was slender and delicately curved. Beneath her solemn bearing as the mother of the nation lingered the tender softness and graceful charm of a newly married woman. Her radiant beauty was beyond compare.

Li Chen let his gaze linger unabashedly on the Empress Dowager and the Empress, admiring their distinctly different charms. Then his lips curved, and he addressed the emperor and the director calmly. "I can see that both the Empress Dowager and the Empress possess innate wisdom and clear spiritual perception. It seems a pity to keep them confined within the palace. Why not let them cultivate with me? Perhaps a different destiny awaits them."

The entire gathering fell silent at those words!

This was no longer merely demanding a minister's daughter. He was trampling the emperor's dignity underfoot and grinding it into the dirt!

The director's heart