Chapter 208: Empress Dowager: No One Will Stop Me from Finding a Man
Boom!
A terrifying aura erupted from the Female Emperor.
In an instant, her Imperial Robe billowed, her eyes brimming with murderous intent.
All the palace maids knelt on the floor, trembling as though treading on thin ice, looking as terrified as could be.
They did not even dare raise their heads.
"What did you say? Say that again! Who exactly did that woman go looking for?!"
Her murderous words seethed on and on.
The maid's legs went weak. She trembled, not daring to utter a single unnecessary word.
"B-Blood Rain Demon Venerable!"
The Female Emperor's expression grew uglier and uglier.
Hers was a beauty that could topple cities and kingdoms, but her features were too sharp, too domineering.
So much so that people overlooked her sex.
She held a piece of jade in her palm. With a series of cracks, she crushed it to pieces by sheer force.
It turned to fine powder and spilled onto the floor.
Her face remained expressionless, and only after a long while did she gradually calm down, no longer as enraged as before.
"What exactly happened? Tell me the truth, and conceal nothing. Otherwise, I guarantee you will die without a place to bury your bodies!"
"Y-Yes!"
The maid obediently recounted everything, leaving out no detail, telling it exactly as it had happened.
Only after a long while did the Female Emperor finally understand, though her expression remained extremely grim.
The Empress Dowager!
Naturally, she was not her birth mother.
She was another woman her imperial father had installed after her mother's death.
This woman had even been her close friend, and the two had been extremely close since childhood, but later...
Before her mother's bones had even grown cold, that