"Innocent? A clear conscience?"
The Empress Dowager froze, as though she had heard the greatest joke in the world.
"Female Emperor, don't you think this is utterly absurd? Healing? Who heals like you two do? Do you really take This Palace for a joke?"
"Believe it or not. That's up to you."
"Of course I don't believe it. You always mocked me for being debauched and immoral before. Naturally, I must repay you now."
"You!"
The Female Emperor's face flushed crimson. Furious beyond measure, she stared fixedly at the Empress Dowager, already realizing that things had reached the point of no return.
The rift between the Empress Dowager and her ran too deep. Persuading the Empress Dowager not to reveal this would be as difficult as ascending to heaven.
Besides, she disliked handing the initiative to someone else. Under these circumstances, perhaps she could only carry out the demon's plan and drag the Empress Dowager into the mire as well.
And record it with a Recording Stone. Then the Empress Dowager would likewise have to swallow her grievance in silence and naturally would no longer dare leak these images.
However bad her relationship with the Empress Dowager was, however angry she was with her, they still shared a nominal relationship, after all. At the thought that both of them would now have to engage in such absurd cultivation with this demon-and together, at that-
She could not help feeling a turmoil of anger, feeling that she was drawing ever closer to becoming a fatuous ruler.
She even felt that the demon was deliberately scheming against her. Otherwise, how could she possibly have fallen into this dilemma?
At that thought, she endured the waves of impact and glared fiercely at the demon.
Fang Yang instantly saw through her thoughts and said