Princess Yongxing had certainly not spent those thirty years idling. As her aura gathered and dispersed, an enormous Dharma Form flashed above her head and vanished.
The woman opposite her spoke with a trace of satisfaction beneath her authority. "Not bad. Your aptitude was no worse than Yongchang's back then. It was only because the Nine Heavens targeted you that Zhang A-Niu destroyed your eyes. You must have uncovered the truth by now: that was a plot Xie Tianxia devised specifically for you. At its heart, it was meant to cripple you and eliminate Yongchang's greatest rival for the throne. Zhang A-Niu was merely the blade that struck."
Princess Yongxing found it increasingly difficult to contain her killing intent, but she still said gravely, "I really was blinded by lust back then. I truly fell for Zhang A-Niu, and that was how I capsized in the gutter, crippled by someone beneath me who defied his superior. In that respect, I really am inferior to His Majesty."
She knew that Emperor Yongchang had actually been blinded by lust plenty of times himself. He had even made moves on women whose cultivation surpassed his, yet he had always lived off women while acting like he wore the trousers, and nothing had ever gone wrong.
If Emperor Yongchang could do it, Princess Yongxing believed she could too.
So she set her sights on Zhang A-Niu.
Back then, she had actually been a realm above Zhang A-Niu.
With her status as a princess on top of that, she had no idea how she could possibly lose against a young man who had yet to become a Nine Heavens Vein Master.
Then she crashed and burned.
Zhang A-Niu proved his potential and secured his future position as a Nine Heavens Vein Master.
Princess Yongxing, meanwhile,