Guarding the Palace of Peace and Happiness

The new emperor understood the empress's thoughts perfectly well.

Even if their relationship as husband and wife was poor, as long as the empress bore the new emperor a child, the two of them would be bound tightly together.

Accordingly, the empress often sought the pleasures of the flesh and was extremely forward in bed, enough to make even the new emperor shudder.

When he saw the empress come looking for him again during the first watch, he could only think that she had too little to do, leaving her with nothing on her mind all day but having a child.

"Jiaojiao, you..."

"Your Majesty, terrible news! The grand empress dowager says someone has forced their way into the Yang Mausoleum again. This time, they seized the Heaven-Shaking Arrow she was controlling with her magic!"

"What?"

The new emperor had just been about to rebuke the empress, but her sudden report made him rise at once.

"Even with the Heaven-Shaking Arrow, the grand empress dowager couldn't defeat those demons?" the new emperor exclaimed. "What about the Demon-Revealing Mirror? Didn't it work?"

"The grand empress dowager was controlling the Heaven-Shaking Arrow and couldn't easily divide her attention to control the Demon-Revealing Mirror," the empress said quietly. "The grand empress dowager repeatedly asked Your Majesty to resolve the matter of the Yang Mausoleum, and now..."

"How was I supposed to resolve the matter of the Yang Mausoleum?"

The empress fell silent without saying what the consequences would be, while the new emperor nearly ground his teeth to pieces.

All the ministers at court watched the grand empress dowager's expression. How could he possibly have the power to resolve the problem?

Could he dispatch Dou Ying to guard the Yang Mausoleum? Or mobilize Xu Chang, Zhuang Qingdi, and the others?

"That's right. The