Chapter 467 - Proper Palace Intrigue (6) (1/2)

“Do you think I’m a pawn or a player?”

Those words, spoken in a very calm voice, seemed filled with arrogance to Yuwen Xun.

His thoughts swirled in his head. “Yun Gui Fei, what do you want?”

“Did you think I’d just let you off, after what you planned to do to me?” Shi Sheng exerted a bit of pressure with her sword, easily managing to stab through Yuwen Xun’s clothes.

As the icy-cold blade pressed against his skin, a frigid aura travelled from its edge into his body. It was as if he’d been pushed into frosty water on a moonless winter night—it seemed like his very bones were freezing.

Yuwen Xun had never felt himself so close to death.

Shi Sheng didn’t exert any more pressure. She could feel the resistance coming from Yuwen Xun’s body. If she tried pushing further, she’d definitely be sent flying by his ‘ML-halo’ buff.

At that point she’d turn into the model example of failing spectacularly at showing off.

Shi Sheng stuck her chin out towards the teapot on the table. “Drink that.”

‘Drink your own medicine!’

“Yun Gui Fei, I(z) am a monarch! You dare to treat me(z) like this?!”

He was the one who’d ordered the drug to be placed in the teapot, so how could he not know what was inside? He mustn’t drink it!

‘If I’d known this woman was so hard to deal with, I wouldn’t have told my people to leave just now.’

“My, what are you saying, Your Majesty? I simply wanted to treat you to some tea.” ‘Think you’re the only one capable of outright bullshit? Think I(bbb) haven’t been educated, eh?’

“Your Majesty, are you going to drink it yourself or am I going to have to make you?”

Yuwen Xun found her words to be very familiar. They had been the words he’d spoken to her just moments prior after all.

Yet, in the blink of an eye, he was getting them returned to him.

As the Emperor, Yuwen Xun naturally had the ability to endure. So he did his best to stall for time with Shi Sheng and find a way to contact his people outside.

Shi Sheng naturally had no patience to waste time with Yuwen Xun. She roughly kicked him over while he was trying to convince her, picked up the teapot, and poured its contents into his mouth.

“Good luck, Your Majesty.” Shi Sheng dragged him over to the window and tossed him out.

Yuwen Xun fell flat on his face. He hadn’t had time to call out before he heard his Gui Fei speaking in a dark tone, “Don’t think about coming back with reinforcements. I might not be able to solo all you guys but…I promise I’ll have no trouble with blowing up the whole city. I naturally have a way to deal with you, seeing as I’m letting you go. Besides, it’s not like I’m afraid of dying.”

The last part was the most important point.

Yuwen Xun clumsily got up. Shi Sheng was leaning against the window, watching him.

“Zhuang Qiong, just you wait!” He wished he could snap her neck.

Shi Sheng turned around and tossed the body of the black-clothed man out too.

“Oh, I’m so scared!” Shi Sheng patted her chest before slamming the window shut.

As the light from the room vanished, Yuwen Xun’s figure immediately fell into darkness. ‘Zhuang Qiong!’

……

The next day, Shi Sheng heard that Lu Ruo had been promoted to Zhao Yi.

‘Seems like it was Lu Ruo who helped him out last night.’

Perhaps because that drug really did have memory altering abilities, Yuwen Xun seemed to have no memory of what occurred when he came looking for Shi Sheng.

Yuwen Xun definitely wouldn’t have told anyone the true reason he came to her palace last night. There shouldn’t have been all that many in the know, and those that did were probably the first to be silenced by him.

After some thinking, Shi Sheng started to feel rather dissatisfied. ‘I got to flex and he just forgot the whole thing?’

Yuwen Xun wasn’t a fool. He ought to have at least one aide who helped him come up with his plans and knew all the details.

So even if Yuwen Xun didn’t remember what happened inside, he ought to at least know roughly what happened.

One could tell from the imperial guards slowly amassing outside her palace, as well as the serving maids and eunuchs that had been subtly swapped out.