Empress: Your Majesty, please respect yourself, I don't want to be promoted

Wu Zongyun asked with a frown.

Wang Zhi shook his head.

"Impossible, His Royal Highness the Holy King is invincible! How could something happen?"

The conversation started, and all the courtiers spoke freely, but they still couldn't guess what was going on.

"Wait a minute."

Wang Zhi stroked his long beard gently and said solemnly: "His Royal Highness the Holy King may have been delayed by something. He will probably arrive in a while. I'll just wait patiently."

"Master Wang is right, I am the one who is impatient."

"If you don't even have this little patience, how can you help His Royal Highness achieve great things and create a glorious and prosperous age in the future?!"

"..."

People always subconsciously tend to believe what they want to believe. After being comforted by Wang Zhi, all the courtiers instinctively suppressed their uneasiness and continued to wait.

However, almost half an hour passed, and there was still no trace of anyone on the distant horizon.

As time passed, everyone became increasingly uneasy.

At this moment, several figures dressed as servants or housekeepers suddenly walked out from the corner of the street behind.

The courtiers were very nervous at this time, and the movement behind them immediately attracted their attention.

When Wu Zongyun saw one of the old housekeepers, his heart skipped a beat, and then he took the lead and walked over without waiting for anyone to react.

After he left, several old men among the courtiers followed closely behind.

Apparently, there were some of them among those servants.

"Old...Master...no...it's not good!!"

Before Wu Zongyun could get closer, the old housekeeper shouted out of breath.

Upon hearing this, Wu Zongyun's uneasiness suddenly became extremely intense.

"Old Fu, what's going on? Why are you here?"

Lao Fu is an old man from the Wu Mansion. He has been a housekeeper in the Wu Mansion for decades and has won the trust of the Wu family.

People like him usually don't have to run errands to report news to their masters. They can just ask a servant to come over.

And once he comes in person, then something big will probably happen.

"It's not good, sir! The Holy King...His Royal Highness the Holy King...His Royal Highness the Holy King, he..."

After hearing Lao Fu's intermittent words, Wu Zongyun's heart sank deeper and deeper.

Then, before Lao Fu could finish speaking, a man dressed as a servant shouted loudly: "No, sir! The Holy King you mentioned led his army into the city through Nanhua Gate!!"

As soon as these words came out, all the courtiers opened their eyes wide and turned pale with shock.

"What did you say?!!"

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Pat... Pat...

Ziji City, inside the Liuke Corridor.

A burst of uniform footsteps came in from outside.

What followed was an aura that was so oppressive that it almost made people collapse, as if there were thousands of troops outside that were gradually crushing them, making people instinctively feel like they couldn't breathe.

Hearing this sound, Lu Chen's eyes suddenly flashed, and his dark eyes concealed crazy and suppressed excitement.

'Is it finally here? '

"Are you back..."

Jiang Chengwan stood up slowly, patted the dust on his body that he didn't know existed, and said to Lu Chen across from him: "Then, it's time to pick up the great hero of Zhuguo who made great contributions to the dynasty."

Hearing this, Lu Chen couldn't help but feel awkward.

He always felt that the puppet emperor in front of him, who had always been despised by everyone, was a little weird today.

In the past, the empress was always submissive in front of others, she could not even speak a word, and she looked weak and incompetent at first glance.

But now, what is going on with this calm and domineering look?

And this kind of powerful words don’t seem like something a puppet emperor could say...

Normally, when facing the unparalleled Saint King Cangming who seeks to usurp the throne, but she is unable to resist, as an emperor who is about to be deposed, she should not be trembling with fear, trembling in despair and waiting for misfortune. fate?

I'm a little confused by your open-mindedness...

"what happened?"

As if aware of Lu Chen's eyes, Jiang Chengwan raised the corners of his mouth imperceptibly.

"Does it look like there's something wrong with me?"

Lu Chen said respectfully: "No, His Majesty is wise, powerful, and unparalleled in magnificence. How could there be anything wrong with that?"

But I was complaining in my heart: Damn, there is nothing normal about you, okay?

Could it be a rebound from being suppressed to the extreme, a direct change in temperament in extreme despair?

Hmm...that's possible.

Jiang Chengwan naturally didn't know Lu Chen's inner monologue. When he heard what he said, a bright smile quietly flashed in the corner of his eyes.

It's clear she's happy now.

Not only was he about to regain his supreme authority as an emperor, but also because of Lu Chen's words.

"Really? That's fine."

After responding lightly, Jiang Chengwan took steps and walked towards the door.

Lu Chen put away his thoughts, stood up and followed him, walking to Jiang Chengwan's side in a few steps.

"Your Majesty, you'd better go back to Ziwei Palace."

Hearing this, Jiang Chengwan looked at Lu Chen with a subtle look: "Why?"

Lu Chen took a deep breath, and then said righteously: "The name of the Holy King of Cangming is Xia Chen, and he is actually a Xia thief. Now he has entered without an edict. From this sound, he must have brought many troops with him. He must be trying to force him to As for Your Majesty, such an ambitious person is very likely to act arrogantly towards Your Majesty, or even seek to usurp the throne. Therefore, Wei Chen feels that it is better for Wei Chen to go and test it. If there are changes, Your Majesty may There is still a little time to deal with it..."

"No need!"

Before Lu Chen finished speaking, Jiang Chengwan quietly clenched his fists and interrupted him.

"It is impossible for Saint King Cangming to harm me, I believe in him!"

As she said that, her eyes suddenly became a little deeper: "It's like I believe in you."

Chapter 24 Arrogant

Hearing the empress's straightforward words, Lu Chen couldn't help but twitch the corners of his eyes.

Thank you so much for your trust...

He really couldn't understand that the Holy King of Cangming had already made it so obvious. He had not paid any attention to the Empress in the court before, and his ambition was fully exposed in front of everyone. How bad was the Empress's mind? He would say such incredible things.

Forget it, I guess this guy has been suppressed to the point of going insane. There is no need to talk nonsense with a person like her who is not normal. It is better to go directly to the trouble of Holy King Cangming.

With this thought, Lu Chen didn't say anything more, got up and followed the empress out.

In Ziji City, the Queen Mother's people have been cleared away, and the remaining palace staff are basically those who worked in the past, but now they are surrendering to the lustful power of Saint King Cangming and pretending to serve the Empress.

When he came outside, Lu Chen saw several eunuchs and maids looking towards the Xuanji Gate with uneasy expressions. Behind them were Xuanwu guards wearing black armor.

Seeing the empress and Lu Chen coming out, the palace people first looked at Lu Chen in surprise, and then hurriedly walked to the empress' side to serve.

The Xuanwu guards remained expressionless. They waited until the empress passed by them before they made any move. They guarded the empress dutifully like the guards in the palace before, but they didn't even look at Lu Chen.

Like a cold machine.

The empress looked forward and said calmly: "Huaiyu, come here."

Lu Chen was startled for a moment, then responded and walked behind the empress.

At this time, the empress suddenly took two steps back and approached Lu Chen.

Suddenly, a charming fragrance hit him, and a few strands of black hair were gently swayed by the breeze, drifting gently over Lu Chen's face. The slight touch brought a tingling feeling of comfort, which was inexplicably intoxicating.

"Let's go."

A calm voice sounded in my ears.

"Come with me and make a complete settlement with the past."

Hearing this, Lu Chen felt a strange feeling in his heart.

Of course, it's more about the weirdness.

This extraordinary way of speaking is not something that the puppet emperor who can be rounded and squashed by others can have...

Shaking his head, Lu Chen suppressed the foreboding feeling welling up in his heart and responded in a deep voice: "Wei Chen, what an honor!"

The empress nodded slightly, then stopped talking and led everyone towards Xuanji Gate with a calm expression.

At this time, outside Xuanji Gate.

Jiang Chengdao sat astride Jueying's horse, looking directly at the Xuanji Gate that was wide open not far away.

Behind him, a group of core generals of the Cangming Army stood quietly on the spot. No matter how the cold wind of winter raged around them, they could not shake them in the slightest.

Among such an elite Cangming army, there were a few eye-catching figures. It was Li Zheng, Xie Hongyun and others that Jiang Chengdao brought with him when he sent troops to pursue the Queen Mother Zhao.

I saw that they were all dressed in green clothes and dressed as scribes. Moreover, they were either potbellied or thin. In addition, they did not dare to use the cold-dispelling technique in front of the Holy King. Their physical fitness alone could not stop the invasion of the cold wind. Trembling constantly.

"His Royal Highness the Holy King..."

Li Zheng couldn't help it anymore, so he braved his horse and walked to Jiang Chengdao's side.

"I forgive you for being brave, but I dare to ask you what are you waiting for?"

As soon as he finished speaking, others also looked at Jiang Chengdao.

Although for some reason Jiang Chengdao did not enter the capital from the Huangji Gate on the Shenglin Road as they thought, forcefully declaring that he was about to take over the supreme imperial power in Zhongzhou, he instead entered the capital from the Nanhua Gate on the Si'en Road, following the process of a meritorious official returning to the court. , making the Holy King Party, who had expressed their stance early, instinctively feel uneasy.

But Jiang Chengdao just walked through the Nanhua Gate without saying hello and said nothing else. Therefore, from the current point of view, his ambition to seize the throne while the emperor's power is declining has not changed, but it is just unnecessary for some reason.