Chapter 889 - 891: Entering King Qin’s Mansion (6)
Nangong Yi said, "Rest assured, after all the effort to get to where we are today, I won’t break the jade bottle just to kill a rat!"
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Jin Guifei, upon receiving the news that the assassination had failed, was utterly enraged. She furiously smashed items around the room, shouting, "Damn it, take care of all those useless wretches for me, leave none behind!"
Li Shanggong paused briefly, then advised in a low voice, "Your Majesty, these people are the best of your secret guards. It was not easy for them to return alive. Please give them a chance to redeem themselves. After all, training a secret guard is no easy task. If you kill so many all at once, you won’t have many people at your disposal...."
"Shut up!"
Jin Guifei, pointing at Li Shanggong’s nose, hysterically said, "Don’t think I can’t see that these secret guards are nothing but opportunists. Now that The Prince has been disposed of, none of you takes me seriously anymore, daring to treat me with such negligence. If I let them off, who would still respect me, and who would work diligently for me? Pass the order, execute that bunch of trash for me right now. If you pity them, then go die with them!"
Li Shanggong broke out in a cold sweat all over her body. She wasn’t noble enough to risk her own life pleading for others—that was something she could never do in her lifetime.
Seeing that Jin Guifei had grown irrationally furious, Li Shanggong, not wanting to draw the fire unto herself, quickly tried to change the subject.
"Your Majesty, this servant heard that that little b*tch had lunch in The Emperor’s study with The Emperor today at noon, and she even begged The Emperor to name her son as King Ding."
The ’little b*tch’ Li Shanggong mentioned was none other than a palace maid turned beauty, with the surname Yan and given name Zhaoyan. She was only eighteen this year. Originally a palace maid in charge of tending to flowers in the Imperial Garden, she encountered The Emperor by chance two years ago, and due to her outstanding looks, she was favored by The Emperor once. Eventually, she bore a son and was conferred the title of beauty.