Chapter 665: A Demand
"It seems you’ve hit the Empress Dowager where it hurts," Lu Yichen realized, "so your affairs will certainly go smoothly."
"Of course," Zhong Niangyao replied with a smile, nodding, "so tomorrow I’ll have a good chat with the Empress Dowager. It seems she must be well-versed in righteous principles and will surely make Nangong Xin pay for her deeds."
Lu Yichen smiled but said no more.
Early the next day, Zhong Niangyao went straight to the Empress Dowager’s palace, with Lu Yichen not accompanying her. Firstly, because that was the Empress Dowager’s bedchamber, and as an outsider male, it was not proper for him to enter. Secondly, there were some matters she wanted to discuss with the Empress Dowager alone.
Lu Yichen didn’t say anything and stayed behind. It was a good opportunity for him to watch over Zhong Mingxin. They were not at ease leaving Mingxin alone in the National Master Hall.
Soon, Zhong Niangyao arrived at the Empress Dowager’s palace. She didn’t even need the palace attendants to announce her presence, entering the Empress Dowager’s bedchamber directly.
The palace attendants and guards outside naturally wanted to stop her, but Zhong Niangyao merely glanced at them lightly, and they became as if petrified, fear starting to take root in their hearts, their legs trembling uncontrollably.
At that moment, they became acutely aware that this person before them was the State Preceptor, once the person who had made waves across Lai Country, once the person who had saved the people of Lai from calamity. In front of such a person, they found it difficult even to breathe, let alone dare to make any superfluous movements.