"Ah."

Listening to Zhao Cuo's joking remarks, Empress Dowager Zhao smiled with an even colder expression, looking at him as if she were looking at a corpse.

"You don't think you can deceive me with such nonsense, do you?"

Her tone was cool.

"Don't dare."

Zhao Cuo lowered his head and said.

"I didn't mean to lie to you just now, but sometimes it's even more difficult to win people's trust when telling the truth, isn't it?"

"Are you questioning me?"

The Queen Mother narrowed her majestic eyes.

"Can you understand my helplessness when I tell the truth but I can't make you believe it? You shouldn't think that I really colluded with the demon clan, right? If that were the case, Xia Yaonv wouldn't make a big fuss last night and then walk away.

, I won’t even be here…”

"You won't be humiliated by me here?"

Empress Dowager Zhao smiled slightly and finished his words for him.

Zhao Cuo's lips moved, but he quickly regained his composure and said no more.

It is an honor for me to be stepped on by my empress - this is something he cannot say.

"Where do you get such high spirits?"

The Queen Mother raised her thin eyebrows, looked at the young man sitting on the ground with his head down but his waist straight, and said with a smile:

"I didn't expect that the heir of this generation of the Zhao family is still a proud person, and he dares to be neither humble nor arrogant in front of me? Your father doesn't have the courage. But it doesn't matter, I like people with strong self-esteem like you."

The curvature of her mouth gradually became cold, and she suddenly raised an exquisite lotus foot as white as jade and stepped on Zhao Cuo's shoulder, slowly exerting force.

"You said that the witch had true feelings for you. I can barely believe it, but so what?"

Zhao Cuo held his breath and concentrated, trying not to let himself feel the warm feet on his shoulders, but the Queen Mother's body temperature seemed to be several degrees higher than ordinary people. The temperature coming from the soles of her feet could not be ignored at all, and the intensity was getting stronger and stronger.

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"Did I make you hold your breath?"

Looking at Zhao Cuo, whose face soon turned purple, Empress Dowager Zhao's face became even fiercer, and she increased the force on her feet to a level that he could bear but would never feel uncomfortable.

"call!"

Zhao Cuo immediately broke through and took a deep breath to stabilize his body. What poured into his nose was the smell of mints that was sweeter than the cool breath that filled the inner hall, which brought him back from the edge of self-destruction.

He raised his head and looked at Empress Dowager Zhao.

From the corner of his eye, he clearly captured the fair legs that were almost touching his face.

The skin is as delicate and soft as jade.

"No talking."

Empress Dowager Zhao looked down at him with an ugly face with joyful eyes, then raised her other foot and put it on Zhao Cuo's right shoulder, using it as a footpad.

Feiwu, who was combing his master's hair, saw this extraordinary scene and quickly lowered his head, sweating on his forehead.

'This woman...'

Zhao Cuo felt the pressure on his shoulders and was extremely speechless. Although the person who did this to him was an incomparably beautiful widow, he could not lie to himself that he was taking advantage. He was clearly being extremely humiliated.

The ground is under your feet.

"Do you know where your position is now?"

Empress Dowager Zhao glanced at him slowly with her pale golden eyes.

"I am aware of my guilt."

Zhao Cuo lowered his gaze and whispered in a low voice. He still knew that he could not do such an overestimating behavior, so he maintained the most basic humility from the moment he entered the East Palace.

"The Queen Mother, I haven't finished what I just said, about the demon princess..."

He tried to change the subject.

"That's it."

However, Empress Dowager Zhao interrupted him half-heartedly, snorted lightly, took back her feet that were on his shoulders, and said lightly:

"I know what you are going to say. You just know that I have a grudge against that demon girl. Your next argument should be that the demon princess will come to you and create an opportunity for me to take revenge. That's it.

right?"

Listening to her flat tone, Zhao Cuo's heart sank to the bottom again and he didn't reply.

"Do you think I would compromise on something like this?"

A wanton smile appeared on her flawless face, she looked down at Zhao Cuo with disdain, and said unhurriedly:

"Why do I need to rely on others to do things in my life? I only have ministers kneeling on the ground begging me to reward me with errands, and no damn person dares to threaten me to let him go because of his ability to do things!"

"yes……"

Zhao Cuo squeezed out a syllable through his teeth, but there was nothing he could do. It was because he took it for granted. How could a woman like Queen Mother Zhao, who had held the highest power for a long time, be shaken by a few words?

"You seem to have finally realized your situation?"

The Queen Mother showed a satisfied smile at the disappointed look on his face, stretched out her tender bare hands to gently touch Zhao Cuo's hair, and said in a wicked tone:

"But don't worry, I won't get angry with you, an eighteen-year-old boy. If you admit your mistake, I will forgive your self-righteousness."

'Are you trying to calibrate me?'

Zhao Cuo felt as if he had climbed from hell to heaven for a moment, followed by a strong sense of shame. The woman first stepped on him into the soil, and now poured some water casually, just to see

He looks so happy and miserable, right?

"Um?"

Seeing that he remained silent, Empress Dowager Zhao uttered another questioning syllable from her delicate throat, which sounded like a threat to Zhao Cuo's ears.

"It is my fault……"

Zhao Cuo tried hard not to sound gritty in his tone, and his downcast face was full of annoyance. At this moment, he decided to respect Hanzawa Naoki as his life mentor.

"Do you know why I spared your life?"

Empress Dowager Zhao's tone returned to her usual calm tone.

"You say."

Zhao Cuo said without raising his head.

"Originally you were going to die, but you are still alive now because I gave you a life. You should spend your whole life to repay this kindness of not killing me, and shine for me until you burn to ashes."

She said things that confuse right and wrong with a matter-of-fact expression.

"I am willing to die for my queen."

Zhao Cuo twitched the corner of his mouth, but he knew that he had to walk out of the East Palace alive now, otherwise all today's submission would be in vain.

"snort!"

The Queen Mother heard the perfunctoriness in his tone, her beautiful eyes turned cold again, and she said in a cold voice:

"I will only say this once. If you don't handle the things I entrust you with, be prepared to die in advance!"

After she finished speaking, she gave the order directly without giving Zhao Cuo a chance to speak.

"Your father has been transferred to Jiangnan. From tomorrow on, you will work in the Department of Punishment, starting from a junior official. This is the last chance I will give you to the Zhao family. If you cannot rise, then there will be no need for the existence of the Duke of Zheng! I
Chapter completed!