Meng Qingzhou chuckled lightly, "Your Majesty and Wu Die have no enmity, and Wu Die has rendered great service. Even if I don't protect her, would Your Majesty truly kill her?"

He almost added, "I bet you wouldn't actually do it, which is why I dared to challenge you."

The Empress bit her red lips, her cold eyes dimming. "Then how do you explain betraying your wife and entangling with another woman?"

She knew she shouldn't ask. Regardless of her identity, she had no right. As the Empress, it was a relationship of ruler and subject; as Dongfang Liuli, it was merely an employer-employee relationship, pretending to be a married couple.