Chapter 68 Who dares to touch her?

Chapter 68 Who dares to touch her?

Chaos reigned in the Imperial Garden.

The Empress Dowager covered her blood-soaked face, the red liquid seeping through her fingers making her once dignified face look ferocious and ghostly.

"Take him down! Take him down for me!"

She screamed hysterically, her voice distorted by extreme pain and anger:

"That vile woman used witchcraft! She's the one who harmed me! Drag her away! Beat her to death with sticks! I want to skin her alive!"

Within this imperial palace, the Empress Dowager's decree is law.

Even though everyone present felt there was something fishy about the matter—

How can you blame a cat's madness on the princess?

But faced with the wrathful Empress Dowager, no one dared to utter a single word.

"Clang! Clang! Clang!"

Dozens of Imperial Guards drew their swords and surrounded Tang Li with murderous intent.

Tang Li remained lying on the ground, her hands covering her head, curling herself into a small ball.

"Excuse me, Regent's Wife!"

The head guard gave a low shout and reached out to grab Tang Li's shoulder, wanting to drag her to the execution rack like a prisoner.

Just as that hand covered in iron armor was three inches away from Tangli.

"Bang--!!!"

A muffled yet extremely penetrating explosion rang out without warning in the deathly silent air.

Everyone instinctively looked in the direction of the sound.

On the Regent's throne.

Pei Yunjing maintained that languid, reclining posture, not even fully lifting his eyelids.

But the fine white jade cup he used for drinking wine had completely disappeared from his hand.

Instead, white powder, like snowflakes, fell softly from between his long, slender fingers.

That was... a jade cup that had been crushed into powder by internal force.

"call……"

A gust of wind blew by, and the powder scattered in the air.

Pei Yunjing slowly raised his hand and casually patted the crumbs off his palm.

Then, he finally lifted his eyelids, and his unfathomable phoenix eyes swept indifferently over the guard commander who was about to arrest someone.

Just that one glance.

The guard commander's hand froze in mid-air, only an inch away from Tang Li, but he could not move forward even an inch.

His pupils contracted sharply, and cold sweat poured down his forehead in an instant.

It wasn't just him.

The dozens of Imperial Guards who had been so imposing were now frozen in place, as if under a spell, their hands gripping their swords trembling violently.

"Who gave you the guts?"

Pei Yunjing's voice was not loud, but deep and pleasant, yet it carried a chilling aura that sent shivers down one's spine:

"How dare you lay a hand on my people in front of me?"

The guard commander's legs buckled, and he collapsed to his knees with a thud, his weapon falling from his hand.

"Your Highness, spare me! I... I am acting on the Empress Dowager's orders..."

"An imperial edict?"

Pei Yunjing chuckled lightly, his laughter full of mockery.

He didn't get up, but looked at the old woman on the platform who was still screaming madly with the same gaze he had for a dead person, passing through the crowd kneeling on the ground.

"Empress Dowager."

He called out, his tone flat and devoid of any respect, more like a judgment:

"A beast has gone mad, and instead of blaming herself for raising a tiger that will cause trouble, the Empress Dowager blames my queen?"

"Sorcery? Or was it orchestrated?"

A red light flashed in Pei Yunjing's eyes, and his murderous aura surged, making it almost impossible for everyone present to lift their heads.

"My queen is as timid as a mouse, she wouldn't even dare step on an ant. The Empress Dowager says she ordered the cat to commit the crime?"

"Are you getting senile, or do you think..."

He paused, then his voice suddenly turned sharp, like a thunderclap:

"You think the sword in my hand is just for show?!"

This angry shout, imbued with powerful internal energy, caused the flowers and plants in the Imperial Garden to tremble.

The Empress Dowager's screams stopped abruptly.

How could she forget?

This man is an absolute madman!

He was a tyrant who dared to trample on even imperial power!

Tang Li lay on the ground, listening to the domineering protective voice above her, her mouth almost stretched to her ears in a wide grin.

Cowardly as a mouse?

They wouldn't even dare step on an ant?

Tsk tsk tsk.

The filter is so thick it's practically a city wall.

but……

She likes it!

Tang Li quietly raised her head and looked at the man who could suppress the entire scene without even getting up. Her heart was pounding wildly.

Is this what they call...winning without effort?