I, the villainous eldest prince, will suppress everything!

With a blade at his throat, Qin Li shut his mouth and raised his arm, signaling Zhou Biao and the others not to act rashly or have any intention of fighting head-on.

However, he hadn't lived enough and didn't want to die now.

His loud pronouncements about his affair with the Empress were merely a desperate measure.

If the empress is unkind, then don't blame him for being unjust.

The cold blade constantly threatened Qin Li's life. Qin Li said:

"Your Majesty, you can silence a few of us! But can you silence the rest of the people?"

"That's right!" Zhou Biao and the others echoed without fear.

As soon as this news spreads, although the Northern Mang soldiers dare not discuss it openly, they will certainly talk about it in private.

"Let's see who dares!"

"Anyone who dares to spread rumors will have their entire family executed!"

The Empress also stood up from her chair, her cold phoenix eyes sweeping over every soldier on the surrounding city walls.

The soldiers who were being looked at by the Empress all knelt down, not daring to look her in the eye.

Qin Li laughed again: "Your Majesty, I wasn't talking about them, but rather..."

The next moment, a series of unified shouts that soared into the sky came from the barbican beneath their feet. It was the vanguard battalion led by Wei Hongying, who were shouting the same words that Zhou Biao and the others had just shouted.

They might not be able to hear Qin Li's voice alone.

But they could hear Zhou Biao and the others' voices clearly.

Then, Wei Hongying gave the order for everyone to shout together, determined to make this matter known to everyone, so that every Northern Mang soldier would know.

She was cooperating with Qin Li to save herself!

"Your Majesty, it's getting out of control!"

Jin Ge came to the Empress's side and said anxiously.

They could hold a knife to Qin Li and the others' necks and shut them up.

But there's no way to put a knife to the necks of five thousand people and shut them up.

Unless, by order, the vanguard battalion inside the barbican is burned to death.

But now it's too late; the news has already spread.

Every Northern Mang soldier in the city must know about this.

Upon hearing this, the Empress's face turned extremely ugly.

Swish!

She reached down and drew the sword from Jin Ge's waist, placing it against Qin Li's neck with icy eyes. "Aren't you afraid I'll kill you?"

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Qin Li raised his hands, appearing ready to surrender, but a smile played on his lips:

"Scared? Of course I'm scared! I'm absolutely terrified!"

The Empress tightened her grip on the hilt of the sword slightly, and a glaring flash of crimson blood appeared on Qin Li's neck. "You're courting death!!"

"Yes, I'm courting death. Your Majesty, if you have the guts, kill me!!"

"The moment I die, the army of my Great Zhou will immediately attack the city!"

"The vanguard battalion inside the walled city will also riot. If they attack from both inside and outside, what are His Majesty's chances of victory?"

"Once my maternal uncle conquers Xuanque Pass and personally beheads His Majesty to avenge me, we will go to the Yellow Springs together!"

"We'll continue the fight once we get to the underworld!"

In Qin Li's eyes, the Empress showed no fear, only amusement.

Perhaps from the very beginning, he had fallen into Qin Li's trap.

It seems that this is the only way to save the vanguard battalion.

Swish!

She sheathed her scimitar back into its sheath at Jin Ge's waist, then, with her hands behind her back, looked out of the city and said, "Shut your men!"

"I don't want so many people to know about what happened between us so early."

"clear!"

Qin Li waved his hand, and Zhou Biao quickly ran to the city wall and made a hand gesture to the vanguard battalion inside the barbican.

Upon seeing this, Wei Hongying immediately ordered the vanguard battalion to shut up!

As the sound faded, the Empress closed her eyes.

She felt that countless ordinary Northern Mang soldiers on the city wall were looking at her intentionally or unintentionally, wanting to know if it was true that she had drugged Qin Li and slept with him.

A king sleeping with a prince from another country?!

"Now, we can sit down and have a proper talk."

Qin Li sat down first, waved, and ordered a cup of tea.

Having learned this lesson, the Empress will probably not try to attack Xuanque Pass again, and the vanguard battalion will be safe.

The Empress opened her eyes, waved her hand, and ordered someone to make tea for Qin Li. At the same time, she instructed Jin Ge to clear the surroundings, as she did not want any third person to overhear her conversation with Qin Li.

After sitting down, the Empress glanced at Qin Li sideways, clearly still angry: "What good will doing this do you? Aren't you afraid your future Empress will be angry and cause unrest in your household!"

Qin Li didn't care at all. "The women I've set my sights on are all as broad-minded as the ocean. They wouldn't get angry with me over such a trivial matter. Besides, it wasn't me who took the initiative to sleep with His Majesty; it was His Majesty who slept with me. I had no chance to refuse!"

"you……!"

The Empress was furious and wanted to strangle Qin Li.

There wasn't a single word from Qin Li that she wanted to hear.

She truly regretted choosing Qin Li as the father of her child.

What kind of genes are good? Qin Li's genes are absolutely terrible.

If her child is born looking like Qin Li, she'll be in a real bind.

"Alright, alright, let's not talk about this anymore."

Qin Li stopped there, saying, "Speak, what exactly does His Majesty want to do by staying at Xuanque Pass and refusing to leave?"

While the vanguard battalion, led by Su Chen, was certainly reckless, only a fool would believe that the Empress wasn't behind it.

When the Northern Barbarians withdrew their troops, the Empress, instead of leaving sooner, chose to remain at Xuanque Pass to hold the line.

Qin Li strongly suspected that the Empress had something else to tell him.

"It seems nothing can be hidden from the clever Crown Prince."

While offering a small compliment, Jin Ge brought over a cup of tea, but Qin Li did not take it.

"What, are you afraid I'll poison you?"

The Empress asked.

Qin Li laughed and said, "It's not that I'm afraid of being poisoned, it's that I'm afraid His Majesty will drug me again."

"you……!!"

The Empress was so angry that her chest ached. In front of Qin Li, she took a sip of the drink first.

Qin Li then accepted it with relief, and Jin Ge clasped his hands in a fist salute and withdrew as well.

After swallowing the tea in her throat, the Empress said, "I need you to immediately invite the Regent to your Great Zhou capital after your triumphant return."

Why?

"Only with his departure from the royal court can I truly unleash my potential."

This tactic is called "luring the tiger away from the mountain"!

"If you can't even command him, how can I? In his eyes, I'm just a prince of the Central Plains Dynasty who can be crushed with a flick of his wrist."

The Regent held absolute power in Northern Mang, disregarding even the Empress, so why would he take him seriously?

Qin Li was self-aware enough!

"You're so stupid!"

The Empress couldn't help but scold, "Isn't Murong Lie's corpse in your hands? You can use his son's corpse to blackmail him. He has a weakness: of his sons, Murong Lie is the most useless, and he loves him the most!"

"No matter what, he will bring his son's body back to the grasslands."

Nodding, Qin Li said, "No problem, no problem."

Changing the subject, Qin Li added, "I've done His Majesty such a great favor, what can His Majesty give me in return? He can't expect me to have worked for nothing."

With the Regent of Northern Mang kept in check in the capital of Great Zhou, the Empress was able to act with impunity in Northern Mang, eliminating dissidents and cultivating her own confidants.

When the regent returned, he found that the Northern Barbarians had been turned upside down and could no longer stir up any trouble.

Qin Li, you've done the Empress a tremendous favor!

"certainly!"

The Empress said, "I will give you two top-tier experts, worth more than a thousand pieces of gold!"

"Who?"

"My two younger brothers, with a thousand troops and ten thousand horses!"

Qin Li's face fell. "What do I need them to do? Doesn't Your Majesty know? During their captivity, they were two gluttons. One of them ate as much as ten people."

"So what if you can eat? You think you can bankrupt a prince like yourself?"

"This isn't a question of whether we'll go bankrupt or not."

"Do you want it or not?"

"Yes, why not!"

The Empress cared most about her two younger brothers.

From then on, thousands of soldiers followed him, which meant that Qin Li had captured them again.

The Empress always had a weakness in his hands; whatever the Empress wanted him to do, he had to do.

However, Qin Li also felt something was very strange.

Would the Empress really make such a foolish move? It shouldn't be like this.

Shaking his head, Qin Li couldn't figure it out and felt his mind getting increasingly foggy.

When I looked at the Empress again, I found that she had a smile on her face.

Got it!

Looking at the tea in his hand, Qin Li pointed at the Empress in disbelief, "You, you, you poisoned the tea again?"

The Empress nodded and sneered, "They say you learn from your mistakes, but why doesn't the Crown Prince learn his lesson?"

"But you drank this cup of tea too."

The Empress laughed even more heartily, "I did drink it! If I didn't drink it, why would you?"

As he spoke, Qin Li felt his body was no longer under his control, driven only by primal urges.

The Empress wasn't much better off; her face was as red as a peach...