Chapter 1907

"Gao Yang! So... so in your heart, the trust I gave you... the Duke title and python robe I gave you... the heart I gave you..." She pointed at her own chest, her fingers trembling violently, her voice extremely choked, "These... are all just imperial handouts? They can't even compare to your heart's... instinctive suspicion and fear of me... of the emperor?!"

"These... are all so unbearable!"

The laughter stopped abruptly!

Wu Zhao suddenly wiped her cheeks fiercely with the back of her hand; the action carried a ruthlessness bordering on self-mutilation, instantly wiping away all the tear stains on her face, and seemingly wiping away all remaining brightness and expectation!

When Wu Zhao raised her eyes again to look at the figure still kowtowing below, those phoenix eyes that had once shone brightly and been endlessly charming now held only the extreme coldness of ten-thousand-year black ice after being broken!

She straightened her back, which had been slightly hunched from pain, and lifted her chin, recovering the supreme posture of the Son of Heaven of Da Qian.

An icy pressure, a hundred times greater than before in the Jin Luan Hall, instantly enveloped the entire Imperial Study, and the air seemed to freeze into solid ice.

Her voice no longer had a ripple, cold enough to freeze the soul.

"Gao Yang, since you view me as a flood and a beast... view my trust as worn-out shoes... view my intentions as the dirty handouts of imperial power... view me as so unbearable to look at...

"Then..."

"As you wish!"

Wu Zhao suddenly raised her hand, pointing to the tightly closed door of the Imperial Study, every word sounding as if it had been chiseled from the depths of an ice cave.

"Get out!"

"Get out of my imperial palace immediately! Get out of my sight!"

"My empire... without you, Gao Yang, is still an iron-clad empire! My court... without you, Gao Yang, will naturally have talented people emerging! I... do not need your pity! And I disdain your handouts even more!"

Wu Zhao's voice suddenly rose to its highest, carrying a determination and hatred that pierced through everything.

"Take your 'noble self-preservation' and—never see me again for all eternity!"