Chapter 2008

Wu Zhao took a deep breath, her gaze sweeping over, and looked at Cui Xinghe.

Cui Xinghe's face twitched, and cold sweat seeped from his forehead.

He was adept at governing the country and the classics, but he was really not good at counterattacking against such ruthless and treacherous poisonous schemes!

"Your Majesty, this subordinate... is incompetent!"

Cui Xinghe opened his mouth and said extremely humiliatingly.

A flash of disappointment crossed Wu Zhao's eyes.

The enemy had been humiliating them for a day, and Cui Xinghe, who was highly expected, hadn't even thought of a counterattack strategy!

This really disappointed her!

"Old General Lu, you usually have eight hundred tricks up your sleeve and many poisonous schemes; do you have any method of checks and balances?"

Wu Zhao asked.

Lu Zhen's old face turned red.

The three kingdoms trading their entire nations for him was the top-tier open scheme.

How could he handle this?

"Your Majesty, this old subordinate... is also incompetent!" Lu Zhen said awkwardly.

Generals like Wang Zhong and Zhao Ponu were also extremely stifled; they had martial strength but nowhere to vent it.

Seeing this, Su Wenling gritted his teeth and stepped out tremblingly: "Your Majesty, please calm your anger. Our Great Qian could... could send an envoy to reprimand them and announce their sinister intentions to the world!"

"Reprimand?" Wu Zhao sneered, only finding these words ridiculous, her voice like ice cones piercing the bone.

"Old Su, can your reprimand stop the mouths of the world? Can it restore the face of our Great Qian? Can it make the three kingdoms pay the price? A joke!"

Su Wenling knelt down quickly, "This subordinate is guilty!"

Wu Zhao clenched her fists, her voice carrying a near-desperate anger: "Is our Great Qian humiliated to this extent that we can't even fight back? Can I only... swallow this evil breath?"

The silence in the hall was even deeper, and a needle could be heard dropping.

The despair brought by Chen Ping's top-tier poisonous scheme was like substantial darkness, swallowing everyone in the Jin Luandian.

Cui Xinghe was so ashamed that he wished he could find a crack in the ground to crawl into.

He was highly expected, but when Great Qian needed him most, he could only lower his head, more like a quail than a quail.

For a time, not only Cui Xinghe, but countless gazes in the Imperial Study subconsciously, as if piercing through the palace walls, looked at that figure who had already moved away from the court—if he were here...

Just as Wu Zhao was rubbing her temples and about to wave to dismiss everyone.

A rush of footsteps came from outside the hall, accompanied by Xiao Yuan's extremely shocked voice.

"Report to Your Majesty, someone claims to have a miraculous strategy that can solve Your Majesty's worries and wash away the shame of Great Qian!"

"Boom!"

As soon as these words were spoken.

The Imperial Study was shocked.

Who could compete with Chen Ping, and who could have a countermeasure in less than a day after the three kingdoms' top-tier open scheme was launched?

In everyone's minds, including Cui Xinghe's, a figure flashed simultaneously.

If it were him...

All the ministers looked up abruptly, an unbelievable light erupting in their eyes!

Is it him?! It must be him who has returned!

Wu Zhao also didn't expect that at this time, someone would ask to see her, and have a solution!

Could it be...

Bang!

Bang bang!

This was the sound of Wu Zhao's heartbeat.

Her heartbeat was getting faster and faster.

The jade hand clutching the armrest of the dragon throne was also tightening inch by inch.

But didn't he make up his mind to break off with her and move away from the whirlpool of the court in the most resolute posture?

How could he come back?

Was it because of her?

Or was it because Chen Ping plotted against him, and he was angry?

But he had finally moved away from the whirlpool of the court; if he returned now, wouldn't he be in danger in the future?

And it would be... danger from her?

She had previously made harsh remarks that the two would never see each other again; how should she face Gao Yang?

Although it was only for an instant, many thoughts surged in Wu Zhao's heart, making her heart chaotic and very flustered.

Xiao Yuan saw that Wu Zhao's expression was wrong, and her heart tightened.

She hurriedly added, "Your Majesty, it is... it is Marquis of Loyalty and Valor Wang Xiao. He is waiting outside the Imperial Study, claiming... claiming to have a miraculous strategy that can solve Your Majesty's worries and wash away the shame of Great Qian!"

"What?"

"Marquis of Loyalty and Valor? Wang Xiao?"

Wu Zhao looked up in astonishment, full of disbelief.

The huge gap made her speechless for a moment.

Xiao Yuan felt very guilty and could only bite the bullet, "Your Majesty, it is indeed the Marquis of Loyalty and Valor!"