Translator: Pika

  The empress was extremely vexed. She had been prepared to use Zu An’s disrespect towards her as a bargaining chip to threaten him further, which would eventually allow her to control him completely.

  However, Zu An just had to turn this phony ‘offense’ into something real. This made things much more troublesome.

  Whether or not his earlier actions constituted an offence was up to her discretion, which left her some leeway as to how to proceed.

  How..