Dazai Yangchuan conheceu a Imperatriz Yan Wugou quando ambos ainda eram desconhecidos. Yangchuan ajudou Yan Wugou a ascender ao trono e consolidar o governo, mas, à medida que o prestígio de Yangchuan crescia, a imperatriz começou a desconfiar dele. Aproveitando-se das acusações de alguns oficiais, a imperatriz rebaixou Yangchuan e tentou abolir seu cultivo. Nesse momento, um sistema apareceu; Yangchuan, voluntariamente, destruiu seu próprio cultivo e deixou o palácio, rompendo totalmente com a imperatriz. Entretanto, logo após sua saída, a criada ao seu lado revelou sua verdadeira identidade. Ela era, na verdade, a Imperatriz do Estado de Qi!
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Great Kang.
Pingtian City.
The imperial palace stretched across tens of thousands of acres, its golden chambers and jade-green tiles radiating magnificent splendor.
Within the Golden Hall, the civil and military officials, dressed in court robes bearing embroidered insignia of birds and beasts, had at last found a common enemy.
“This man shows no respect for law or discipline!”
“I, Feng Zhang, Grand Censor, beseech Your Majesty, for the sake of the realm and its people, to have Grand Chancellor Yang Chuan executed!”
“Guo Huairen, Left Vice Minister of Justice, petitions for the execution of Yang Chuan!”
“Peng Zhen, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, petitions for the execution of Yang Chuan!”
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More than a dozen high-ranking officials clad in purple and crimson stepped out from the ranks and prostrated themselves upon the floor.
Their hands trembled around their tablets of office, tears and mucus streaming down their faces.
The chief minister of an entire empire was being denounced by them as though he were not the pillar of Great Kang, but a lump of mud so rotten that he had to be removed without delay.
Upon the Phoenix Terrace sat the empress of Great Kang, Yan Wugou. Born with the bearing of a dragon and phoenix eyes narrowed slightly, she wore a face in which delicate beauty and solemn authority coexisted. Not the slightest ripple could be discerned upon it.
Whether grand chancellor or court official, all seemed to lie within the grasp of her hand.
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