"Regicide?!"
The Empress was stunned the moment she heard it.
The impact of those two characters was simply too great for her; for a while, she couldn't even recover her wits.
Though she had never held much respect in her heart for Wu Lie as Emperor, and especially after being with Chen Mo, she had even harbored the dark thought: "If only he could pass away a bit sooner…"
She had never had, nor would she dare to have, the notion of "regicide."
After all, as the Empress, mother of the realm, her power itself came from Wu Lie. If she truly did such a thing, she would be challenging the entire nation's ethical order; that was the sort of crime that would implicate ten clans and leave a curse of infamy for a thousand years!
"What, scared stupid?" Yu Youhan arched a brow.
