This was the first time Prince Xi had suffered such a crushing defeat after spending so many years in the Imperial Court.
If looks could kill, the monarch would have burnt to ash and entered the reincarnation cycle by now.
Su Li slowly coaxed, "How about we end the assembly for now? Imperial Brother, you go back to your estate and take some rest."
She had simply said those words to end the assembly at a good point where neither of them had to lose too much but sadly our heroine forgot that these are ancient times.
In this period, people were never straightforward and their words would take eight turns and eighteen curves to convey the meaning.
Hence, His Majesty was once again misunderstood by everyone present in the audience hall.
They thought that the monarch had spared the imperial officials for today's infraction and simply passed down his judgment on the perpetrator of the entire debacle.
