"Do you think I am incapable of sentencing you to death for speaking rudely to the emperor?" the emperor snarled in a soft voice but with an icy look in his eyes, as their eyes still remained locked, he shifted his gaze from one of her eyes to the other but she still didn't show fear, her lips curled up into a fearless but controlled smile while she raised her chin up.
"Does your majesty think you can sentence me to death?....." she questioned then she shifted her eyes from one of his eyes to the other, the emperor squinted his eyes at her guts, while he twisted the large gold ring on his finger and scoffed silently. Huo Ying who was standing beside the both of them swallowed her saliva tensely, she could feel the threatening and tense mood in the hall, she was proud of her mother but she wondered if her mother was taking it too far, after all, their fate kind of rests in the emperor's hand.
"Your majesty, my...."
