"Greetings, Your Highness!"
As they entered the grand doors of the Imperial Palace, the palace guards on both sides knelt and shouted, their faces brimming with fervor.
Qin Jun, leading Li by the hand, walked straight in. Although the great battle five days earlier had destroyed the Vermilion Bird Terrace and one-fourth of the urban district, the Imperial Palace was unaffected. Now that Qin Jun had moved into the palace, those princes and ministers who had betrayed him were imprisoned, to be punished according to their crimes. With respect to the princes, he did not completely eradicate them; even if they had rebelled against him, he merely demoted them to commoners.
He wasn't afraid of these princes rising up again. If there were a next time, Qin Jun wouldn't care about blood-related sentiments anymore.
"You as the empress, will Daji agree?" Qin Jun asked with a smile as they walked.
In truth, he had someone in mind for the position of empress from early on.
