"Insolence!"
When the Empress Dowager issued this fury-filled scolding, Consort Shu's stunned soul snapped back to reality in an instant.
As she came to her senses, the blood completely drained from her face.
Even though she wasn't the sharpest, at that moment, she realized she had been set up!
"It's not like that, Aunt! It wasn't me..." Consort Shu's face turned deathly pale, her hands waving frantically as she opened her mouth to explain, but the Empress Dowager, her anger far from subsided, slapped the desk in front of her fiercely.
"Is this the grand gift you present to me? This is the surprise you've prepared?"
With each word she spoke, the fury in her eyes grew more intense, and even a beautiful face couldn't help but distort with anger.
Ever since something had happened a few years prior, the Empress Dowager had been extremely taboo about these matters, and no one in the palace dared to cross her.
Not to mention on her birthday, in front of so many people.
