Chu Yang opened his mouth, all the things he wanted to say making rounds in his heart. But he swallowed them back down in the end. With a smile, he replied, "Your Majesty is certainly discerning. I was just playing a prank on Your Majesty. I didn't expect Your Majesty to recognize me with just one sentence alone."
Tie Butian laughed, unable to suppress the tremor in her voice.
Chu Yang observed the changes in emotion in Tie Butian's eyes intently.
Her eyes seemed to turn red but resumed a look of normalcy before long. The agitation at the bottom of her eyes remained but she could already conceal the turmoil in her heart.
Her long career as a monarch, as well as the trials and tribulations in her early years, had already forged nerves of steel in this intelligent woman.
