Even if you saved us, you are still the enemy

"Chancellor Cai?"

The civil and military officials looked around, but the usual bootlicker Cai Kun was nowhere to be seen.

If Cai Kun were here, seeing Qin Xiao display such a miracle, he would definitely kneel down and furiously flatter him.

And he would be the first!

For a moment, everyone looked at each other in dismay.

Soon, someone realized.

"Chancellor Cai entered the imperial palace yesterday and has not returned yet!"

Qin Xiao frowned.

At this time, another minister carefully reported, "Your Majesty, Lord Cai went to see his daughter."

"However, he still hasn't returned. Moreover, staying overnight in the harem is forbidden. Could something have happened?"

Qin Xiao's eyes narrowed, and he said in a deep voice:

"Let's go to the harem and take a look."

Thus, the mighty group left the drill grounds.

Qin Xiao felt a slight doubt in his heart.

Could something have happened to Cai Kun?

If this sycophant died.

He would never find another person so obedient.

Quickly, they arrived at the harem.

Qin Xiao stepped inside, with the crowd following behind him.

When they entered the harem.

Qin Xiao noticed something was wrong!

The ground was covered with autumn leaves and overgrown weeds, a complete mess.

Garbage was everywhere, and vegetable leaves could be seen scattered about.

How did this solemn and majestic harem end up in such a state?

Especially when Qin Xiao crossed the imperial garden.

Those beautiful flowers were all withered and dying.

Some flowers had been directly picked or uprooted.

One must know that these flowers were worth a thousand pieces of gold.

They were gathered by Qin Xiao from all over the world.

"What is going on here!"

Qin Xiao frowned deeply, his sharp gaze sweeping over a group of palace maids.

When the maids on both sides saw him, they panicked for a moment.

Some maids even hid the flowers they had picked behind their backs.

"Your... Your Majesty..."

They stammered, their eyes dodging.

One palace maid lowered her voice and said to the others:

"What are you afraid of? Everyone is equal. So what if he is the Emperor? Is he not human?"

Hearing this, the palace maids looked at each other, a blazing fire igniting in their eyes.

That's right!

Why should they be afraid?

Everyone is equal!

Must the Emperor be superior to others?

Seeing that the palace maids had not moved for a long time.

"Audacious! You see His Majesty and still do not bow!"

Jia Xu stepped forward and angrily rebuked the palace maids.

The leading palace maid put her hands on her hips and gave an unkind look:

"You are just a man, what right do you have to act so high and mighty! What right do you have to yell at us!"

"We are weak women, bullying women is nothing to be proud of!"

These words.

Left the civil and military officials completely stunned, staring dumbfounded.

Wait a minute.

Their brains crashed a bit, their heads buzzing.

What did they just hear?

Someone actually dared to say such things!

Qin Xiao was also slightly taken aback.

He looked at these palace maids.

They didn't look very old, at most eighteen or nineteen years old.

Their features were delicate, with a bit of childishness remaining.

Qin Xiao stared at them for a moment.

"Is this really what you think?"

These people were all women he had rescued from the battlefield.

Some of them were almost ruined by the enemy army.

It was Qin Xiao who brought them back and gave them a place to rest, so they wouldn't have to flee from the war and become slaves.

The leading palace maid looked at Qin Xiao with some fear, her eyes darting away.

But when she thought of the words Wang Yuanyuan had said, a fire surged in her heart.

She clenched her fists, raised her head, and looked directly into Qin Xiao's eyes.

"War is men's business."

"Why do the wars you men start have to involve us innocent women?"

"This is all your fault!"

Her voice was clear, trembling slightly.

Yet incredibly firm.

Qin Xiao's expression changed slightly.

He fell silent for a moment.

Then he swept his gaze over the other palace maids.

Their eyes were also extremely defiant.

Clearly, these palace maids had all been influenced by Wang Yuanyuan.

Qin Xiao slowly nodded, a gentle smile on his face.

"What you say makes a lot of sense."

The palace maids were slightly stunned, somewhat in disbelief.

The angry rebuke they had imagined did not come.

But the next second.

Qin Xiao let them see what the wrath of an emperor truly was!

"Men! Drag them down and beat them to death with staffs!"

His voice was not loud, but it contained a chilling intent.

Everyone was frightened into absolute silence.

The palace maids trembled all over, their faces showing terror.

"No! What right do you have to kill us?"

"It's obviously all your fault!"

"You tyrant! You will die a horrible death!"

They shouted, but were pinned to the ground by the guards.

The execution staffs violently struck their bodies, and soon they were covered in blood.

Blood spilled from the corner of the leading maid's mouth, and her eyes gradually returned from resentment to clarity.

She struggled hard.

But she couldn't stop the severe pain coming from her body.

At this moment, Qin Xiao walked up to her.

His voice was calm but very clear.

"If I hadn't saved you back then, you would have died long ago. What right do you have to resent me here?"

"Since I saved you, letting me kill you can be considered repaying my kindness!"

These words made the palace maid stare blankly.

After a long while, tears slipped from her eyes, as if she understood something.

She stopped struggling.

Lying on the ground, her body trembled, whether from pain or regret.

Finally, her voice was hoarse:

"Your Majesty... I was wrong!"

"Please spare me!"

Qin Xiao looked at this group of palace maids in silence.

"Good! I forgive you!"

The group of palace maids was overjoyed.

But Qin Xiao's tone shifted.

"I'll forgive you in your next life!"

"Kill!"

The execution staffs continued to beat them.

Soon, their heads were broken and bleeding, and they lost their breath.

From beginning to end, Qin Xiao's expression remained calm and unruffled.

Disobey him?

Courting death!

He hadn't been to this harem for a long time.

Entering this time, he only felt that everything was bizarre.

"Everyone is equal?"

A cold glint flashed in Qin Xiao's eyes.

"It seems a fellow countryman has arrived."

The corners of his mouth curled up slightly.

This fellow countryman might even be one of the concubines in his harem!

Right at this moment.

"Ahhh!"

"Murder! Murder!"

Piercing screams rang out.

A large group of concubines ran out in a panic, holding their heads.

Seeing the corpses on the ground, their legs went soft from fright.

Wang Yuanyuan was at the very back.

Her face was pale, her body trembling, and when she saw Qin Xiao, her eyes were filled with anger.

"It's you! You killed them!"

"You are a murderer!"

"They were all innocent people, why are you so ruthless as to brutally murder them!"

She became more and more agitated as she spoke, even rushing forward to fight Qin Xiao.

Qin Xiao raised his hand and grabbed Wang Yuanyuan's wrist, his eyes cold.

"You seem to have forgotten my status!"

He raised his hand and slapped Wang Yuanyuan's face. The sound was not loud, but it made everyone present shudder.

Wang Yuanyuan's head jerked to the side, half of her face swelling high, and blood spilled from the corner of her lips.

Her phoenix eyes were filled with uncontrollable anger!

"You... you dare hit me!"

"How dare you hit me!"

She reached out to fight Qin Xiao desperately, her sharp nails scratching fiercely at his face.

But the next moment, Qin Xiao backhanded her with another slap!

Slap!

A crisp slap struck her face fiercely, shoving the rest of Wang Yuanyuan's words back down her throat.

"Crazy, you are simply crazy!"

Her hair was in disarray as she glared fiercely at Qin Xiao, her eyes brimming with absolute hatred!

Her roar startled the surrounding concubines and palace maids.

"Your Majesty..." a concubine of humble origins began to speak, trembling.

Qin Xiao turned his head to glance at her. His eyes were pitch-black and as cold as an abyss, striking terror into the hearts of those who met his gaze.

They immediately fell silent, not daring to utter another word.

Seeing this, Wang Yuanyuan angrily rebuked the other concubines.

"So what if Qin Xiao is the Emperor? What we demand is equality for all!"

"Does he think that just because he is the Emperor, he can place himself above us?"

"A man striking a woman is an act of sheer brutality!"

"Do none of you want to walk out of the depths of this palace and see the outside world?"

Her impassioned speech left the group of concubines feeling deeply ashamed.

A moment ago, they had been terrified of Qin Xiao, but now, after hearing Wang Yuanyuan's words, they felt their blood boiling and a fire burning in their chests.

It was the blazing flame of freedom, a burning desire to shatter their shackles and break free from this cage!

"Qin Xiao! So what if you are the Emperor! Even if you can possess our bodies, do not even dream of ever possessing our hearts!"