Who Isn't a Green Tea Bitch

Ying’er was frightened, looking like a startled fawn, yet a trace of imperceptible cunning flashed through her eyes.

Instead of backing away, she took two timid steps forward and reached out as though to tug at the Azure Emperor’s sleeve. In a wronged, pleading voice, she said, “Sister Azure Emperor, please don’t be angry with my husband. I only wanted to…”

“Get away from me! Don’t touch me!”

The Azure Emperor was furious and instinctively furrowed her brows.

As an unparalleled powerhouse, a layer of soft azure protective radiance naturally surged around her body.

She swore that she had not released even the slightest killing intent. This was merely the most basic repulsion of spiritual power, meant only to keep this ignorant maid from coming near her.

However, an unexpected scene unfolded.

Before Ying’er’s hand could even touch the azure light, her entire body convulsed as though struck by lightning, and she let out a shrill scream.

“Ah!”

Ying’er’s face instantly turned deathly pale. Her body flew backward like a kite with its string cut, crashing heavily onto the white jade steps more than ten meters away.

“Pfft!”

Ying’er violently spat out a mouthful of blood, staining the front of her clothes red. She lay on the ground, barely clinging to life.

Ye Xuan’s expression changed drastically. His figure instantly transformed into a blur as he rushed over and gathered Ying’er tightly into his arms.

“Ying’er! How are you?”

Ye Xuan’s face was filled with anxiety as he poured his pure spiritual power into Ying’er without holding back.

After confirming that Ying’er was not in mortal danger, Ye Xuan abruptly turned around.

His eyes burned with towering fury and murderous intent.

He glared daggers at the Azure Emperor and snarled through clenched teeth, “Madam Lu! How dare you! You actually injured my woman on my territory!”

The Azure Emperor was completely dumbfounded.

She looked at her own hand, then at Ying’er, who was vomiting blood in Ye Xuan’s arms. She hurriedly waved her hands as she tried to explain in panic. “No! I didn’t! Husband, you have to believe me! I didn’t use any force. I only wanted to push her away. I never meant to hurt her!”

Ying’er, still lying in Ye Xuan’s embrace, struggled to raise her head. Two trails of tears hung from the corners of her eyes as she weakly clutched his robe.

“Husband… cough, cough… don’t blame Sister Azure Emperor… It’s all my fault… I must have upset her. It’s only right that she teach me a lesson…”

Seeing Ying’er put on such a textbook display of false innocence, the Azure Emperor felt a surge of rage shoot straight to the crown of her head.

Ten thousand years ago, Lu Yanchen had used this very despicable trick, pretending to be pitiful and weak time and time again to frame Ye Xuan in front of her.

And now, this lowly maid actually dared to use the same trick in front of her!

“Shut up! I didn’t hurt you at all! You threw yourself back! You’re framing me!” The Azure Emperor pointed at Ying’er, trembling with rage as her voice grew shrill.

The instant her words fell—

Smack!

A loud, crisp slap rang out abruptly across the enormous white jade plaza.

The entire scene fell deathly silent.

The Azure Emperor covered her swollen left cheek, standing there like a statue.

A thin trickle of blood slowly ran from the corner of her mouth.

Her beautiful eyes widened to their limit, filled with disbelief, bewilderment, and heartbreak so deep it seemed bottomless.

“You… hit me?”

The Azure Emperor’s voice trembled uncontrollably. Tears fell to the ground like beads from a broken string.

“Husband… you actually… hit me for her?”

She broke down completely.

Even when she had committed acts more beastly than human ten thousand years ago, Ye Xuan had only punished her in the end by taking his own life through self-detonation.

This was the first time in her life that she had truly been struck by Ye Xuan.

Ye Xuan slowly lowered his hand. His face was ashen as he looked down at her from above, his eyes devoid of even the slightest trace of pity. There was only bone-deep disgust.

“Azure Emperor, you disgust me.” Ye Xuan’s voice was cold as a blade. “You must apologize to Ying’er!”

The Azure Emperor covered her face and abruptly raised her head, her gaze terrifyingly dark.

“Apologize to her?! I already told you—I never hurt her! She staged this to frame me! Why would you believe this lowly woman instead of me?”

“Shameless!”

Ye Xuan roared, and his overwhelming pressure descended in an instant.

“Ying’er is pure and innocent. She’s only at the Golden Core realm. How could she possibly risk her own life to frame a mighty expert at the peak of the Mahayana realm? The truth is right before your eyes, yet you still dare to deny it!”

Unable to defend herself!

The Azure Emperor finally experienced the suffocating despair contained in those four words.

“Husband, don’t let her deceive you!” The Azure Emperor knelt on the ground, sobbing and aggrieved beyond words as she desperately pleaded with him. “Please believe me, all right? I really didn’t…”

“Believe you?”

Ye Xuan looked at the sobbing Azure Emperor, and the corner of his mouth suddenly curled into an intensely mocking smile.

Lowering his voice, he spoke in a cruel tone that only the two of them could understand.

“Qing Xuanyin, when Lu Yanchen stabbed himself and framed me back then, didn’t you take his side too?”

“What is it? Back then, you thought Lu Yanchen was weak and kind, and would never risk his life to frame me. Why doesn’t that same logic apply to Ying’er now?”

The Azure Emperor’s entire body shuddered violently, as though she had been pierced by ten thousand arrows.

She stared blankly at Ye Xuan’s mocking face. In that instant, all her grievances, fury, and unwillingness transformed into an icy numbness.

She finally understood.

This was revenge.

This was Ye Xuan’s most brutal revenge for all the sins she had committed against him.

He wanted her to personally experience the pain that Ye Xuan had felt back then in that dungeon—being unable to defend himself while watching the person he loved side with someone else.

“I was wrong… Husband, I know I was wrong…”

The Azure Emperor collapsed limply onto the ground, sobbing in utter anguish. The dignity of a ten-thousand-year empress shattered into dust before everyone’s eyes.

“I understand now. I really understand how painful it is! Please, don’t treat me like this…”

“Enough!”

Ye Xuan remained unmoved, his gaze cold and unyielding.

“I’ll say this one last time. Apologize to Ying’er!”

The Azure Emperor gave a bitter laugh and slowly shook her head.

“Husband… you can curse me, beat me, or even kill me right now if you want. Those are grievances between the two of us, and I would accept them gladly.”

The Azure Emperor slowly rose to her feet, a trace of the empress’s pride flashing in her eyes.

“But I will never lower my head to this lying lowlife!”

At those words, Ying’er, hiding in Ye Xuan’s arms, shuddered again, her face growing even paler.

“Husband… don’t force Sister Azure Emperor. She’s the exalted Azure Emperor, after all. She didn’t mean it. Ying’er isn’t upset…”

“Shut up! You hypocritical wretch! I didn’t even touch a single strand of your hair!”

The Azure Emperor was completely enraged. If Ye Xuan had not been shielding the maid, she would have pulverized Ying’er’s bones and scattered her ashes on the spot.

However, in the next second—

Ye Xuan stepped forward and firmly shielded Ying’er behind him.

He looked at the Azure Emperor, and genuine killing intent surfaced in his eyes.

“If you refuse to apologize, you won’t be leaving this place alive.”

The Azure Emperor trembled all over, her voice shrill with despair.

“For her… you want to kill me?”

Ye Xuan did not answer. Slowly, he extended his hand. A golden token engraved with ancient sword patterns flashed into existence in his palm.

It was the Sword God Token of the Sword God Palace!

“Buzz!”

The instant the token appeared, the entire sky above the Sword God Palace changed color!

Countless terrifying primordial sword auras condensed in the void, locking tightly onto the Azure Emperor at the center of the formation!

With but a thought from Ye Xuan, this sword formation—powerful enough to slay a True Immortal—would instantly shred the Azure Emperor into nothingness.

Holding the token aloft, Ye Xuan’s eyes were cold and utterly devoid of human emotion. “I’ll give you ten breaths. Apologize, or die.”