Jiang Yeqian completely ignored the empress' sudden reddening face. He began speaking some truths with a livid face.
"You keep saying that I'm not allowed to call myself 'humble servant', but you've never forgotten your status as an empress.
"You keep using the royal plural!
"You told me not to call myself 'humble servant', not to care so much about the differences between an empress and a servant—but you've always prided yourself as the high and mighty empress.
"It's not I who cares about the differences between an empress and a servant. The one who really cares about status is you!"
The empress listened to his raspy and pleasant voice, speaking words that reprimanded her. Her head was buzzing. "I…" Why was he reprimanding her? How manly!
"You deliberately brought up that Li Ruoxuan and I were at Nanfeng Pavilion just now!
"You were not trying to find out what Li Ruoxuan was thinking, you were trying to test me. You wanted to see if I would do it for Qi Qingyao…
