She Holds the World After Being Reborn
Chapter 509 - 508: Yan Wanqing Furiously Scolds Qin Jun, Enraging the Old Man to Death

Chapter 509: Chapter 508: Yan Wanqing Furiously Scolds Qin Jun, Enraging the Old Man to Death

Qin Jun’s words boomed with finality.

The octogenarian, flushed with rage from his verbal tirade, still not satisfied, kicked over the charcoal brazier on the ground. The burning coals, glowing red-hot, tumbled across the floor, casting sparks in the direction of Yan Wanqing!

"Your Highness!" Cong Ge cried out, rushing forward to shield Yan Wanqing, but got her own calf scorched by the coals, burning a large hole in her skirt in an instant and blistering her fair skin severely.

"Qin Jun!" Yan Wanqing supported Cong Ge, her voice ice cold as she fixed her gaze on the elderly man: "You dare!"

"Miss, your servant is alright!" Cong Ge, fearing Yan Wanqing would get into a conflict with Qin Jun over her and thus delay the important matter of vindicating the Crown Prince, quickly tugged at her sleeve.

Yan Wanqing narrowed her eyes at Qin Jun, seeing a self-satisfied smugness in his eyes because of his recent action, her tongue unconsciously scraping against the canine tooth in her mouth.

Did he think that she was at his mercy?

"Go to the carriage and get some medicine to treat it," Yan Wanqing instructed Cong Ge.

Cong Ge’s face was deathly pale, her eyes shifting among the three people in the room. She shook her head: "Your servant won’t leave."

With her present, Qin Jun still dared to kick over the brazier; without her, who knows what excessive things he would do.

"Go now!" Yan Wanqing’s voice cooled further.

Cong Ge’s heart seized up: "...Yes." It was an order; she had to obey.

After Cong Ge left.

The room was eerily quiet.

The coals on the floor had turned black, emitting wisps of blue smoke.

Upon seeing this, Yan Wanqing’s lips curled into a smile, before she let out a chuckle.

"What are you laughing at, enchantress?" Zhang Quanzhong scolded loudly nearby.

Yan Wanqing’s gaze sharpened, and she sent a palm wind his way with a sweep of her sleeve.

Zhang Quanzhong was immediately knocked to the ground, crying out in pain.

"What right do you have to shout in front of me?" Yan Wanqing sneered, her eyes filled with undisguised murderous intent: "For committing the crime of insubordination, you truly have a death wish."

"Enchantress! Even after what you’ve done, you won’t allow people to curse you? I curse you, enchantress!"

"A damnable enchantress!"

"A destructive scourge upon the nation!"

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Zhang Quanzhong’s curses became uglier and uglier.

Qin Jun stood aside, his gaze as cold and indifferent as if he were deaf.

Yan Wanqing stepped toward Zhang Quanzhong, bent down, and grabbed him by the neck with one hand, slowly lifting him into the air.

She looked at Qin Jun.

At that moment, Zhang Quanzhong finally couldn’t curse anymore, his limbs flailing helplessly in the air.

The room regained its tranquility.

"Whatever you say about Yan Wanqing, I truly do not care. But my father is my father, and I am myself. He was loyal to the empire and worked diligently all his life, only to be tragically schemed against at the end. He and all the soldiers and civilians at Governor’s Office Pass fought to the death, only to have no remains left behind. The person who schemed against him was the former Emperor." Yan Wanqing, recalling the past, smiled with derision at the corners of her mouth: "Qin, you are well-informed. Do you choose to turn a blind eye to these things...?"

"At the age of twenty, I’ve spent a quarter of my life fighting on the battlefield and striving for Dawei! Yet the former Emperor bestowed upon me the Thousand Mechanisms Poison, destroying my martial skills, confining me to lingering illness in bed all day. Do you have any idea what those years were like for me?!"

"In times of peace, you scholars pontificate and sing of a harmonious golden age, and in times of turmoil, you castigate with your pens, always aiming your accusations at me! Calling me an enchantress, blaming me for the nation’s calamities! Qin Jun! As a three-time senior official, you also think the chaos of war starts with a woman—how narrow-minded! If your three thousand disciples are all as narrow-minded, when they enter Imperial Court as officials, won’t they be more of a scourge than I, Yan Wanqing, ever was?"

Seeing Qin Jun’s shoulders trembling: "Stop your nonsensical babbling!"

Yan Wanqing sneered coldly and didn’t stop for a moment.

"What’s the matter, is what this Empress said wrong?! In times of chaos, hegemonic heroes and enchantresses arise, but more so are you lot, who can only conceal troubles in a show of peace! Compared to the former two, you deserve death even more!"

"You’re not wrong, this Empress has stockpiled grain, manufactured weapons, and even raised Dead Soldiers in secret, yet the Crown Prince is well aware of all this! I, Yan Wanqing, have the literary grace to stabilize the country and the martial prowess to pacify the world. Among the countless men, how many are worthy of me? Not to mention the world of Dawei, if he wishes, I could even make overseas conquests happen for him."

Her delicate hand exerted a slight force, and her peach blossom eyes were filled with rampant killing intent. _{f(r)eew(e)bnovel.(c)o(m)}

"If with all this, this Empress can be considered an enchantress who brings disaster upon the nation, then what should you be called, you bunch of old fools who know nothing but to consume the Imperial Court’s salary?"

"Qin Jun, oh Qin Jun, you’ve been scheming for so long for your granddaughter Qin Erya, from Princess Wuyang to this late-night invitation for a talk, aiming for what is well known to all, yet this Empress dared to come today with the resolution that both fish and net could be destroyed!"

Zhang Quanzhong, held in her hand, now had the complexion of a pig’s liver. He looked toward Qin Jun with a desperate desire for survival in his eyes.

But Qin Jun chose to ignore him.

"Back then in the Golden Throne Hall, had this Empress wished it, Dawei could have changed its ruler, but this Empress simply did not desire it. Now returning to the capital, I tried to avoid conflict not once, twice, but thrice, yet you’ve cornered me so there’s no escape! You really are overstepping your bounds!"

No sooner had her voice fallen.

Her eyelids did not even flutter.

A sound of breaking bones, chilling to the bone, Zhang Quanzhong, previously flailing wildly, hung in the air like deadwood, to be finally tossed to the ground by Yan Wanqing as if he were a sack of potatoes.

She strode toward Qin Jun.

"Don’t be afraid, Elder Qin," the face under her hood was as pale as a sheet of paper.

A ghostly smile appeared on her face.

"You are the Crown Prince’s teacher; this Empress won’t harm you. However, a wise man must consider the consequences of his actions. The Qin Family did not learn from last time’s lesson; I hope after tonight, Elder Qin will give it some serious thought."

At that moment, moonlight broke through the clouds, making her eyes shine with an outflow of light.

"What is meant by ’a mantis trying to stop a chariot, a mayfly shaking a tree.’"

She reached past Qin Jun’s body, took the red jar from the table, and placed it into his palm.

"There is only one antidote, concerning Miss Qin, I hope Elder Qin keeps it safe and secure."

Having said that, she turned around and opened both doors wide.

Letting the moonlight pour down completely, casting her long shadow on the ground.

"To you, the position of Empress of Dawei seems supreme, but to me, Yan Wanqing, the world is within easy reach."

"You are short-sighted, still clinging to those maxims of male superiority while the outside world has already undergone earth-shaking changes."

She seemed to be speaking to Qin Jun, and yet it was as if she was also speaking to herself.

Her voice was distant, the moonlight, like water, she lifted her foot, ready to leave.

But then she heard a loud rebuke from behind: "Stop right there!"

Yan Wanqing glanced sideways.

"Does Elder Qin have something else to say?"

"Yan Wanqing, if you were a man, you would be the foremost under the heavens, but as a woman, you dare to dream the foolish dream of challenging the world, truly shameless! The Crown Prince is still young and can’t distinguish true from false, easily misled by your honeyed words to open up the Imperial Court to women. In my life, my conscience is clear, the only shame is failing to protect the Xiao Family’s great kindness and the Dawei, and failing to protect the Crown Prince, this is the lifelong stain of this old man!"

"Since you are so obstinately ignorant, this old man can only demonstrate my resolve with death!"

Yan Wanqing’s pupils suddenly contracted.

"Elder Qin!"