Becoming the Villainess: I Dominate the Cultivation Realm with My Wok!-Chapter 410: Empress

It seemed like he had swallowed something hard to digest. When the Second Prince realized the Emperor indeed favored others, there was a ball of rage stuck in his stomach.

When Cen Lizhui and the others arrived at the Cold Palace, the Second Prince wasn’t present, so he hadn’t heard that woman’s story nor did he know the Crown Prince might not be the Empress’s biological child.

Therefore, when the Second Prince noticed the Emperor not only harming the Crown Prince but showing some favoritism towards the Fifth Prince, also under the Empress’s care, he felt it was unfair to the Crown Prince.

He had seen the Crown Prince as a child striving hard for a few words of praise from their father. The Crown Prince used to enjoy playing, but later he forcefully made learning his sole hobby.

Once, the Crown Prince inadvertently found the book he had thrown out the window as a child because he couldn’t study well. It was raining outside, and the book was somewhat damaged. For this reason, the Crown Prince felt immense guilt and personally repaired the book before cherished and preserved it.

It was a common book of a thousand characters, the kind you could buy everywhere.

Despite the Crown Prince’s efforts, sometimes he would secretly ask him if their father disliked him, and wondered why no matter how well he performed, he never received a single compliment.

And the Fifth Prince, having barged into the Emperor’s vital "crime scene," not only was forgiven but thereafter shared a secret with the Emperor?

Seeing the Second Prince’s clenched fists, Cen Lizhui was somewhat puzzled. He had no siblings and was raised by the Sect Leader alone. Occasionally, he’d be teased by the senior uncle, and he wasn’t even sure if there were other disciples in the Immortal Sect.

However, people from the Immortal Sect had a keen sense of the intangible. Cen Lizhui gently patted the Second Prince’s shoulder to calm him down, then looked at the Fifth Prince, "Do you know the entrance to the underground altar?"

The Fifth Prince glanced between the two, "If I tell you, could I be exonerated? I haven’t done anything, at most... at most, I’m guilty of shielding. The wrongdoer is father!"

"Your father loves you so much, and this is how you treat your father?"

Before the Second Prince thought, the words that flashed through his mind were spoken by a very familiar authoritative female voice. The Second Prince naturally turned to greet, "Your son greets the Empress."

Empress’s fleeting disdain was caught by Cen Lizhui. She casually waved her hand, indicating the Second Prince needn’t be formal, and turned her gaze to Cen Lizhui, "Who are you to be so rude upon seeing me?"

Cen Lizhui naturally displayed the practiced calm and composed demeanor of an Immortal Sect Disciple, but his words were unabashedly bold, "What kind of thing are you? Aren’t you afraid of shortening your life?"

The Second Prince was stunned. He looked around, finding Miss Chen wasn’t nearby; Young Master Zui Li managed this effortlessly?

It was clearly Empress’s first time encountering such a formidable challenge. Her already authoritative face showed another layer of thin anger, "Shameless scoundrel, how dare you humiliate my son to such an extent? Guards, seize him for me!" 𝒻𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝘯𝘰𝑣ℯ𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝘮

Cen Lizhui didn’t even move a foot. He merely waved his sleeve, and the Palace Attendants looming behind the Empress could only remain in their looming posture.

Such a scene made the Second Prince hurriedly cover his face. He really didn’t want to laugh, truly.