29: Lu Xiaoming in despair

Inside Zhaoyue Hall.

A mess met the eye, and a pungent odor wafted through the air.

Lu Xiaoming’s jade-like body lay sprawled out, listless and drained to the point of being raw, which was enough to show that last night's battle had been equally tragic.

In his sleep, he dreamed that he had dominated the Empress, making her pregnant with his child while simultaneously walking into her heart as a matter of course. He was surrounded by an intense sense of happiness.

Just then, a basin of icy water was splashed onto his face.

"Hmm?"

Lu Xiaoming opened his eyes dizzily.

What met his gaze was not the Empress's pitying tenderness, but four burly, coarse-faced female strangers. They were bare-chested and surrounded the man like beasts choosing their prey.

"Ah—"

Lu Xiaoming screamed in terror, "Who are you? What do you want to do?"

"Imperial Husbands Father, you don't even recognize us? We sisters are soldiers of the Heavenly Wolf Guard!" the leading burly woman said lewdly, her greedy gaze wandering over the man's body.

The Heavenly Wolf Guard was the military elite responsible for guarding the Imperial Palace.

The few of them had been on patrol when they heard Lu Xiaoming's soul-hooking moans and were drawn over.

Coincidentally, a cold wind blew in, feeling quite chilly!

Only then did Lu Xiaoming notice his scantily clad situation. He frantically hugged his chest, curled into a ball, and cursed, "You lowly slaves, worse than pigs or dogs! How dare you trespass into the bedchamber? This Palace wants your heads!"

Hearing this, the women were not afraid; instead, they looked at each other and burst into loud laughter.

"Imperial Husbands Father, you probably haven't figured out your current situation yet!"

"That's right, last night, you were the one begging us to take you!"

Another woman reached out directly to grope the man's thigh and laughed, "Last night you were like a male dog in heat, why have you become so fierce now?"

"Don't touch this Palace! This Palace will chop off your filthy hands!"

Lu Xiaoming's face turned deathly pale.

He suddenly realized what had actually happened last night.

The last thing in his memory was the Empress's indifferent back. In other words, the person who had shared the bed with him was not the Empress at all. So, who was it?

A terrifying thought emerged.

Lu Xiaoming abruptly looked at his right arm. The essence-guarding sand, which he had bitterly kept for the Empress for three years, had now blossomed into a seductive plum blossom.

Tears gushed out.

He wasn't suffering because he had lost his virginity, but purely because he was worried about his future.

He could foresee that the Empress would never allow a piece of 'worn-out shoes' to remain the Great Xia Imperial Husband.

"You... you have such audacity! This Palace... This Palace is Her Majesty's man. You will be beheaded and your nine generations executed!" His voice trembled.

The leading woman didn't care at all. Ignoring the man's resistance, she forcibly pulled him into her arms and toyed with him wantonly, chuckling, "Little darling, it's precisely because you're Her Majesty's man that playing with you is so exciting!"

"You'd better think clearly. If Her Majesty finds out, we sisters only have these lowly lives to lose—it's nothing more than life or death. But your position as Imperial Husband, your Lu family..."

"Don't say another word!"

Lu Xiaoming's body shook with fear.

The four women looked at each other and smiled. They knew they had successfully grasped the man's weakness. Their risky move of taking him away and defiling him last night had been the right play!

"We can stop talking, but first, you have to let us sisters have some fun!"

The four women forcibly pushed Lu Xiaoming down and pounced on him with lewd smiles. "As long as we sisters are happy, Her Majesty will never know about this!"

Facing these women who were like wolves and tigers, Lu Xiaoming felt a face full of humiliation. He could only turn his head away and silently endure all the devastation.

He had been pampered since childhood, regarded as the pearl in the palm by the Lu family. He considered himself noble and precious, yet he was being toyed with by these lowly slaves he looked down upon from the bottom of his heart... "Your Majesty, you were looking for me?"

Lu Xiaoming, wearing a dignified and grand purple robe, knelt before the Empress.

After meticulous grooming, he had wiped away all the stains. Except for the faint traces of tears at the corners of his eyes, no other clues could be seen.

"The medicinal wine from yesterday—was it an aphrodisiac you gave me?"

The Empress stood with her hands behind her back. She suddenly turned around, her golden eyes staring majestically, her voice cold. "Lu Xiaoming, you have quite the nerve, daring to give me such a filthy thing to drink!"

"Your Majesty, This servant meant well!"

Lu Xiaoming was full of grievances but dared not show them. "The medicinal wine indeed has the effect of nourishing the Primal Yin and enhancing the Physique, which is why I dared to offer it to Your Majesty. As for the aphrodisiac effect, This servant truly did not know!"

Hearing this.

Much of the coldness in Mu Xiyan's golden eyes dissipated.

After Su Quan's emotions stabilized, she was not only not angry but felt a sense of joy in her heart.

If not for Lu Xiaoming's 'assist,' she didn't know how long the two of them would have had to wait before having a substantive Breakthrough in their relationship.

"Very well, considering it's your first offense, I shall spare you this time. If there is a next time, you can give up your position as Imperial Husband!" Mu Xiyan's tone was calm.

However, it made Lu Xiaoming's vision go dark, as if he had fallen into an ice cellar.

The position of Imperial Husband was of pivotal importance not only to him but also to the Lu family. It could be said that the Lu family's current glory relied entirely on his status as the Imperial Husband.

Once stripped of it, the consequences were unthinkable.

But since Her Majesty had spoken, he could only swallow his bitterness. "This servant... understands!"

He didn't dare to blame Her Majesty, so he could only vent all his resentment on Su Quan!

That's right, it's all that vixen's fault!

Whenever he thought about the Immortal Pills and miraculous medicines his mother had spent the family fortune on, only for them to become a wedding gift for that vixen.

While that vixen was sharing the bed with the Empress, he was being defiled by four coarse women. His heart was filled with towering hatred, and his remaining sanity was gradually being eroded.

A crazy plan emerged!

Watching the man's departing back, Mu Xiyan's beautiful face remained undisturbed.

The Lu family had, after all, performed great feats for her. Although she had given them plenty of compensation over the years, it was still not easy to directly strip Lu Xiaoming of his Imperial Husband title.

This time, she just wanted to give the Lu family a warning, and then pick a suitable time to promote Su Quan to the position.

Not just for herself, but for the child of the two of them... in her womb!