Chapter 3 — Tyrant T /An S /At Throughout the Martial Court, Again Calling My Father Father-in-law

"From now on," his voice was very low, so low that only I could hear it, "you don't need to kneel before anyone anymore."

"She is the Queen."

"In this palace, no one has a higher status than her."

He said that last sentence very loudly. Don't tell me. But tell Queen Mother Trieu. Tell Trieu Cam Sat. Also tell everyone present in this hall to hear. Empress Dowager Trieu still tried to maintain a smile on her face, but that smile looked even more unsightly than crying.

"Your Majesty is right. The family is old and can't even remember the rules of the palace anymore."

Tieu Dien did not look at her. He held my hand and led me out. Walking to the palace door, his steps slowed down a bit. The eunuch general immediately bowed and replied: "The slave is present."

"The Queen Mother is old and has been busy with the palace recently. I'm afraid it's too tiring. Cut back... three parts of her palace expenses. Let her rest well."

My whole body trembled. Cut spending? What is the meaning of this matter in the harem, I understand very well. This is a warning. Empress Dowager Trieu's hand tightened on the armrest of the chair, her knuckles turning white. But she did not dare to speak up. No one dared to speak up. Tieu Dien led me back to Phuong Nghi palace. All along the way, he didn't say a word. I also don't dare say a word. At the palace gate, he let go of my hand.

"Go inside and rest. Tomorrow I will ask Ngu Thien Room to bring you the breakfast you like to eat."

I opened my mouth. How does he know what I like to eat for breakfast? I had just opened my mouth, just facing his eyes, but the words that had reached my mouth were swallowed back by me.

"No, nothing. Thank you, Your Majesty."

He said "yeah", then turned around and left. I went back into the palace, closed the door, leaned my back on the door panel, and let out a long breath. Thanh Ha leaned closer to me: "Your Majesty, your Majesty treats you very well." I took a look at her.

"Are you stupid?"

"When he killed people, he spoke so gently and softly." I lowered my voice and spoke very softly, "Lam Thi Lang last month, he even smiled and said 'my love has worked hard', the next day his head was hung on the city wall."

Thanh Ha immediately retracted her neck.

"So the better he treated me, the more scared I became."

I looked seriously at Thanh Ha.

"I'm afraid that one day, he will laugh and say to me 'The Queen has worked hard', and the next day I will no longer be there."

Thanh Ha: "..." Those few days, I lived extremely cautiously, not even daring to breathe loudly. Tieu Dien comes to Phuong Nghi palace every three days, sometimes he only stays for half an hour, sometimes he stays all night. When he comes, he usually just sits there approving the chapter, occasionally raising his head to ask me a question or two.

"What to eat today?"

"Have you walked around Ngu Hoa Garden yet?"

"The color of this outfit is not bad."

Every time that happened, I was so nervous that my whole body stiffened, and my answers were so respectful that I couldn't have been more respectful. He didn't say much more. I thought this was the daily life of a tyrant, first raising prey by his side, waiting for a suitable opportunity before striking. Not until Saturday. Trieu Cam Sat arrived. When Trieu Cam Sat arrived at Phuong Nghi palace, I was sitting and drinking soup. She walked in the door without any ceremony and sat down directly opposite me. Thanh Ha's face immediately turned pale. She was about to open her mouth to say something, but the palace maid standing behind Trieu Cam Sat glared at her and stubbornly went back. Trieu Cam Sat looked at me. From top to bottom, from head to toe, she evaluated me. That look in his eyes was like looking at a cheap, worthless item.

"The Queen." She opened her mouth, a smile in her voice, but that smile made people's backs go cold.

"My concubine came specially to ask for peace."

I put down the bowl of soup in my hand and stood up.

"You don't need to be so polite."

She still didn't get up.

"I just came to see what kind of character he is, who can make His Majesty an exception."

She stopped for a moment.

"It seems like that's all."

My fingers tightened.