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“Gentler.
Oh, stop that…be gentle! You’re hurting me…
Ow…!”
In the Clear Mind Hall, the Empress Dowager in her dark golden phoenix robe let out a soft string of murmurs. Behind her, a man in white was massaging her shoulders with a careful touch.
But that man wasn’t Chang Xin, it was Li Yuan.
This explained why Xie Wei felt free to be so completely unrestrained. All the lights inside the hall were extinguished. Only the stone lanterns in the outer pavilion, the red lanterns hanging from the eaves, and the stars scattered across the clouds outside offered any glow.
Inside the suffocating darkness of the hall, their figures and eyes were swallowed whole. Yet each of her soft, suppressed, but unmistakably pleasured sighs seemed to throb with the raw craving of a beast. It created the heavy, decadent mood of the palace after sunset, a place steeped in shadow, intrigue, and lust.
Li Yuan said quietly, “I’m using the Mountain Style Vital Blood Secret Manual to treat you. You’ve been trapped for too long in this high-pressure swamp of...



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