"The matter of the Empress Dowager." Lin Zhi coldly interrupted the graceful lady's sadness: "I don't know, and I don't want to know!"
He waved his hand, and Lu An slowly retreated into the shadows with the baby in his arms, out of sight again.
The Empress Dowager withdrew her gaze and closed her eyes. When she opened them again, her eyes were already cold and half of the weakness she had just seen was gone.
"You can say whatever you want," she said.
"What I did today was to remind you that Xichu belongs to the Duanmu clan. This was also my oath when I became the Queen Mother."
The Empress Dowager stiffened as she recalled the distant past, unable to hide the hatred in her eyes.
She glared at Lin Zhi as if looking at a heinous enemy: "You don't need to remind Sect Leader Lin of the Ai family's affairs! Don't forget your identity!"
Lin Zhi raised his eyebrows, and there was a treacherous darkness in his eyes: "I have already told your Majesty that my life is not important. If you like, you can take it at any time. But!"
His breath was slightly condensed, and there was a coldness rolling around him, like ice, like the sharp spring cold. It was inhumanely cold.
"If you have thoughts that you shouldn't have, I will never forgive you!"
The Empress Dowager was forced by the murderous look in Lin Zhi's eyes, and her eyes shrank slightly: "Ai Jia... don't understand what you are talking about?"
"Don't you understand?" Lin Zhi curled his lips with a cruel and bloodthirsty smile: "If interrogating a Xiangxiu is not enough, I don't mind asking your Majesty to watch the torture a few more times."
The Empress Dowager turned pale for a moment, and she felt sick when she thought of the soft and rotten flesh that had just been removed from the bones and joints and crawled on the ground like an earthworm.
"I wonder who the Empress Dowager would be interested in interrogating?" Lin Zhi half-squinted his eyes, which were as dark as the coldness of Jiuyou Hell: "How about Baili Qingyan?"
Fear rose in the eyes of the Empress Dowager, her delicately made-up cheeks were as gray as paper, and her whole body could not stop trembling: "Lin Zhi, how dare you?!"
Many emotions surged in her eyes, and finally turned into a cruel and sinister threat.
"What don't I dare to do?" Lin Zhi's expression was calm and cold.
The Empress Dowager's chest rose and fell violently, and her eyes gradually became filled with regret: "How could you touch Qingyan? You clearly know that you are...are..."
"Please be careful what you say!"
Lin Zhi frowned. The sudden burst of momentum made the Empress Dowager smell the bloodthirsty cruelty. For a moment, she was so panicked that she couldn't control herself. The graceful posture he had deliberately shown fell apart at this moment.
"If Old Chu loses even one hair, I can wipe out the entire Baili family. You can wait and see, Madam!"
The Empress Dowager's chest rose and fell violently, and many emotions surged in her eyes, turning her eyes as scarlet as blood. She was like a trapped animal that was extremely angry.
Lin Zhi's expression was always calm, he held the tea cup steadily in his hand, and his whole body was filled with a tranquility that could not be spilled.
There was no anger, no anxiety, no gloominess or harshness in his eyes. He never had too many emotions about things that didn't concern people or things.
The Queen Mother's hatred crashed into his indifference, like a heavy punch falling into a pile of cotton, leaving no trace behind.
Her pupils shrank sharply, and her body became rickety for a moment: "You just... hate me so much?"
Lin Zhihe said: "The Empress Dowager, please don't take yourself too seriously."
"What do you want to know?" The Empress Dowager took a deep breath and finally compromised.
Her face was as pale as paper, as if she had experienced an unbearable weight in life: "You ask, I answer. As long as... you and Qing Yan can get along well, you..."
"Where did Baili Yunsheng go?" Lin Zhi raised his eyebrows, interrupting the Empress Dowager's tenderness.
Undisguised disgust burst out from the depths of his phoenix eyes, and he stared coldly at the woman in front of him: "Don't try to challenge my patience!"