In the Imperial Palace on the Qin Continent, Empress Li was seated in the garden pavilion. She took a sip of the jade liquid from her teacup, one that was as thin as a cicada’s wing, before placing it back down. “Can you still not figure it out?”

Li Kuanglan was clad in a man’s attire. She sat across the Empress, keeping her silence in apparent displeasure.

Empress Li laughed. “What do you not understand, tell me.”

Li Kuanglan’s expression looked odd from the mixture of fury and embarrassment. “Y-You’ve never even seen him before. Why would you do this?”

Empress Li glanced at her with a spurious smile. “It worked out, didn’t it?”

Li Kuanglan lowered her eyes with a blush, but she was still quite stubborn with her words. “That doesn’t mean it was the right thing to do.”

“Our Jingtang Li Clan rose to power due to our divination powers. If a freak like Lin Xitang hadn’t appeared, our family would’ve monopolized the Empire’s divination path. I used our family heirloom for this, how can the results be anything...