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At dusk, a strand of crimson twilight crept through the window, casting its glow on people's backs.

Lu Chen leaned against Wu Junwan's jade-like back, their fingers interlocked, with Wu Junwan's hands placed on either side of her head.

After a long silence between them, Wu Junwan finally broke the quiet, "This palace is quite curious, Prince, what kind of Cultivation Technique do you practice?"

After being tossed around for so long, Wu Junwan had finally come to her senses, and she had realized the terror of Lu Chen.

Not only did Lu Chen possess the means to heal people's wounds, he could even help someone enhance their skill. He had infused her with a considerable amount of skill, enabling her to break through and become a Grandmaster.

Such methods, she had never heard of before.

Lu Chen said with a smile, "I've already told you, you must think of yourself as the Empress."

Hearing this, Wu Junwan thought of the events that had transpired from last night until just now, and she snorted coldly, "The Prince really has a particularly nasty taste!"

She had finally understood why Lu Chen had prepared the Phoenix Robe for her and treated her like the Empress. This young man simply had a peculiar fetish for the identity of the Empress. It was no wonder that last night Lu Chen had told her of his interest in the Empress.

"Prince, are you really not afraid such actions will ruin your reputation?"

Lu Chen buried his face in the disheveled hair of Wu Junwan and took a deep breath before saying, "Haven't I already said that my reputation can't get any worse? There is no room for it to decrease any further."

"If you go to the main streets of Yan County now and ask anyone about my lechery, they will all surely say I am fond of beautiful women."

"For someone as dignified, elegant, and mature in beauty like Your Majesty, it's quite normal to be taken by me."

Hearing this, Wu Junwan had nothing left to say. Lu Chen's attitude was now that of a dead pig not fearing scalding water, completely indifferent.

Wu Junwan said coldly, "To fancy even me, a woman over a decade your senior, your tastes are indeed unique, Prince."

Lu Chen whispered in her ear, "So what if you are over a decade older? I like a mature woman like you."

Wu Junwan fell silent.

What had happened, had happened; whatever she said or did was of no use now.

And she hadn't really suffered a loss; at most, she had compromised morally since she had not yet married and her purity had been destroyed.

But for someone like her who valued power, the purity of the body wasn't really worth anything. In the royal family, some princesses played around much more than she did, not knowing how many male consorts they had nurtured; even those married princesses who wouldn't let their princess's husbands share the bed would have other men serve them.

She'd just consider it being served by a male consort for a day and a night.

The older one gets, the lower the sense of morality becomes, and Wu Junwan was not greatly constrained in her heart.

Key to her was that, for the first time, she had experienced those special sensations, and her Realm had even been lifted to the Grandmaster Realm because of it—something she had never anticipated at the beginning.

For someone in her high position who favored the tally of gains and losses, if the benefits were considered, sleeping with the North Prince was a sure gain without loss.

Seeing that Wu Junwan had fallen silent, Lu Chen blew a breath into her ear and then asked, "What's the matter, why have you suddenly gone quiet?"

Wu Junwan said, "What does the Prince plan to do with me now?"

Lu Chen asked in puzzlement, "Deal with you? Why should there be any need to deal with you?"

Wu Junwan said, "Prince, daring to do such things to me, a hostage, proves that the Prince has completely disregarded Great Wu. It also indicates that the Prince is ready to annex Great Wu."

"If the Prince doesn't want this incident leaked, there are only two options: place me under house arrest to prevent me from meeting with Great Wu's people, or kill me in secret."

Lu Chen snorted with laughter, then responded, "You have quite the imagination. How could I possibly do such a thing to my own woman?"

"No matter what happens in the future, and regardless of whether North Country and Great Wu will go to war again, your destiny is to bear my children here in the North Country."

At this point, Lu Chen gently bit Wu Junwan's ear, then continued, "I am very fond of your body; how could I possibly bear to kill you?"

Upon hearing the words of this young man, Wu Junwan felt a strange sensation within her. She didn't know what it was, but it made her feel complicated; she was sad, yet there was a tinge of joy.

Wu Junwan chuckled and said, "So the rumors about you have always been true. You really are a lecher. It's laughable that I once thought your lechery was just a front for the bigger picture."

"Has the Prince never considered that throughout the history of great dynasties, lecherous emperors almost always come to a bad end?"

People usually associate lechery with "incompetence," so in their minds, lecherous emperors often lead to the downfall of their nations, or they lose their grip on power and the country ends up in chaos.

At least in the eyes of the current emperors, none seem to be lecherous. Of course, that was just Wu Junwan's opinion.

At this moment, Lu Chen said with a smile, "There is no emperor in this world who isn't lecherous. To be precise, there are no men who aren't. Look at the emperors of the great dynasties now; which one doesn't have dozens, if not hundreds, of women in his harem?"

"Take your Emperor father, for example. Would you dare say he's not lecherous? If he weren't, could he have fathered so many children?"

Wu Junwan wanted to refute Lu Chen's words, but found herself speechless as the words reached her lips.

Lu Chen continued, "You want to be Empress so badly only for the power that title holds. Haven't you thought about what you would do once you had that power?"

"Once you become a ruler, do you intend to spend your life dealing with state affairs in the study and never indulge in anything else, pouring all your energy into governance?"

"I'm not such a selfless person. I desire power for my own personal wants. Now that North Country has defeated Great Wu under my leadership, and brought you, a beautiful woman, back to North Country, how could I play the gentleman and not enjoy the fruits of victory? Junwan, you must not take me for a saint."

"If your father, the Emperor, had defeated a country and brought back their princess or empress, can you honestly claim he wouldn't lay a finger on them?"

Wu Junwan had no response.

Because Lu Chen was right; her father, the Emperor, might seem to have dedicated his life to war and expanding his territory, but he too frequently added the vanquished nations' beautiful women to his harem.

Though he appeared diligent in governance, it was not possible that his sole focus was for the benefit of the Great Wu Dynasty.

Seeing that Wu Junwan had fallen silent, Lu Chen gave a faint smile, then said, "I won't stop the people of Great Wu from seeing you, but I hope you understand that someday the great dynasties will unify, and only in the North Prince Mansion can your dream of empresshood continue."

"Did you not experience the joy of being an empress last night? There are not many women in this world who can be personally attended to by me."

On hearing Lu Chen's words, Wu Junwan, who had been silent, scoffed coldly, "The Prince has quite a sense of humor. Claiming possession over my body as though you have drawn the short straw."

Seeing that Wu Junwan had spoken again, Lu Chen said with a smile, "I never said I'm at a loss. After all, it's the first time I've met a woman whose cultivation skill is sealed yet can still actively control her meridians and tense up her body."

With that remark, Wu Junwan, who had just calmed down, suddenly felt an overwhelming sense of shame. She originally thought that she could stop Lu Chen with this tactic, but ironically, she ended up accommodating the man.

This "dog" isn't meant as an insult—it truly made no difference between him and an animal. She had lived for over thirty years, and although she knew something about the affairs of men and women, she had never heard of a man like Lu Chen.