Meanwhile, Damien was looking at the Rong Royal Palace from afar, not risking it to get near Lily. After all, he wasn't certain if Olivia and Ruthren had cooperated and planned to set up some traps for him in case he tries to make contact with Lily.
Even if he had powerful skills and tricks to disguise himself, he didn't dare to underestimate the things Ruthren might be capable of as well, especially since he was in cahoots with Yohr. Who knows if he might have some tricks to catch him if he tried to enter the royal palace.
However, that didn't stop Damien from ordering Tristen to make Olivia pay on his behalf and also extract the information he needed.
Damien didn't have any plans to kill her for now, but that didn't mean he couldn't make her pay in other worse ways.
'Lily, just wait…soon you will be free from all your enemies…'
—
In the Rong Royal Palace, Olivia was having a good time in her luxurious bathroom, immersing her body except for her head in the fresh and fragrant lotus water while drinking costly wine and dreaming about her future prospects, especially after selling away Lily.
She felt as if time was passing too slowly and wished she could fast forward the next few months and finally wrest control of the empire away from the Rong Ancestor and Lily.
She knew that even if she was the empress, she still didn't have complete control and power over the empire because of the presence of the Rong Ancestor and Lily. There were still too many people in power that were loyal to these two.
Otherwise, she could have made Lily's life here a living hell.
*Creak*
Suddenly, Olivia became startled upon hearing the door of the bathroom open and leaned her forward to see who it was and was about to shout, thinking it was some stupid maid when the bathroom suddenly began to fill with smoke.
Olivia pulled her brows together as she tried to look through the smoke with a confused expression but was surprised to realize that she couldn't.
Before she could even wonder what was going on, she suddenly felt a stinging sensation on her chest and a hand grabbing her mouth from behind!
"MMMH!!" Olivia's eyes widened as she saw a needle being inserted into her chest and realized that some intruder or assassin got inside without her knowing it!
She immediately tried to gather her ethereal energy to blast away the intruder, but her eyes widened in horror when she sensed all her ethereal energy receding back into her ethereal core.
This was a phenomenon every cultivator dreaded since this meant that their cultivation was sealed!
It didn't take much to figure out that the intruder stabbed the needle into her chest to seal her cultivation.
But this only made her panic even more as she felt completely powerless and grabbed his hand to push him away. Still, she was unable to budge his hand in the slightest, making her realize that her efforts were futile the moment her cultivation got sealed, especially if the other party had a powerful cultivation.
"Shhh…don't panic, Your Highness. I am here to have a small talk with you," A sneering tone of a young man sounded from behind, and to her shock, she saw the man's face as he crouched beside her, his arms resting on the bathtub and even removed his hand away from Olivia's mouth.
"Why look so shocked? It's me. Tristen. And I am here for my sexy empress," Tristen said with a wink as he caressed her smooth cheeks with a shifty smile.
"P-Prince Tristen?! Wha…What are you doing here?? How did you get inside?" Olivia quickly covered her chest with her arms in a defensive manner as her back pressed against the bathtub.
She was completely baffled by Tristen appearing before her and even talking to her in such a disrespectful way, and the way he was looking at her made her feel vulnerable.
She had no idea how he slipped past all her guards and maids to get here. Even if Tristen was coming from the powerful Gale Empire, surely he can't get here on his own without raising any alarms.
Tristen sighed as he smiled, "Don't look so scared. It doesn't really matter how I got here but why. I am just here to offer a proposal to you, and if you agree, then I can guarantee that your future will be very colorful, especially with my empire backing you. But if you don't, you will lose everything, including your fancy bathtub."
Olivia was still an empress, so she was able to quickly calm down and collect her thoughts as she asked, "What proposal are you talking about? What is the meaning of all this? Why are you doing this to me?"
Tristen shrugged as he said, "Honestly, I don't really care, but an angel appeared in my dream and said that I had to do this. So here I am. Well…" Tristen took out a letter as he continued, "...does this trigger any memories? Hm?"
Olivia's eyes shook and widened when she saw a brown letter with her red seal on the end of the letter. She didn't even have to read the contents to know what it contained.
"Ah, you do remember. This is just a copy of the original, which I have kept somewhere safe for safekeeping. But you do understand what will happen if the original letter goes public, right?" Tristen said with a cunning smile, making Olivia feel as if the devil was smiling at her with the letter that could destroy her future.
She knew that the letter was proof that she had hired an assassin to kill Lily's mother. And no matter which empire, conspiring against a royal member was heavily punishable, and even the entire subjects, elders, and ministers would scorn and abandon her if this goes public.
A ruler that had lost all trust was no ruler at all. If the letter never went public, then nobody would care, even the ministers and elders who might know about this. Conspiracies were, after all, a common occurrence in every royal or imperial system. But they were all only well and good as long as nobody had any proof.
But if the entire empire knows, then it was a different thing altogether.
Olivia had lived in fear for a few years after losing this letter, but when nothing happened for a long while, she even forgot about it. But she never expected it would come back to haunt her like this.
She had no idea why Tristen was suddenly acting against her when she did nothing to offend him or his empire but right now, she knew he wouldn't tell her why.
And so she swallowed her saliva and asked in a taut voice, "What…What do you want?"
Meanwhile, Damien was looking at the Rong Royal Palace from afar, not risking it to get near Lily. After all, he wasn't certain if Olivia and Ruthren had cooperated and planned to set up some traps for him in case he tries to make contact with Lily.
Even if he had powerful skills and tricks to disguise himself, he didn't dare to underestimate the things Ruthren might be capable of as well, especially since he was in cahoots with Yohr. Who knows if he might have some tricks to catch him if he tried to enter the royal palace.
However, that didn't stop Damien from ordering Tristen to make Olivia pay on his behalf and also extract the information he needed.
Damien didn't have any plans to kill her for now, but that didn't mean he couldn't make her pay in other worse ways.
'Lily, just wait…soon you will be free from all your enemies…'
—
In the Rong Royal Palace, Olivia was having a good time in her luxurious bathroom, immersing her body except for her head in the fresh and fragrant lotus water while drinking costly wine and dreaming about her future prospects, especially after selling away Lily.
She felt as if time was passing too slowly and wished she could fast forward the next few months and finally wrest control of the empire away from the Rong Ancestor and Lily.
She knew that even if she was the empress, she still didn't have complete control and power over the empire because of the presence of the Rong Ancestor and Lily. There were still too many people in power that were loyal to these two.
Otherwise, she could have made Lily's life here a living hell.
*Creak*
Suddenly, Olivia became startled upon hearing the door of the bathroom open and leaned her forward to see who it was and was about to shout, thinking it was some stupid maid when the bathroom suddenly began to fill with smoke.
Olivia pulled her brows together as she tried to look through the smoke with a confused expression but was surprised to realize that she couldn't.
Before she could even wonder what was going on, she suddenly felt a stinging sensation on her chest and a hand grabbing her mouth from behind!
"MMMH!!" Olivia's eyes widened as she saw a needle being inserted into her chest and realized that some intruder or assassin got inside without her knowing it!
She immediately tried to gather her ethereal energy to blast away the intruder, but her eyes widened in horror when she sensed all her ethereal energy receding back into her ethereal core.
This was a phenomenon every cultivator dreaded since this meant that their cultivation was sealed!
It didn't take much to figure out that the intruder stabbed the needle into her chest to seal her cultivation.
But this only made her panic even more as she felt completely powerless and grabbed his hand to push him away. Still, she was unable to budge his hand in the slightest, making her realize that her efforts were futile the moment her cultivation got sealed, especially if the other party had a powerful cultivation.
"Shhh…don't panic, Your Highness. I am here to have a small talk with you," A sneering tone of a young man sounded from behind, and to her shock, she saw the man's face as he crouched beside her, his arms resting on the bathtub and even removed his hand away from Olivia's mouth.
"Why look so shocked? It's me. Tristen. And I am here for my sexy empress," Tristen said with a wink as he caressed her smooth cheeks with a shifty smile.
"P-Prince Tristen?! Wha…What are you doing here?? How did you get inside?" Olivia quickly covered her chest with her arms in a defensive manner as her back pressed against the bathtub.
She was completely baffled by Tristen appearing before her and even talking to her in such a disrespectful way, and the way he was looking at her made her feel vulnerable.
She had no idea how he slipped past all her guards and maids to get here. Even if Tristen was coming from the powerful Gale Empire, surely he can't get here on his own without raising any alarms.
Tristen sighed as he smiled, "Don't look so scared. It doesn't really matter how I got here but why. I am just here to offer a proposal to you, and if you agree, then I can guarantee that your future will be very colorful, especially with my empire backing you. But if you don't, you will lose everything, including your fancy bathtub."
Olivia was still an empress, so she was able to quickly calm down and collect her thoughts as she asked, "What proposal are you talking about? What is the meaning of all this? Why are you doing this to me?"
Tristen shrugged as he said, "Honestly, I don't really care, but an angel appeared in my dream and said that I had to do this. So here I am. Well…" Tristen took out a letter as he continued, "...does this trigger any memories? Hm?"
Olivia's eyes shook and widened when she saw a brown letter with her red seal on the end of the letter. She didn't even have to read the contents to know what it contained.
"Ah, you do remember. This is just a copy of the original, which I have kept somewhere safe for safekeeping. But you do understand what will happen if the original letter goes public, right?" Tristen said with a cunning smile, making Olivia feel as if the devil was smiling at her with the letter that could destroy her future.
She knew that the letter was proof that she had hired an assassin to kill Lily's mother. And no matter which empire, conspiring against a royal member was heavily punishable, and even the entire subjects, elders, and ministers would scorn and abandon her if this goes public.
A ruler that had lost all trust was no ruler at all. If the letter never went public, then nobody would care, even the ministers and elders who might know about this. Conspiracies were, after all, a common occurrence in every royal or imperial system. But they were all only well and good as long as nobody had any proof.
But if the entire empire knows, then it was a different thing altogether.
Olivia had lived in fear for a few years after losing this letter, but when nothing happened for a long while, she even forgot about it. But she never expected it would come back to haunt her like this.
She had no idea why Tristen was suddenly acting against her when she did nothing to offend him or his empire but right now, she knew he wouldn't tell her why.
And so she swallowed her saliva and asked in a taut voice, "What…What do you want?"
