Yan Xiu did not speak. Some words didn't need to be said. He believed that Fang Zhengzhi could do it as well, despite the fact that it was something almost impossible to achieve.

"Unfounded trust. You are all just unsatisfied with this result," The woman spoke once again. Following which, she cast her gaze in the direction of the palace and said, "It has been half an hour, I should be going."

"Wait a minute!" Fang Zhengzhi's voice rose again, "You have not answered me. Why would you not stop Ping Yang despite knowing that she would die!"

"Why should I?" The woman then retracted her steps and cast a menacingly glance at Ping Yang, "She should not be alive. She shouldn't even be born in the first place."

"Shouldn't be born?" Fang Zhengzhi frowned as he said.

"That's right, her birth was a mistake. What I am doing is to merely correct the mistake made decades ago. It might not be a bad thing for her," The woman said.

"Correcting a mistake? If I am not wrong, you are merely a messeng