The Empress let out a small laugh. For a brief moment, her eyes widened in disbelief. She forced a smile, as if her own ears had tricked her. She could not wrap her head around the words she had just heard from the maidservant.
Lady Ge was being forced to do what? Strip? Before the entire nation? In what realm would that happen?
"What did you just say?" the Empress asked the maidservant in a light and airy voice. She wondered if it was time to get her ears checked by the Imperial Physician. They were failing her together.
The maidservant's trembling intensified. She couldn't even see the ground despite being so close to it. Her lips wobbled as she attempted to stutter out the same message.
"L-Lady Ge is being forced to take o-off her clothes near the entrance of the I-Imperial Palace… It's speculated that she will be forced to walk down the steps naked, Y-Your Grace…"
