Transmigrated Canon Fodder, Please Calm Down! Chapter 494



“Don’t you study to pursue fame and rank? You talk about how ‘within books lie houses of gold and beauties like jade,’ yet here you are, throwing insults at me. Do you think a few curses will earn you a position or a title? Wake up! Go back and study books about serving the nation and its people. Earn yourself some real accolades first!”

“Insulting a woman like me. Does it make you feel especially satisfied, like you’ve accomplished something? Are you thinking, ‘What about the lofty Imperial Concubine? She’s still going to be scolded to death by us’?”

“Fine, I’m not going to die. I will live just fine. Angry? Then come up here and cut me down. I’m standing right here, come if you dare.”

Tang Guo drew her soft sword and slashed at the city wall. Instantly, a large gap was carved into the stone, with rubble scattering down below. The crowd looked on in shock.

“I’ve killed before. Back when Xuanyuan Mo was assassinated, of the two dozen assassins, I slit the throats of more than half of them with this very sword.”

She raised an eyebrow, glancing at the pale-faced scholars below who instinctively took steps back, their robes trembling as they moved. She let out a soft laugh. “What’s wrong? Are you scared? Didn’t expect me to have such skills, did you? I’ve said it before, you’re all far too short-sighted.”

“You’ve spent so many years reading books, but what have you learned from them? Like everyone else, you only see the surface. Have you never thought about what lies beneath?”

“Did you never consider why, as an Imperial Concubine, I would openly seek pleasure with another man who isn’t the emperor? Why I would stroll so boldly in the imperial garden, knowing it would give people the chance to use it against me? In Tianqin, there are far too many people who want me dead. Do you think I’m so foolish as to hand them an opportunity on a silver platter?”

“Isn’t it just your inherently depraved nature?” someone mustered the courage to say.

Tang Guo chuckled softly, shaking her head. “I’m already an Imperial Concubine. Why would I do something like that? What would be the point of tarnishing my name, being written into history, and cursed for thousands of years to come? Why would I bother?”

“Don’t listen to her nonsense,” another person interjected. “She’s just trying to wash away her crimes.”

Tang Guo turned her gaze to the speaker, letting out a light laugh. “We are both women, but can’t tolerate me either? Judging by your attire, you must be the wife of some noble or marquis. Is that it? You can’t stand to see me live so freely, indifferent to the judgment of others? Don’t worry. In the future, there will be many more things you won’t be able to stand, and you’ll never be able to correct them. If I dare to stand here today, I’m not afraid of being scolded or criticized.”

“You can write poems, compose songs, or create all kinds of stories to insult me. It won’t bother me in the slightest. In fact, I’ll mock you back even harder for being nothing but a bunch of foolish people.”

Everyone turned pale upon hearing the woman’s words.

In the past, any woman who had been publicly scolded like this would have been unable to bear it. They would have thrown themselves into a lake or hanged themselves at home.

They truly never imagined that after being cursed by the entire city, a woman could still smile and hurl insults back, leaving them speechless. Her shamelessness was truly thicker than the city walls.

Xuanyuan Mo hurried over, only to hear the scene of the woman trading insults with the countless people below. Faced with the torrent of abuse, not only did she remain unfazed, but she also wore a mocking expression, openly scorning every single one of them.

He froze in place, his fists clenching. How had he never noticed how captivating she was before?

His chest tightened. Everything that had led to this moment, wasn’t it all his doing?

“There are women from the brothels below, aren’t there? Did you come here to see for yourselves if the lofty Imperial Concubine is somehow worse than you?” Tang Guo fixed her gaze on the group of women. “No, I am different from you. I do not look down on your status, but I do find your behavior in coming here laughable.”



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