AUBTN -Chapter 300 Beating the Empress Dowager

As she strangled her, Yu Qing shook the Empress Dowager’s head violently.

The Empress Dowager’s eyes rolled back as she was choked, her hands desperately clawing at Yu Qing’s arms.

“Ugh… you… insolence…”

Her face had already turned a dark purplish red.

She had held supreme power for half her life—even during the fiercest succession struggles and the bloodiest harem infighting—

Never had she seen such a lawless, street-brawler-style attack, with someone riding on top of her and choking her senseless!

“Let… ugh…”

“Qingqing! Oh no, don’t be impulsive!”

Su Hewan stood a few steps away at the bottom of the stairs, shouting anxiously as if trying to break up the fight, her tone carrying a hint of panic.

But if one looked closely, her feet were rooted to the ground as if nailed in place—not moving even half an inch!

Not only did she show no intention of stepping forward to stop them, she even subtly adjusted her defensive position.

A few palace maids, who had been frightened stiff and were just mustering the courage to rush forward to protect the Empress Dowager, had barely taken a step when Su Hewan’s back blocked them completely.

“Oh dear, don’t go over there. What if you get hurt?”

As she “kindly” bumped them back with her shoulder, sending them stumbling, she very naturally raised the heavy bronze incense burner in her hand a little higher.

Seeing the faint smile in Su Hewan’s eyes, the maids trembled in fear—who would dare provoke this living Yama?

They could only shrink back behind the pillars, shivering.

Meanwhile, on the phoenix couch, the fierce Yu Qing had completely lost herself in rage.

“Are you giving it or not?! I’m asking you—are you giving me the antidote formula or not?!”

She roared madly, still strangling the Empress Dowager with all her strength.

She pressed her full weight down, firmly pinning the woman beneath her.

“You old hag with a pitch-black heart, rotten to the core!”

“It’s one thing for you to bully my best friend all the time—but now you dare to use dirty tricks to poison my man?!”

“When a tiger doesn’t roar, you really think I’m some soft persimmon you can bully at will?!”

The moment she thought of Lu Yan and Shen Jue coughing up blood and lying lifeless, and of how Su Hewan had nearly traded her own life to save them—

The fire in Yu Qing’s chest surged uncontrollably to her head.

“Today I’ll let you, you narrow-minded relic of feudal times, learn a proper lesson!”

“I’ll let you experience firsthand what it means to be crushed by 21st-century power!”

Yu Qing freed one hand and slammed it down, pinning the Empress Dowager’s struggling left shoulder.

With her other hand, she showed no restraint, plunging it straight into the front of the Empress Dowager’s ornate robes.

“Insolence… you dare search my person…”

A chill hit her chest, and an unprecedented sense of humiliation made the Empress Dowager struggle violently.

But Yu Qing, fueled by a surge of adrenaline, was frighteningly strong.

How could an elderly woman, pampered all her life and already half in the grave, possibly resist her?

“Cut the crap—hand it over!”

Yu Qing slapped away the Empress Dowager’s weak arm and began rummaging roughly through her inner silk garments without any finesse.

Suddenly, her fingertips brushed against a hidden lining.

Her eyes lit up sharply, and she yanked hard!

The Empress Dowager’s luxurious outer robe tore open with a loud rip, exposing a large patch of bright yellow undergarments.

And in Yu Qing’s hand, there now lay a neatly folded square of fine Xuan paper.

She snorted coldly and flicked it open with one hand.

Under the bright candlelight of the hall, three bold characters at the top of the page came into view—

Antidote Formula!

“You vicious, heartless old monster!”

Yu Qing looked at the prescription in her hand and laughed out of sheer rage.

“So you had the prescription written out and hidden on you all along!”

“You came prepared today from the very start—this whole setup was meant to force Wanwan to her death, wasn’t it?”

“You vicious old hag, rotten to the core! You even prepared every step of how to kill and break someone mentally!”

Seeing her final hidden trump card exposed in public, the Empress Dowager trembled with fury, as if her insides were churning violently.

“You wretch… you filthy whore…”

Her hair was disheveled, her composure completely gone—where was the dignified, noble Empress Dowager of before?

She hurled every vile curse she had ever known in a frenzy.

“I’ll have you sliced into a thousand pieces… I’ll skin you alive and burn you as a human torch…”

“I’ll exterminate your entire clan and send you to the lowest brothel camps, to be trampled by thousands of men…”

Listening to such inhuman venom, Yu Qing only laughed harder in anger.

“You still dare to curse me?”

With a cold sneer, she stuffed the extremely precious prescription into her clothes.

Then she suddenly straightened up, swung her arm wide—

And delivered a loud, resounding slap straight across the Empress Dowager’s furious face!

The unexpected blow snapped the Empress Dowager’s head to the side, her mind going blank.

“That’s for bullying Wanwan! For forcing my best friend to die!”

Backhand—another heavy slap landed on her other cheek!

“That’s for poisoning people! For abusing your power against Shen Jue and Lu Yan!”

At this point, Yu Qing had turned into a relentless slap machine, her hands striking left and right without pause.

“I’m a modern college student—educated through nine years of compulsory education, well-versed in Marxist theory!”

“I grew up drinking Sanlu milk powder and eating gutter oil—built up immunity to every poison out there! I can even survive three all-nighters during finals and come back to life!”

“You think someone like me would get bullied by a fossil like you, stuffed full of feudal garbage?!”

With Yu Qing’s full-force barrage—both physical and verbal—the Empress Dowager’s towering hairdo collapsed instantly, her gray hair spilling loose in utter disarray.

She looked utterly miserable.

“Ah—someone save me! Guards! Save me—!”

The Empress Dowager’s vision swam with stars, blood seeping uncontrollably from the corner of her mouth.

But the only answer she received was Yu Qing’s increasingly fierce, thunderous shouting.

“Go on, scream! Even the King of Heaven himself couldn’t save your life today!”

“Didn’t you love playing with power and manipulating people? Didn’t you enjoy sitting high above and deciding life and death?!”

“Come on! Get up and face me—a modern woman who took two years of sanda in college!”

At this moment, the Hall of Benevolent Tranquility echoed only with the Empress Dowager’s miserable groans and Yu Qing’s explosive, modern-style tirade.

Madam Zhang, who had just regained consciousness after being kicked to the ground, lay there groggily, staring at the apocalyptic scene before her. In despair, she rolled her eyes—

And promptly fainted again.

Meanwhile, Su Hewan still stood below the steps, silently sighing to herself:

Thank goodness she’s my best friend… and not my enemy.

Just as the Empress Dowager was on the verge of death, her eyes rolling back—

The tightly shut doors were suddenly kicked open from the outside.

The candle flames in the hall flickered wildly in the gust of wind, shadows dancing chaotically.

“Stop!”

With a somewhat youthful shout, three figures stepped over the threshold, walking in across the shattered moonlight.

It was the young emperor—who should have been lying unconscious in his chambers.

And guarding him on either side were Lu Yan and Shen Jue!

At this moment, the two of them showed not the slightest sign of being poisoned.