C39 The Sun Mansion Requests You

"It looks like I'll have to stay outside for a while longer this time. After a while, I'll return to the palace and reply that I've been attacked by an assassin."

"Don't you want to hide it from the empress?"

"That's not necessary." The reason he hid things from the empress was to let the empress find out, and now he's got hold of the empress's weakness.

The empress was like ants on a hot pan