Chapter 866

"You don't need to panic, this widow is just giving an example. This widow and the emperor don't know how to swim, so if only you know how to swim and you can only save one person, the other person will drown. In this situation, who would you choose to save?"

Empress Dowager Zhou had a smile on her face as she looked at the girls one by one.

"Which one will answer first?" She said with a smile.

The girls all bit their lips, their faces revealing awkward expressions.

How could they answer this question? How could they choose?

If they chose to save the emperor, the Empress Dowager would drown, but if they chose to save the Empress Dowager, the emperor would drown. No matter who they chose, they would offend either the Empress Dowager or the emperor.

Empress Dowager Zhou asked this twice, but none of the girls came forward to answer. They all lowered their heads and thought about it with furrowed brows.

This was even harder to answer than the couplet from before!

Even Su Jin began to sympathize with these girls, secretly blaming Empress Dowager Zhou. What kind of strange question did the Empress Dowager ask, how could these girls answer? If it was her, she wouldn't know how to answer.

Empress Dowager Zhou couldn't help looking at Mo Chuan and saying in a soft voice, "Emperor, your question seems to have stumped everyone. Tell your mother, what is the correct answer to this question?"

Her voice was filled with curiosity that she couldn't suppress.

Mo Chuan's lips curled into a smile as he said, "Mother, a thousand people will have a thousand answers, perhaps there will only be two answers. Your son does not know what the correct answer is, but as for their answers, the one that mother thinks is the most pleasing to the ear is the correct answer."

"You slippery brat, humph!" Empress Dowager Zhou glared at her son.

She waited for a while, but the girls still did not answer.

"How about this, you can answer one by one." Empress Dowager Zhou pointed at the closest girl and said, "Tell this widow, who will you save?"

The girl was shocked, thinking that Empress Dowager Zhou was pointing at someone else. She looked around and found that Empress Dowager Zhou was pointing at her, instantly wanting to cry.

She never would have thought that Empress Dowager Zhou would choose her first to answer this difficult question.

"I ….. I ….." The girl bit her lips until they turned white, not being able to answer for a while.

Su Jin couldn't help looking at her with a sympathetic gaze.

"I ….. I'll save the Empress Dowager!" The girl suddenly noticed that Empress Dowager Zhou's face had sunk, revealing a look of displeasure as she replied.

"Oh, you want to save this widow? Then are you going to watch the emperor drown to death?" Empress Dowager Zhou leaned back into the chair and placed the cup on the table, seriously looking at the girl.

"Empress Dowager to die!" The young girl blurted out. She had already seen Mo Chuan's handsome face and her heart was beating fast. If she could marry him and become the empress, how could she bear to let him drown. "I ….. I'll save the emperor!"

"Save the emperor?" Empress Dowager Zhou nodded. She didn't deny it and said, "Alright, it's been hard on you.

It was clearly the Empress Dowager who was choosing the Empress for the Emperor, but she chose to save the Emperor instead of the Empress Dowager. The Empress Dowager must hate her to death, so how could she still choose her as the Empress?