Chapter 57 Payback For The Lash

“I did it, but why? Why did you come to ruin me? “Do you know how hard it was for me to become the empress? How much I had to endure to become an empress dowager? “I finally sat high above the masses, without being held in contempt? Why couldn’t you allow me to indulge a little longer?” Alison cried and shouted. Her tears finally let out. Ashley held her tongue. Gazing at her once beloved sister, Ashley cracked into a smile. “What do you mean nobody loves you? Who took the beating for you when you stole father’s jade fan? “At the age of ten, who risked her life saving you when you almost drowned in the lake? “At fifteen, when we were escorted to the capital...” She choked, having been reminded of an intolerable past. Those beautiful and cold eyes were tainted with a layer of red, alongside heavy disappointment and despair. “Who was the one who came in the way when countless tried to defile your innocence during the journey of a thousand five hundred kilometers towards t