Even he, as foolish as he might have been, had realized that the situation before him vastly differed from what he had anticipated.
Indeed, in the next moment, under the watchful eyes of Emperor Zhou and the Court officials, the Town-Nation Duke's Heir approached the Queen of South Ming beside him and removed the jade pendant from around her neck.
Conflicted emotions might have crossed the Queen's face, but she did not resist in the slightest, merely sighing helplessly towards the King of South Ming.
Although she was a split-off of the Demon Emperor, she possessed a certain degree of autonomy in consciousness. Given her current predicament, not to mention a change in personality, even if she had been tainted with the slightest filth, the Demon Emperor would never allow her to merge back into the original entity.
The consciousness of the original entity had yet to descend.
She could live a little longer.