『"Standing half a step behind Your Ladyship is the most correct position this servant has ever held in his life."』
Murong Ji
Director of the Directorate of Ceremonial (fake eunuch) × Empress Dowager (There is a transmigrated woman!) The Empress Dowager says Murong Ji is her most loyal servant. The Prince Regent says the Empress Dowager is right. The court officials watch that Prince Regent—the one whose power dominates the court and the realm, who kills without blinking—bend over to pour tea for the Empress Dowager and stand in attendance with his hands lowered, and their eyes nearly pop out of their heads—what the hell, is this the living King of Hell who gives every civil and military official in the court nightmares? Murong Ji doesn't see a problem with it. If the Empress Dowager tells him to kill, he kills. If the Empress Dowager tells him to rub her shoulders, he rubs her shoulders. When the Empress Dowager says, "Don't stand so close before I've finished speaking," he answers "Understood," and the next time he still can't help moving half an inch closer. He is a man who crawled out of mountains of corpses and seas of blood, the executioner who personally bathed the imperial palace in blood, the Prince Regent whose very sight makes the Emperor's legs go weak. Yet before the Empress Dowager, he always calls himself "this servant," always stands half a step behind her, and always treats every word she says as a sacred edict. Until that transmigrated woman appeared. She brought her "equality for all" and "one husband, one wife," bewitching his little Emperor completely. The little Emperor plucks up his courage to threaten the Empress Dowager: "Mother, your son has no choice but to be disrespectful to you."
"Standing half a step behind Your Ladyship is the most correct position this servant has ever held in his life."