Detective Ghost Empress

He smiled to ease the awkwardness but he did not know that his smile only made Yu Lingyun even more flustered, he looked at Zhai Tianyu who was smiling at him and thought that the latter has heard what he was saying to Zhai Heng. He was an idiot! He should have gone to talk somewhere else but then someone else would have heard him! Other than the study of the Emperor where even the Dowager Empress would have to ask for permission before entering where else should he have gone?

” Your…your majesty, please don’t get angry..all right, I know this is a matter of pride but you shouldn’t get angry, I mean it. You should give him another chance, I promise that he will surely change his ways,” before Zhai Tianyu could say anything Yu Lingyun started to apologize as he raised his hand and then pushed it right behind Zhai Heng making him bow.

” Leave this bear child to me, I will teach him how to walk on the right path real soon!” Yu Lingyun apologised again and again while he forced Zhai Heng to apologize along with him.

At first, Zhai Tianyu was bemused by his actions but then he could not help but ask, ” Why are you guys apologizing like this? It’s all right if elder brother fell for a married woman, as long as he knows that it is wrong there is no need for him to apologize like this, all right?”

Zhai Tianyu trusted his brother and believed in him more than anyone, he thought that there was no way Zhai Heng would fall for his wife which was why he did not even think that Zhai Heng might have done anything that would let him down.

Yu Lingyun however did not think like that, in his mind, they were already caught by Zhai Tianyu but the latter was so great that he was not getting angry at them and was even willing to forgive them. He raised his head and looked at his friend who treated his buddies better than he did his woman and immediately smiled, ” You are great your majesty, your heart is grander than the sea I have seen in this imperial city !”

” Okay ?” Zhai Tianyu did not understand half of the things that Yu Lingyun was saying but he somehow managed to say one word while looking at the two of them like he could not understand what comedy act the two of them were pulling at this moment.

Zhai Heng rolled his eyes as he pushed Yu Lingyun’s hands off his head and then stated firmly, ” He seemed to have been mistaken, it was an emergency and I did what I was supposed to do …there were no extra feelings attached to my actions other than helping someone who was in need but this man here seemed to have misunderstood my actions and thought that I fell in love with a married woman. Do not fall for his foolish talks, your majesty.”

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As he spoke, Zhai Heng glared at Yu Lingyun. Even if he did not have the intention like this as Yu Lingyun was speaking this man might as well make him think of doing something like this!

Yu Lingyun touched his nose, he too realised that he might have said too much which was why he lowered his head a bit embarrassed as he turned to look at Zhai Tianyu who was standing in front of him and smiled at him, ” I apologize to your majesty.”

“It’s all right,” Zhai Tianyu waved his hand and then walked over to the chair where he sat and then took a seat before heaving a heavy sigh. Seeing him sighing like this Yu Lingyun and Zhai Heng exchanged a glance with each other and then turned to look at Zhai Tianyu again before Yu Lingyun asked, ” What’s wrong with your majesty? Did something upset you?”

” Other than the Queen what can upset me?” Zhai Tianyu scoffed as he raised his hand, curled his fingers into a fist and then banged it on the hard surface of the table. ” I told her that our imperial city was under the threat of someone evil, and do you know what she said to me? She told me to leave her alone. Saying that she could not solve this case for me.”

” Like hell, she can’t!” The anger that was slowly simmering down started to simmer back up again, as he curled his lips to a side and then scoffed. ” She is the same woman who can summon an army of dead at her will and stab someone to death with ease. She can do anything that she wants but she just doesn’t want to help me keep our countrymen safe and she is supposed to be the Empress, the mother of this imperial city, the protector of all!”

His brows twisted in an ugly frown as he heaved a heavy breath as he snorted. “I am not your saviour, your majesty!” He mimicked Liu Hui Ying as he mocked her and then sniffed haughtily. ” She could be anything she want to but she chose to become a passive onlooker who only wants to watch and do nothing! As my wife, it’s her duty to protect the city when I can’t… if I can’t even trust her with this then who should I trust?”

Zhai Tianyu was so agitated that he did not even sense that he was slowly getting used to having Liu Hui Ying as his wife even talking about how he was going to trust her.

Seeing him agitated like this Zhai Heng did not know what to say but Yu Lingyun who was standing on the side scratched the back of his head and said, ” Isn’t it normal for her to help us?”