Chapter 51

51 Oh my lord

” Are you sure that you want to do this?” asked Zhai Heng as he walked his brother to the Queen’s courtyard. ” I mean what if the queen does something unexpected to you? Wouldn’t you be letting Ah Yu down?”

” I am not going to do anything with the Queen, elder brother,” replied Zhai Tianyu sharply as he looked at Zhai Heng. ” And please forbid from saying anything like that, you will make others misunderstand and both you and I know, I do not even take the Queen as a woman, why will I do anything unexpected with her?”

He paused and then he succinctly added, “As for Ah Yu, you know it very well that I only brought her to the palace because I would rather have someone trustworthy by my side, the two of us are not like that where I will be letting her down if I were to fall for any woman and she knows it too. But if you are worried then I can assure you that nothing will happen for I know that the woman inside is my enemy.”

Zhai Heng looked at his brother while fighting the urge to tell Zhai Tianyu that he was underestimating Ji Yu’s feelings for him but he has promised Ji Yu that he will not let Zhai Tianyu on the secret that she has shared with him. ” I see, but still be wary of the Empress, from what I have seen we cannot underestimate her anymore.”

“That’s true,” Yu Lingyun nodded fervently by Zhai Heng’s side. ” The Queen is really, really strong as well.. so strong that if you are not paying attention then she will overwhelm you, make sure that you are on your toes no matter what or you are going to suffer.”

Zhai Tianyu was amused by Yu Lingyun’s words and said, ” Dear general, aren’t you underestimating Zhen too much? Do you think a small and petite woman take me down?”

No matter how strong Liu Hui Ying was, she could never be as strong as him. He has trained himself in martial arts while hiding his talents from his mother and the head of the Liu family, with his talent there was no way that he will be taken advantage of by the queen.

” I am just warning you, your majesty,” said Yu Lingyun as he desperately tried to make Zhai Tianyu understand, last night he was a fool and underestimated the Queen and was rewarded with a shoulder throw, even now his back was hurting a little. ” Just be a bit careful when you are with the Queen, it’s not wrong to be on alert when you are in an enemy base.”

Though Zhai Tianyu thought that Yu Lingyun was thinking too much, he still nodded and said, ” Very well, Zhen will remember what you have said, General.”

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As he spoke he walked inside the courtyard of the Queen leaving Zhai Heng and Yu Lingyun inside.

Yu Lingyun watched Zhai Tianyu go and then asked suddenly, ” He didn’t believe a thing that I said right?”

“That’s right,” said Zhai Heng as he stared at his brother’s vanishing back.

” He is so going to suffer,” muttered Yu Lingyun as he rubbed the back of his waist. ” I just hope that the Queen will go easy on him when throwing his majesty over her shoulder.”

Zhai Heng: “....” ??? Was Yu Lingyun speaking the truth?

Zhai Tianyu didn’t have any idea that his friend was already mourning for him, instead, he walked past the cobblestone path that led to the inside of the Queen’s courtyard and frowned when he suddenly felt a chill rise up his spine.

What was this? If he wasn’t wrong, the weather was still hot and he was sure that the Queen’s courtyard that he arranged for though a bit dilapidated was located in one of the best places in the palace. There was no way this courtyard that was situated at the centre of the palace would be this close in the middle of summer right?

” Why am I feeling more and more cold with each step?” Zhai Tianyu paused in the middle of the path as he rubbed his arms and the small hair on the back of his neck started to rise. He looked around the well was covered and so was the pond, there was nothing else that would cause this sudden decline in the temperature either, so why was the entire courtyard as chilly as if someone has built it inside an ice cellar?

Zhai Tianyu was surprised at the chill that was coating his shoulders, for a second he wanted to turn around and leave but when he thought about his plan, he had no other choice but to grit his teeth and enter the courtyard.

And no sooner he took a step inside the silent courtyard than he felt that he might as well have jumped inside water filled with ice. It was that cold, so cold that even his heart shivered– he looked around the dark corridor and then swallowed the nervousness that was rising in his body and took a brave step but the closer he got to Liu Hui Ying’s room, the more his heart turned cold.

Maybe it was the darkness or maybe it was the chill but his heart suddenly started thumping more and more harshly. Or maybe it was both of them because never before has he felt this terrified, it was as if something was going to pop up suddenly and chop his neck in half–

No sooner did he think of it, than he heard something scrape on the wooden board and he turned around at once, clutching his heart that was thumping a bit too loud. However, as soon as he turned around he saw nothing other than the moonlight that was spilling inside the dark corridor through the sieve-like window pane and heaved a sigh of relief.

There was nothing, Zhai Tianyu shook his head before he scolded Yu Lingyun, it was because of that man he was this scared. He was the one who said all that nonsense and scared him like this... be on your toes! Damn that man!

After he was done scolding, he turned around and raised his head, hand still clutching his chest when his gaze met with that of a pearly white woman, dressed as up as a weird animal. If that was all, maybe Zhai Tianyu would not have done what he did but then he noticed that the woman standing in front of him was transparent and his eyes rolled as he screamed– ” OH MY DEAR LORD!”

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