The Way of the Empress

Zhuo Yang let out a sigh of relief. He thought: “Oh, he just misunderstood that I like Gordon and is still worried about me. This is really great.”

Moodys fixed a look at him.

“His Royal Highness, are you worrying about me?” Zhuo Yang laughed out of nowhere, very relaxed.

Moodys moved his lips, trying to explain something.

Zhuo Yang didn’t wait for him to open his mouth. Blinking with narrowed eyes, he asked, “Or, are you jealous?”

Seriously, he really felt that Moodys was treating him more indulgently. It is simply too indulgent, and not like the original crown prince.

As soon as Zhuo Yang said this, Moodys suffocated immediately.

Just as Zhuo Yang felt, he could also feel that his words were too acrimonious and mean to Gordon… This shouldn’t be the case. No matter what kind of person Gordon is, or how he thinks of him in his heart, he shouldn’t judge others at will or belittle their characters based on his own speculation. This is the most basic gentleman’s etiquette.

Moodys has always done so in the past, but today he… is this jealousy?

Moodys lowered his head and rubbed the fox blanket in his arms, thinking to himself: ‘It’s really bad. How did I get so used to Zhuo Yang and the nine-tailed fox in such a short amount of time. Can I no longer afford the loneliness of being alone anymore? Did I start to care about Zhuo Yang, and have a possessive desire for him?’

Obviously he was not like this before. Was it because he was really lonely for too long, because he finally had someone to accompany him, unable to bear loneliness anymore? Or does he already like Zhuo Yang? Moodys was puzzled by his feelings.

A part of him suspected he was lonely for too long, sentimental, and sensitive to the illusion produced after thinking too much. And another part felt he might have been moved by Zhuo Yang.

But before his thoughts fell in his mind, Moodys interrupted his runaway thoughts.

Whether it’s good or not, his physical condition is not suitable for talking about feelings, researching whether he likes another person or not. Such things are is too extravagant and unsuitable for how he is now.

His body is already like this, so why bother to drag another person into the water?

And Zhuo Yang and him are nothing more than their nominal husbands…

Zhuo Yang saw Moodys’s embarrassment and was extremely happy in his heart. He did not force the issue, but said from the heart: “Your Highness, you are so gentle.”

“…I’m just afraid that you will go astray.” Moodys kept telling himself that it was just for Zhuo Yang’s good. He didn’t want to see him being deceived by Gordon and taken advantage of.

Zhuo Yang smiled and said nothing.

After a while, he cleared the air, saying: “Your Highness, I do not like Gordon.”

Now his mental power has not fully recovered, and he is not sure whether he has SS-level mental power. Some words and thoughts are inconvenient to share with Moodys. If his mental power is not SS-level, and he uses forbidden drugs, according to Moodys’ temperament, he won’t allow him to harm his body with such things. When it comes time to it, it will be troublesome to act.

But there were some things Zhuo Yang felt that he had to make it clear.

Moodys is a very special existence for him. He is his only sustenance about what is good in the world, and the only person who can be in his heart and love wholeheartedly. Zhuo Yang is eager to be with him. He doesn’t want to conceal anything between them, or for Moodys to have the illusion that he likes Gordon and others…

Moodys frowned cautiously and looked at him: “Huh?”

“Your Highness, I’m different from you. I am a person who has risen from the mud. I never believed that good is rewarded for good, or evil is repaid in evil. Nor should I be a good person and do good deeds to be rewarded. I only believe in myself, knowing that in order to live, and live well, I need to use every effort to climb all the way up…” Zhuo Yang said word by word: “Don’t tell me anything about morality. I only know that if others treat me well, I should repay them. And if others hurt me, I will never let them life well. I will only pay a tooth for a tooth, an eye for an eye, so that people will pay blood for blood.”

He was never a good person, and he didn’t want to pretend to be in front of Moodys.

Moodys listened to his self-exposition. After not speaking for a while, he frowned deeply and said: “You… this is not very good. It’s too extreme…”

Zhuo Yang suddenly saying such words made many grudges and inner suspicions disappear all at once.

Although Moodys himself is not a scheming person and seeks a superior position, there are many staff and subordinates around and under him…

When they give advice, he will listen, but he still has his own opinions. Whether he decides to adopt them or not is based on his own considerations.

He is gentle and not extreme. Although he often has many idealistic concepts, he does not exclude the existence of such a person.

The gentleman is as clear as water, and the villain is as slippery as oil.

Moodys knows that only when all kinds of people exist, combined and used properly, guided properly and twisted into a rope, can they give this country a good future.

In this society, in such a circle, all kinds of people are indispensable…

But, putting these on Zhuo Yang-

Moodys can’t be indifferent. He is deeply and sincerely distressed for Zhuo Yang.

“I can’t tell you that the sword is slanted isn’t good1, but being too extreme will eventually hurt yourself. It’s not like there’s no good examples of this working out, but a sword being slanted for too long will be too extreme. If you do, I think you must be unhappy. It’s too tiring to live like this, and it’s hard to be happy…” Moodys still remembers the way the poor and helpless little boy looked at him, and he can’t help but want to persuade Zhuo Yang.

The higher you go, the more you think you have everything, and the less happiness you get when you use your heart and soul.

Just like his mother Queen Catherine. Like Gordon. Having real carefree happiness, being able to laugh from the heart regardless of everything, is a very extravagant thing for them.

Zhuo Yang shook his head. “Your Highness, it’s useless for you to fill me with chicken soup now. It is impossible to change me with a few words. You should also know that people like me can’t listen to these principles…”

“So, if you want to change me, let’s start with a long-term plan.” He laughed.

He wanted to wait and see whether Moodys could change him or he changed Moodys… But before that, he had to keep Moodys alive…

Moodys sighed silently after hearing his words.

However, Zhuo Yang once again commented: “Your Highness, in a sense, His Excellency the Secretary-General and I are actually the same kind of person.”

“So, you don’t have to worry about him taking advantage of me. While using me, I am also using him… we’re just mutually using each other.”

Moodys shook his head, and said, “No, you and him are not the same…”

He can see that Gordon Corey has no bottom line in his desire to keep climbing up. Whereas Zhuo Yang does, therefore, they are not the same…

“You are too timid.” Moodys is not happy that Zhuo Yang thinks of himself like this.

Zhuo Yang smiled, and did not answer.

He is still making false claims with Gordon, but it’s because Moodys hasn’t recovered yet.

Zhuo Yang is an incredibly calm and rational person. He loves Moodys and wants Moodys to live. As long as Moodys can live, even if he pays everything he can pay, and hurts himself in the process, he is willing to exchange this chance for Moodys to survive.

But he would not feel confidently that after he gave everything, Moodys would really be able to live as he wished, by his side…

Zhuo Yang thought about many possibilities before getting married—

His answer is simple. If Moodys is dead, he will not lose his fighting spirit and will continue to live very well. He will continue to climb to the peak of power. He will create a child with the genes of him and Moodys. With this precious memory and remembrance, continue to climb up…

He loves Moodys. Now that Moodys is still alive, he is willing to give himself a gate, a bottom line, and tell himself, in order to get what he wants – Moodys’ love – he can’t cross this bottom line and be a bad guy…

But if Moodys died, the gate and bottom line will no longer exist.

If at that time, Zhuo Yang considered that his body, beauty, mental strength, and the sincerity of others… there would be nothing he would not use to climb the ladder.

And by then, Gordon, a high-ranking and gloomy conspirator, will also become a very useful pawn in his hand.

Therefore, Zhuo Yang still can’t discard this chess piece, and needs to maintain a weird contact with him.

And where his fate goes depends on whether Moodys’s body can recover and live well.

Zhuo Yang told himself that as long as Moodys lives, he will break with all his past ugliness and privates, and become a person that Moodys expects and wants. He will be a qualified person, a competent crown princess. But if Moodys’s body really cannot be saved, he will indulge himself to the other extreme…