The Way of the Empress

In Zhuo Yang’s opinion, Fang Yunzhi is a very good girl. Even if she likes Moodys, she will never investigate him privately, or know about him and Gordon.

Moreover, in his previous meeting with Fang Yunzhi, after knowing that Moodys liked him, Miss Fang clearly stated that she would give up her admiration for Moodys and bless the two of them.

So, why did Fang Yunzhi have a big change in attitude in such a short period of time…

She seemed to know something about him and Gordon, misunderstood him, and came to warn him?

There must be someone who jumped up, moving some hands and feet, and wanted to do something or achieve something.

It wouldn’t be Fang Yunzhi… If it was her, she wouldn’t have come to warn him and ask him to be prepared.

It’s more likely this Miss Fang is being used by others to do something in the process of framing him…

Then, who is behind the scenes?

Zhuo Yang went through all the suspicious people in his mind, but he still couldn’t find the reason.

But no matter who is behind this, whoever has the guts to plot against him must be ready to not have any place for a burial.

Zhuo Yang calmed down and directly called Gordon.

The Secretary-General quickly picked it up and asked in a panic, “What’s the matter? Your Royal Highness, what is it that you are looking for me so late?”

While those aristocratic families were being cleaned up recently, Gordon saw the means of the crown princess very much, and deeply felt the terrifying part of this guide hidden under a delicate mask.

It could be said that he was very jealous of him.

“You don’t want to live, do you really want to die? Your Excellency Secretary-General.” Zhuo Yang looked at Gordon coldly through the video. A dangerous smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

He was beautiful, but somehow intimidating.

He has always been very careful in his work, never leaving any traces. It won’t be his side that has a problem. It can only be Gordon’s side, and it is even possible that Gordon himself is involved in this calculation against him.

Zhuo Yang opened his mouth to question, and at the same time, observed every subtle change in Gordon’s expression.

The moment his mind wanders… No one has ever lied in front of him.

Gordon looked confused, as if he really didn’t know. “What did you say? Your Highness. I don’t understand what you mean…”

He just felt Zhuo Yang is very capricious. After gaining power, his means became more perverted, which is terrible.

“Don’t you understand what I said? Just tell me straight up if you want to die. You don’t have to play around here. I don’t mind giving sending you off.” Zhuo Yang looked at him coldly, word by word, still watching for changes in Gordon’s expression.

Gordon felt like he was being stared at by a poisonous snake. “I really don’t know, Your Highness. I don’t know what you are talking about…”

He even began to suspect that Zhuo Yang was mentally abnormal and perverted.

“You don’t know?” Seeing that he really didn’t know about it, Zhuo Yang immediately lost the idea to scare him, but he still said, “You don’t know, the things we have worked together privately in the past and our secret connections, how they get out? Why did Fang Yunzhi come to question me, threatening me to tell the crown prince… You don’t know. Is it because I sleepwalked and told them?”

Frightened, Gordon realized why he was furious. “What? The things we have done together in the past have been revealed. How is this possible?”

“No, Your Highness, you have to believe me, this is not what I did. We are already on the same boat now, prospering and losing together. What benefit do I have? It is definitely not me!” After realizing that Zhuo Yang suspected he was behind the scenes, he quickly defended himself.

He knew that now Zhuo Yang, as the crown princess, had private guards and secret guards on his side. It is easy to arrange an assassination and take his life with the crown prince’s support.

Zhuo Yang sneered. “Perhaps, you want to use this as a lever to hold me? After all, a sentinel like you, who thinks he knows some of a guide’s secrets, will think that the guide is easy to handle. The more powerful you are, the more you have to lose… Because we are more afraid of losing, so often because of a little secret, people who think like you will take it to death. You say, do you agree?” Zhuo Yang raised his eyebrows lightly, nonchalantly.

Gordon hurriedly denied: “No, Your Highness, it’s not me. I don’t dare. It’s really not me…”

Maybe, he really had such thoughts before, and even tried it. But after knowing who Zhuo Yang was, getting to know him more, and learning how terrible he is… Gordon really didn’t dare.

Zhuo Yang is simply crazy. His thoughts cannot be speculated from an ordinary person’s point of view.

“Really? You really don’t dare?” Zhuo Yang tapped his index finger on the table, enjoying this kind of cat teasing a mouse-like fun.

Gordon was terrified and reassured him: “Really, it’s really not me—”

“So, who is it, if it wasn’t you?” Zhuo Yang asked softly.

Gordon’s face was blank: “I…I don’t know…”

“It doesn’t matter if you don’t know. I said it before, whether it’s you or not, as long as this matter gets out of the way, I’ll count it on your head.” Zhuo Yang smiled lightly. “I’ll give you five days to find who’s behind the scenes and wants to threaten me, and find out how they learned of these things they shouldn’t know, and tried to threaten me… Otherwise, prepare an urn for yourself.”

Gordon shuddered: “Your Highness… Your Highness…”

He wants to discuss it again.

“I’m a person who does what I say.” Zhuo Yang didn’t listen to him at all, and cut him off directly.

Without waiting for Gordon to reply, he cut off the communication he started.

On the other end, Gordon shivered slightly.

Fang Yunzhi’s warning was an early warning. A warning that there were people in the dark who were secretly aimed at him and wanting to make trouble.

But Zhuo Yang is not afraid at all. He has always done everything without leakage. All communications with Gordon are encrypted. Even Gordon cannot copy, reproduce, or record it. Even the time he said the most exaggerated words was at banquet held at the Crown Prince’s residence. It was his own territory, and no one could do anything to record the conversation between him and Gordon…

And whenever meeting Gordon in the past, even if Gordon and others had the opportunity and the possibility of recording, he always put on the image of a little white flower in front of Gordon, never revealing his true face.

Even if during that time, there really is any video left to expose—

He can also fight four, five or six people. Because of his stepmother’s viciousness, he pushed Xia Xiuzhi’s entire family and Gordon to be the scapegoats. He, himself, is entirely clean.

Zhuo Yang has grown up so much and has encountered many things, but he has never been afraid of anything. He has always believed that fighting people is a lot of fun.

The only thing he was afraid of was Moodys misunderstanding him.

And now, Moodys already knew who he was, and was willing to accept and love the imperfect him. At this point, even if he exposed his true face in front of the entire empire, and admitted he is a terrible, scheming bitch, Zhuo Yang has nothing to fear.

After Zhuo Yang contacted Gordon, he contacted a few people under his own hand on the way back, and asked them to check the messenger behind the incident.

Zhuo Yang went home very calmly, and told Moodys about this as a joke.

“They didn’t put any conditions on this matter, and didn’t find you directly. Instead, revealing it to the Fang family, and letting Miss Fang know about it. I’m afraid that the people behind this are not good people, and they want to make a big fuss.” Zhuo Yang didn’t take it seriously, but Moodys frowned deeply when he heard this.

Zhuo Yang smiled lightly without care. “The other party thinks they know my secret, but instead of threatening me, disclosed it to the Fang family. It doesn’t look like they want to use it to get a handle over me, but want to directly make trouble and ruin me.”

If they want to get a handle over him, they should secretly poke at the door, not let the Fang family and Fang Yunzhi know about it.

“Since you know that the other party wants to make a big move, you can still laugh without knowing who they are? Aren’t you worried at all?” Seeing his indifferent face, Moodys felt like he was looking at a willful child, feeling very worried.

He doesn’t know when Zhuo Yang can grow up, not taking this matter to heart.

Zhuo Yang remained indifferent. “I have nothing to worry about, I still have you.”

Moodys looked at him and shook his head gently. He sighed silently, and began to contact his subordinates to investigate this matter.

“Besides, the only thing I’m afraid of in this world is that you misunderstand me and don’t believe me.” Zhuo Yang wrapped his arms around his waist as if making trouble, and provoked him. “As long as you believe me, even if whole world misunderstands me, pointing at me and saying I’m a vicious person, white lotus, disgusting, liar, hypocrite… I’m not afraid. I don’t care.”

He never took other people’s opinions into his eyes.

Moodys was the only one who could make his mood swing.

“I will always believe in you.” Moodys was heartbroken by his sudden love words. He gently held Zhuo Yang’s hand around his waist, as if holding Zhuo Yang’s heart, carefully promising. “No matter what others say, even if the whole world says you are not good… As long as you say you are not like that, I will believe you.”

Zhuo Yang trusts him like this, loves him, and speaks straightforwardly and frankly in front of him, handing both a sincere heart and a sharp blade over.

He can only reciprocate with the same sincerity.

Zhuo Yang smiled and kissed his cheek.

After a minute, Zhuo Yang remembered something, and said: “Tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow, find some time to accompany me to find Miss Fang. It’s not good for her to misunderstand like this. You always have to explain it, clarify it, and give me back my innocence.”

Moodys: “…”

Didn’t he just say he doesn’t care about others opinion and only cares about his own?

Liar!

“Didn’t you say that you don’t care about other people’s opinions? It doesn’t matter what Miss Fang thinks.” Moodys said.

Zhuo Yang shook his head and said, “Miss Fang is different from others. I have a good impression of her, I think she is a good girl. I don’t want her to misunderstand that I’m using you. What others think, I really don’t care.”

The main reason is because Fang Yunzhi is an admirer of Moody’s. A true admirer, not the kind of admirer who admire’s Moodys’ powerful position.

Zhuo Yang didn’t want her to think that he was taking advantage of the person she liked, but wanted to tell her that he also loved Moodys…

“So, Miss Fang is not someone else?” Moody’s face turned a little dark.

Zhuo Yang said without thinking: “Of course, I really want to make friends with her.”

Moodys’ face turned darker all of a sudden.

“Hey, you say, how can we explain it to Miss Fang tomorrow or the day after tomorrow? How can we explain it so that she will trust me more?” Zhuo Yang asked.

Moodys didn’t want to hear him continue: “Don’t mention her.”

“Why?” Zhuo Yang didn’t know why.

In his impression, Moodys also admired this Miss Fang very much.

Moodys was silent for a while before he said, “…Because, I’m jealous.”

“Ah?” Zhuo Yang was stunned for a while, not expecting Moodys to be jealous because of Fang Yunzhi. “Your Highness, Miss Fang is your admirer. Even if someone wants to be jealous, that should be me, right?”

The logic of Moodys’ thinking is not very smooth.

“If you’re jealous, that’s normal,” Moodys said.

Zhuo Yang asked with a question mark on his head: “What logic is this?”

Could it be that Moodys has an unusual aesthetic, doesn’t like being reasonable or partners who are friendly to their rivals. They prefer to be in a state of jealousy. For the sake of a rival, they can kill both him and the rival to show their dominance?

He began to try to analyze it from another direction.

“You seem to have a good impression of her from the start, and never treated her like Rand or the others because she is my admirer. Instead, you admire her very much, and are afraid she will misunderstand you.” Moodys couldn’t say why he was jealous over Fang Yunzhi.

Zhuo Yang is still very confused. “That’s because she is your admirer, a real admirer. Rand and them are not. She also said that she was still willing to marry you when you were injured, I admire her very much… I think she’s a really good girl.”

He really didn’t understand Moodys’ jealousy.

“However, you have been praising her unconsciously, thinking she is different, and always thinking she is beautiful… Of course, her appearance is indeed very beautiful.” When facing Zhuo Yang, Moodys often lacks confidence.

Zhuo Yang’s appearance is so outstanding and so radiant, but he…

If it were not for his crown prince identity, and frankly speaking, before being disfigured, Moodys also felt that he would not be found if he was thrown into a crowd.

Loving someone makes a person humble.

Moodys sometimes often worries that Zhuo Yang’s feelings for him are not actually love, but longing and worship for the person who saved him when he was young… He mistakenly thinks its love and sought him. But when a person who really makes him tempted and for whom he has a good impression appears, he will find that everything is wrong.

After being with Zhuo Yang, Moodys was very afraid that such a thing would happen… Therefore, he subconsciously rejected himself, and someone very special will appear in Zhuo Yang’s eyes.

And now-

Fang Yunzhi is someone who Zhuo Yang feels is special.

Moodys inexplicably felt a huge sense of crisis because of his one-time admirer.

“So what if she’s beautiful?” Zhuo Yang finally believed that Moodys was really jealous, immediately confessing his state of mind. “The only person I love is you.”

“I think she treats you very well, which is what makes Miss Fang special. If you mind, I won’t explain it. If she misunderstands me, let her misunderstand me.” Moodys, who was inexplicably jealous, is kind of cute.

Moodys was skeptical. “…Really?”

He really felt that Fang Yunzhi was much better than himself in terms of appearance… and more attractive to Zhuo Yang.

“Of course.” Zhuo Yang hugged Moodys and kissed him.

The two began messing around again. Lying side by side on the bed, Moodys finally came out of that weird jealous mood and said, “I will accompany you to see Miss Fang tomorrow, and explain it to her clearly. It’s always bad for her to misunderstand your character.”

“Okay.” Zhuo Yang leaned against his arms and smiled extraordinarily sweetly.

Suddenly thinking of something, he poked Moodys on the arm and asked, “The mastermind behind the scenes revealed the news to Miss Fang, probably just to make me panic because of the so-called secret.”

“Hey, you say, if they knew I didn’t panic at all and was in a good mood, wouldn’t they be mad?” He wondered.

Moodys rubbed his hair very gently, and responded: “If this person knew that you were so heartless, they would definitely be pissed off.”

As the two were chatting, Zhuo Yang’s personal terminal received an anonymous message –

“Your Royal Highness must not want your ‘secret’ to be known. Tomorrow at nine o’clock in the morning, Sunflower Cafe in the Imperial Capital, don’t bring anyone. Let’s meet.”

 

Gotta love Moodys and Zhuo Yang’s mental loops. Being jealous because someone likes a third party for liking them.

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