The Way of the Empress

Zhuo Yang came with the intention of watching a joke, but he didn’t expect to see such a big one. He couldn’t help laughing from amusement. “Are you crazy, or am I crazy? Mr. Lin Xuan, are you joking?”

“I’m not joking, I’m serious, Your Highness.” Lin Xuan said.

Zhuo Yang tapped his index finger on the table and looked down at Lin Xuan who was kneeling in front of him. “But don’t forget, I’m already married. I’m the crown princess of the empire.”

“I’m whole heartedly willing to be your lover.” Lin Xuan spoke very affectionately, and the meaning of being a kept lover1The term used is “xiao san” or mistress, but mistress isn’t for males. was very clear.

Zhuo Yang looked at him and thought it was very funny. “But even if you want to, I don’t want it.”

“I’m curious, who gave you the face to kneel in front of me and say this kind of thing?” Zhuo Yang slightly restrained the smile on his face, and looked at him coldly. “From the start, when our marriage contract was still in place, you disliked my low mental strength and got together with Zhuo Yu. Spiritually bonding with Zhuo Yu before marriage is also you. Running over with Zhuo Yu to show off, saying that he was the only one in your eyes, and the who devalued me was also you…”

“Who gave you face and ask me to be my lover? Lin Xuan.” Zhuo Yang never put Lin Xuan in his eyes, and only today, did he think this person is really funny.

He looked down at Lin Xuan condescendingly and said in a cold tone: “Don’t talk about a lover, you’re not even worthy of being my dog.”

Lin Xuan’s confession and Zhuo Yang’s sarcasm immediately caught everyone’s attention. When The webcast barrage was full of comments from audiences across all walks of life praising Zhuo Yang’s mockery of Lin Xuan.

“I originally thought that someone was blackening His Highness? So, the theme of this issue is actually how to slap a scumbag who wants to turn back to be a mistress?”

“His Highness’s response is really handsome! It’s my first time seeing someone so cool!”

“Don’t even deserve to be a dog, 2333333.”2333… = sound of laughing

“Inexplicably, I feel that the style of the crown princess is a big different. Is it because of meeting an ex-marriage partner? Inexplicably looks a bit like a ‘bitch’ (compliment), and is so beautiful! Coupled with his beauty, really want to lick the screen!“

“I can’t believe that the crown princess is actually such a crown princess, deliberately embarrassing a scumbag in front of everyone?”

“I really agree with the question from His Highness. Who is the one who gave the scumbag face…”

The comments were all over the place.

However, Zhuo Yang and Lin Xuan, the two parties in the live broadcast, could not see it.

Lin Xuan lowered his head, and his face turned extremely ugly for a time. Even after falling to such a point, no guide had ever insulted and belittled him like this.

But he soon forced himself to hold back, and said affectionately: “I am willing to be your dog, Your Royal Highness!”

Zhuo Yang destroyed his future and reputation, and he had to destroy Zhuo Yang too!

“Sorry, even if you have a hobby of being a dog, I don’t want to raise a beast.” Zhuo Yang’s tongue was so poisonous that no one could resist.

Lin Xuan smiled, but stood up from the ground: “You don’t want to raise animals, but don’t you lack a lover? Your Highness, don’t you feel disgusted looking at the ugly face of Moodys Bricania every day?”

After Zhuo Yang destroyed everything, he had already given up.

“I don’t allow you to insult my sentinel. His scars are left by the war for the country and are a hero’s medal!” Zhuo Yang couldn’t bear to hear anyone insult Moodys. Hearing this, even his expression changed, and slapped Lin Xuan’s face.

“Crack—”

A direct slap smashed Lin Xuan’s face to the side.Don’t know how much strength he used – there was a trace of blood left on the corner of Lin Xuan’s mouth.

Seeing this, the audience watching exploded. Straightforwardly dealing with such scumbags, the crown princess is right to protect his husband.

“Your sentinel, do you think it’s a hero’s medal? Do you really think so in your heart? Your Highness—” Lin Xuan spat bloody spit and wiped away the blood stains from the corner of his mouth. “I’m afraid you’re acting. Acting so much, you must have forgotten what you are? Your Highness, do you really love Moodys?”

Zhuo Yang sneered: “Of course.”

“Oh, do you love Moodys or the power in his hands? You know it in your heart.” Lin Xuan glared at him fiercely, like a desperate thug. “Do you think no one knows about your relationship with Secretary General Gordon? The two of you, a pair of hard-working mandarin ducks, privately calculated everything for a long time… From the beginning, Zhuo Yu and I hooking up, was because you created the opportunity for us. All for the purpose of shaping your image as a white lotus, and to help you climb up to the seat of the crown princess… It’s all calculated by you guys!”

“You want to ruin our engagement, ruin Zhuo Yu’s chance to become the crown princess. You want to be the crown princess, and want to ascend to the highest position in the empire together with your Great Secretary Gordon. One becomes the crown prince’s pillow, and the other becomes Changdi Qing’s, to control the entire empire, the power of the entire royal family – these are all your conspiracy and tricks.” Lin Xuan said and took out a dozen photos from his briefcase, throwing them on the table where the camera can clearly capture them. Photos of Zhuo Yang and Gordon meeting in their youth, of Gordon privately helping Zhuo Yang deal with trivial matters, blocking the evidence of Zhuo Yang being framed by his stepmother…

From the very beginning, he didn’t come with the idea of ​​confessing to Zhuo Yang…

The confession is just an opening to let Zhuo Yang relax his vigilance. His purpose is to let Zhuo Yang reveal his true face in front of everyone.

He didn’t believe that once these things came out, Zhuo Yang could still maintain his determination, maintain his high popularity, and continue to sit as a noble imperial crown princess.

“Can you deny it? Dare you deny it? Your Highness, there is no airtight wall in the world. Don’t think that no one knows the private connections between you and Secretary General Gordon. He has helped you get so many things and block so many plots from your stepmother. This is evidence… Don’t think you can continue to pretend that you don’t know each other. You are Pan Jinlian and Ximen Qing,3Reference to some Chinese historical drama (or perhaps personages) secretly waiting to murder the crown prince? Isn’t that right?” Lin Xuan kept slandering Zhuo Yang. “I’m really curious, with a face like Secretary General Gordon, and then with the face of the crown prince, how can you talk about love… Aren’t your embarrassed to think so in your heart? Whether your true love is the crown prince or Secretary General Gordon, you know it yourself. It’s a pity that the crown prince doesn’t know the truth, and is still kept in the dark.”

He didn’t believe that after saying so much, that Zhuo Yang could continue to maintain his composure and not show panic.

In the end, Lin Xuan also added a sentence for himself: “Everyone scolds Zhuo Yu for seducing his brother’s marriage partner, and scolds me as a scumbag who dislikes your low mental strength and betrays you… They don’t know this is all due to your calculations.

After he said these words, the entire Interstellar Internet exploded.

Everyone was stunned.

“What’s going on? What the hell is going on here? Isn’t this a program arranged by the Crown Princess and the program team, and was found out by Lin Xuan… and he tried to do something to clean himself up?”

“The Crown Princess and Secretary General Gordon, is this true?”

“Looking at what Lin Xuan said, the photos and evidence should be true, right?”

“Is everything about the crown princess a disguise? His image, etc. My God, I don’t want to believe…”

“Is Zhuo Yang really taking advantage of His Royal Highness?”

“God, poor His Royal Highness, I thought he had met a good man, but I didn’t expect it to be another Rand Corey…”

Zhuo Yang laughed while listening to Lin Xuan’s sophistry. “Even if I provide you with some convenience to facilitate you and Zhuo Yu? How can this be called my scheming? What about it?”

“Did I give you aphrodisiacs to make you roll together? Or did I put a knife on your neck to force you to bond? It’s really funny. If you didn’t already have those thoughts, one disliking a guide with low mental strength, and one disliking His Royal Highness’ body and refusing to marry, how would you get together? I just provided you with more opportunities.” Zhuo Yang was arrogant.

There are never any photos or evidence of him and Gordon being overly intimate or close.

These things, at most, can prove that he and Gordon knew each other at a young age, and Gordon has done a lot of things for him.

Lin Xuan didn’t expect him to remain so confident at this stage. “Everyone says that Zhuo Yu robbed your fiance, but I think the truth is that you robbed Zhuo Yu’s fiance and deliberately robbed him of the crown princess’s position. ”

“Do you dare to let His Royal Highness know about you and the Great Secretary General Gordon? Your Highness—” He thought he had grasped Zhuo Yang’s handle, and was quite confident. “You dare say ‘I love him’ to his face after he knows this?”

“Of course I dare.” Zhuo Yang slowly refilled a cup of coffee for himself. “Also, you are wrong about one thing – I didn’t rob Zhuo Yu’s fiance, let alone do any deliberate planning.”

“Because, the old marriage contract the Zhuo family has never been fulfilled is with the royal family, not with the crown prince. His Royal Highness never agreed before, but why he agreed now, is because of the object of the engagement – is me.” Zhuo Yang was full of confidence. “That is to say, even if I don’t make a fuss, Zhuo Yu can’t be the crown princess.”

Lin Xuan was stunned, completely unaware that there were additional twists.

Zhuo Yang stirred the coffee gently. “His Royal Highness and I have known each other from the beginning.”

“We have known each other for many, many years, before he and Rand met. He is my uncle with long legs. Because of his appearance, I finally saw the light. When my stepmother humiliated and tortured us, my mother was able to survive and didn’t die… because he who hired the top royal doctor for my mother.” There was an indescribable innocence in Zhuo Yang’s eyes as he stirred the coffee like a child. “Of course I love him… he said to me when we first met, ‘winter is over, and spring will soon come’ and said that my eyes are very beautiful.”

Lin Xuan was completely stunned on the spot.

“He knows everything about me,” Zhuo Yang continued. “Secretary General Gordon has never been a secret between us, so the thing you want to use to blackmail me really doesn’t seem like a secret. I’ve said it before, I just came here with the attitude of watching a joke and play, and can’t be coerced. If Moodys has the time, I’ll even invite him to come and watch.”

After Lin Xuan finished listening to his words, there was a long reverie. “What about Secretary General Gordon?”

“Why do you think Gordon wants to help me?” When Zhuo Yang speaks, he likes to only say half of it, making people misunderstand, and come up with their own interpretations. After knowing Lin Xuan’s misunderstanding, he deliberately said this.

Lin Xuan really misunderstood as he intended, falling to the ground, and said suddenly: “So it is, so it is…”

Zhuo Yang’s words that Moodys praised his beautiful eyes when he first saw him, are too ambiguous, leaving indescribable hints and warm ambiguity.

In addition, with Zhuo Yang question of ‘why do you think he will help me? ‘ and ‘His Royal Highness knows everything’, Lin Xuan’s mind immediately conjured that the person who had an affair with Zhuo Yang since he was young is not Gordon at all, but the crown prince. The crown prince played a game of raising…

Gordon is Changdi Qing’s lover, and Changdi Qing is the uncle of the crown prince.

All of Gordon’s care and private help to Zhuo Yang may have been inspired and secretly instructed by the crown prince, as were those secret, private meetings.

It was never accidental, but inevitable that Zhuo Yang became the crown princess.

It started when the crown prince praised him for his beautiful eyes and said to him ‘winter is over, spring will soon come’.

Lin Xuan felt as if he knew a big secret, a big story, and he was the cannon fodder who thought he was smart and had an important supporting role in this story and secret.

It was not only Lin Xuan who misunderstood Zhuo Yang’s meaning, but also the viewers watching the live broadcast. Everyone who had misunderstood Zhuo Yang just now felt as if they suddenly knew some shocking secret.

Everyone couldn’t help but sigh.

“I was just saying, I didn’t expect the crown princess to be such a crown princess. Now I think this sentence should be changed to – I didn’t expect the crown prince to be such a crown prince.”

“My God. Before Rand knew the crown prince… The crown princess is only 20 this year, how young does that have to be?”

“The first time they met, he praised his beautiful eyes, and telling stories and what not. In fact, His Royal Highness’s hobby shouldn’t be raising a lover from childhood? In fact, think carefully about His Royal Highness and Rand in the past; although there were rumors of an affair, but the prince has always denied the news of any relationship. “

“So, His Royal Highness has been waiting for His Highness to grow up, right?”

“Don’t know how sweet it is! Is it because my three views are wrong?”

“Knowing each other for so long, since don’t know what age. The crown princess is so beautiful, he must have been super fresh when he was a teenager! His Royal Highness is a beast!”

…

“His Royal Highness did not want to implicate me or be with me at first, but I always thought that he gave me spring, gave me a hope, and I should give him spring and hope…” Zhuo Yang enjoyed the frustrated and confused look on Lin Xuan’s face very much, so he talked nonsense and showed off his love. His tone was very sweet when speaking about Moodys.

He didn’t know that he was being watched by all the netizens watching the live broadcast.

At this moment, Zhuo Yang’s personal terminal suddenly rang, and Gordon and the crown prince sent a message at the same time, saying that the people behind the scenes had been found.

Zhuo Yang closed his personal terminal, then stood up. “Okay, I’m done watching the show. It’s time to do something serious and meet this behind-the-scenes messenger.”

Seeing him get up, Lin Xuan wanted to move.

Outside the door, a group of hidden royal guards disguised as ordinary customers rushed out. Without saying a word, they aimed blades and energy guns at Lin Xuan and controlled him.

Zhuo Yang walked out quite calmly surrounded by guards.

In order to take care of his life, Gordon was very efficient, and quickly dug up his own family: his half-brother and aunt.

He was young at the time, so many of the relationships and things under him that helped Zhuo Yang came from his family’s own forces.

As the mistress4As in female ‘master’, not lover of the Corey family, as long as she checks carefully, Rand’s mother can easily find photos. Mrs. Jenny, Rand’s aunt and the crown prince’s aunt, was also involved.

Gordon sent the news to Zhuo Yang, and at this time, the crown prince and Gu Che also rushed to the Corey house with others…

Mrs. Jenny and Rand had no sense of crisis. They thought they just exposed the true face of the crown princess, and did nothing wrong, so they didn’t run away.

When Moodys and Gu Che arrived, the three of them were still drinking tea together.

“Moodys, why are you here? Is it because you know that your crown princess is not a good thing and are going to divorce him?” Mrs. Jenny, relying on her identity as Moodys’ aunt, tried to draw closer to him.

Rand also spoke very coldly and arrogantly: “Your Royal Highness, others always say that I am not good, greedy, vane, and selfishly abandoned you when you had an accident, and got together with your brother. Now you should know that crown princess who came from a poor household is not a good thing? He has an affair with my ‘good brother’ and climbs up you, only with Gordon in his heart and doesn’t love you at all.”

“Misunderstanding his love for you, aren’t you sad and humiliated?” The live broadcast isn’t a surprise to them, so Moodys finding them so quickly is normal.

They didn’t watch Zhuo Yang’s live broadcast…

But based on timing, Zhuo Yang has already lost his reputation in the entire empire by now.

 

ZY pitted Moodys to gain a pedo-bear label.

 

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1The term used is “xiao san” or mistress, but mistress isn’t for males.2333… = sound of laughing3Reference to some Chinese historical drama (or perhaps personages)4As in female ‘master’, not lover