Falling Dreams of Fang Hua ✔

Chapter 058

His smile was so cheerful. I felt like the victim of his latest prank, my mind filled with a buzzing drone. He hugged me very tightly, enough for me to feel his body temperature...I took a deep breath and said in a shaking voice, "When did you find out?"

He paused, before dragging out the answer. "I've known you all my life."

I'd be holding myself back all this time, yet he'd saw through me from the first moment.

"Very good," I lowered my head, lips curving up into an ironic smile before laughing at him. It startled him...and I used a bit of inner qi to easily push aside his hand, pinching his chin while my other hand closed around his neck. Although surprised, he continued to smile, raising an eyebrow as if confident in his success. His eyes slanted sideways to look at me before lightly waving his hand, causing the wine cups on the table to clatter against the ground....

"Emperor, is anything the matter?"

The silence that had stretched on like dead water was immediately thrown into disorder. The doors were forced open, and a crowd of soldiers wearing armor entered, pointing their shiny weapons at me...this battle array...seemed to have been prepared ahead of time just to counter my move. Han Zichuan, did you even anticipate such a thing?

I looked at him, copying his earlier moves as I leaned in to whisper in his ear. "Do you think they can stop me?" My grip on his throat tightened. "With you here, I'm not afraid of anything."

His eyes twinkled briefly before adopting an expression of deep sorrow.

"General Qi's daughter has taken the emperor hostage and rebelled."

"You traitor! Don't think of doing anything to his majesty or hurting his body!" The people outside were rather clever, shouting one after the other without anyone taking a step forward. I squinted.

"Is there anything aifei wants to tell Zhen?"

"Shut up."

"But Zhen has words to say," Despite being held captive by me, he still raised a hand to pat my shoulder comfortingly, the other hugging me around my waist. "All of you, back down. Without Zhen's commands, no one can come in."

The crowd stood looking at each other. I grew angry and muttered in a muffled voice, "Leaving isn't allowed." At least let the two of us leave first...before you all scatter.

"You're losing your temper again," Though I had him in my grip, he still managed to look at me with a doting expression. Meanwhile, the various guards and servants had slowly started to back away. A damned servant sprawled on the ground to sneak a peek at me, before pulling the door after him in terror. It closed with a pah!, leaving the noisy rabble outside. What kind of situation was this...?

There were only the two of us left in this room. The lamplight flickered as noise resounded across the floors, making my expression turn black.

"Look at you, you're always so muddle-headed when you do things so it's easy to predict your actions," he gave me a sideways glance, eyes roving from my face to my neck. I glared at him before speaking quietly.

"You're not even worried about the fates of the Qi Family you mentioned? Conspiring against the throne isn't a nice accusation."

"So what?" he said.

Despite my smile, my eyes turned cold as from his words. "I'm only concerned with you. All matters of life-and-death from this incident rests in your hands. I'm not going to beg forgiveness on behalf of your aifei's family."

"You still don't understand?" he took a deep breath before actually daring to caress my face. "Zhen only has one empress."

Surprised, my heart began to pound-not from being moved, but from uneasy shock. "What did you do to her?"