Chapter 106

106 Unclear emotions

If Zhai Tianyu wanted he could have punished the maid but then he decided against it, he didn’t want to become the tyrant that Liu Hui Ying has accused him to be by killing an innocent life just because she was trying to protect her mistress. He drew in a breath and then closed his eyes before he opened them again when he was done clearing his head and calmed the blood of a ruler coursing in his veins that was asking him to send the head of this maid flying for lying to him.

” Get up and clean the bed,” he ordered, he could see that Liu Hui Ying’s skin was breaking into red marks and from all the whines she was making, those red marks must be hurting her. When she told him that he was allergic to men, he never once thought that her condition was this bad but he couldn’t do anything other than bring her with him, if he was to leave her in the hands of someone else then her condition might have become even worse.

Qui Ai was stunned when she heard the emperor asking her to clean the bed but when she snuck a glance at the person, the Emperor was holding in his arms, she stiffened as if she has been struck by lightning– the Queen.....the Queen was caught by the Emperor!

” Your majesty, this .. the queen was just missing her mother and that’s why–”

” You don’t have to lie for her unless my dead mother-in-law’s soul is hovering in the brothel, which is highly unlikely given that she was a woman of great pride and elegance, I don’t see why the queen was at that place,” Zhai Tianyu wasn’t willing to punish the queen by killing her but that didn’t change the fact that she broke the rules of the imperial palace, no concubine including the Empress was allowed to go out of the palace without written permission from him.

Qui Ai’s face turned pale as she looked at the Emperor in shock, the queen was found in the brothel. No this wasn’t going to be good all right.

” Tell her that she is not allowed to leave her courtyard for the time being,” this was the most lenient punishment that he can think of at the moment, if he was to ignore her then his brother and Yu Lingyun would think that he was being too nice to the Queen by not punishing her.

A punishment was necessary.

Qui Ai too thought that this punishment was still better than being taught a lesson by the Emperor, so she bowed her head and thanked Zhai Tianyu. ” This one thanks the emperor for his grace.”

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After thanking the emperor she got to her feet and then started cleaning the bed before taking a step back and then allowing the Emperor to let Liu Hui Ying down on the bed.

Zhai Tianyu lay Liu Hui Ying on the bed and ignored the subtle pang in his heart that rang in his body as soon as he helped Liu Hui Ying to the bed. His gaze fell on the red marks that were spread all over her skin and then turned to Qui Ai before asking, ” Do you know how to treat these red marks?”

If she didn’t then he will have to call an imperial physician but at the same time, he was hesitant to call an imperial physician after all even the imperial physician in the palace were all men, if he was to call them wouldn’t Liu Hui Ying’s allergy flare up even more?

” Her majesty always has such a reaction when she is in contact with a man,” answered Qui Ai just as Liu Hui Ying moaned in pain, seeing her in pain Qui Ai’s eyes reddened and then she blinked her eyes to will the tears away. ” I don’t know why her body reacts like this when she is close to men but this is what happened when she is touched by a man.”

” Is there no way for her to recover?” Zhai Tianyu frowned as he asked the little maid, for Liu Hui Ying to react like this every time she was touched by a man, wasn’t it something really severe, if this goes on then how will they get along–wait, Zhai Tianyu slapped his cheek as soon as the thought came to his head startling Qui Ai who raised her head and then dropped at once before cautiously asking, ” Your majesty?”

“It’s nothing,” Zhai Tianyu said as he turned his head away from Liu Hui Ying’s extremely red face and then turned around to leave her bedroom, his cheeks getting heated up as he hurriedly said, ” Take care of the Queen, Zhen ...Zhen will come and see her if Zhen gets the time.”

With that, he strode out of the room in a flurry.

Qui Ai watched him leave and then tilted her head in confusion, she couldn’t understand what was going on in the head of the Emperor. Why did he suddenly slap himself and then leave like something was chasing him? Wasn’t it the Emperor who said that a ruler never runs?

She blinked her eyes before she turned to look at the Queen and anxiously exclaimed, ” Oh your majesty, what did you get yourself into?”

As she spoke, she hurried to the bathhouse where she picked up a water vat filled with warm water and then rushed outside to clean her mistress, she knew that the allergy will not go down for a few hours but the least she could do was to hurry the process right?

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Qui Ai was worried about Liu Hui Ying and Zhai Tianyu was also worried about her but his worry was completely different from Qui Ai’s, he couldn’t believe that even for a second he thought of Liu Hui Ying as his wife, how can he do something like this? She was his enemy.

The daughter of the most corrupt official of his court and yet ... he was having such thoughts about her? Was he sick in his head?

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