fynovel Chapter 535: The scar on his heart
Chapter 535: The scar on his heart
"Xinyi? Are you talking about the one who was in the cradle when I went to play with you?" Zhai Tianyu asked as he popped his head out of the wooden screen behind which he was changing clothes. He would not have done it but it was in fact too shocking for him to stay calm. He was not old but he was definitely much older than Ji Xinyi. "Isn't she like twelve or thirteen?"
She was yet to turn fifteen and he was already going to be twenty years old very soon.
"Yes and Yes she is thirteen," Ji Yu replied causing Zhai Tianyu to crash on the ground. Almost. He changed his clothes and stepped out of the wooden divider before walking to his bed and saying, "Why did you not stop her? Xinyi is too young to be thrown in the mess of harem." More importantly, it would be weird for him to share a bed chamber with a thirteen-year-old girl.
It would be even more weird than Liu Hui Ying who was sixteen when they got married and then turned seventeen a month later. Though she looked rather underdeveloped when she married him, Liu Hui Ying was getting better and looked more womanly rather than a girl. But that was because she was turning eighteen soon!
Ji Xinyi was too young for him!
"Why did you not stop her?" He could not help but blame Ji Yu who rolled her eyes and then stretched her legs. She then said,
"How can I stop her? Do you think that she would listen to me just because I asked her to stop? My aunt is obsessed with the idea of getting the throne.
Of course, if they refused to leave then he could not do anything. He would give them the freedom to do whatever they wanted to do and even if they wanted to make the top of his head a prairie, he would not say anything as long as they did not ask him to give the right to throne to those children.
Ji Yu smiled sadly. She knew that Zhai Tianyu would refuse. He looked like he was easy going but he had his own stubbornness. Because of the revolt that Empress Dowager did, he refused to have his children scattered all over the place.
"I understand," Ji Yu nodded. She wanted to say something more but before she could say another word the sound of Eunuch Li came from outside their room.
"Your majesty," Eunuch Li sounded hesitant as he did not know what was happening inside the bedchambers of Zhai Tianyu and thought that he was disturbing Ji Yu and Zhai Tianyu. "It..Its——"
"It's me, come out your majesty. Something happened to the Empress," Zhai Heng spoke up when he saw that Eunuch Li was taking his sweet time to announce his arrival.
Ji Yu saw the change in Zhai Tianyu's eyes, even though he still seemed casual, his eyes were sharper and his muscles were taut as he pulled the robe that was lying on the wooden divider and draped it on his shoulders.
Ji Yu did not rush after him at once, instead, she opened her hair and ruffled her clothes to make it look like they did something before rushing after Zhai Tianyu who slid the door open and looked at Zhai Heng before demanding, "What happened to the Empress?"
Zhai Heng noticed the nervousness in Zhai Tianyu's eyes and the anger in his heart lessened. At least he did not make a mistake by pulling himself away from Liu Hui Ying. He looked at his brother and then said, "The Empress was attacked by assassins."