Chapter 29 - The Empress Wants to Kill Someone
Ding-dong.
Early in the morning, Zhou Yan arrived at Lin Fan’s door and rang the doorbell.
Last night, he had suddenly received a message from Lin Fan, asking him to come find him today if he had time, as he had a favor to ask.
And so, he had specially rushed over first thing in the morning.
Click.
The door opened. Longyue, with her hair down, rubbed her sleepy eyes and looked at the person at the door with a puzzled expression.
Looking at the beautifully featured Longyue dressed in cute pajamas, Zhou Yan couldn't help but be dumbfounded.
He considered himself to have seen countless beautiful women and believed his heart was long since unfazed by them, but seeing the person before him, he couldn't help but be instantly stunned by her beauty.
This woman was far too otherworldly and ethereal!
She was just like a fairy…
“Who are you looking for?” Longyue asked.
Zhou Yan came back to his senses, hurriedly gave a sheepish smile, and lowered his head to apologize.
“Sorry, I think I’ve come to the wrong...”
With that, Zhou Yan turned around and continued up the stairs, scratching the back of his head while muttering to himself:
“Could it be that I haven’t been here in so long that I’ve even gone to the wrong house for Lin Fan?”
He had been to Lin Fan’s house many times and could find it with his eyes closed. Today was really strange...
After walking a few steps, he sensed something was wrong again and quickly stopped, turning to look at the room number he had just knocked on.
“That’s not right! 520… this is the right room!”
Zhou Yan’s expression showed his shock. He returned to the front of the door again to examine it carefully and repeatedly.
After another careful verification, he was one thousand percent certain that he had not gone to the wrong place. This was Lin Fan’s home!
But why was it a woman who opened the door…?
“Who was that at the door just now?”
“I don’t know, seemed like someone who went to the wrong door.”
“The wrong door…”
Zhou Yan pressed his ear against the door and faintly heard a conversation inside. The man’s voice seemed very similar to Lin Fan’s. After hesitating for a moment, he rang the doorbell again.
Ding-dong.
Click.
The door opened again. This time, it was Lin Fan who opened it.
Seeing that it was Zhou Yan, Lin Fan hurriedly stepped aside to welcome him.
“Yan Zi, I was just thinking that person earlier couldn’t have been you. And here you are. Quick, come in.”
Zhou Yan walked through the door and immediately saw Longyue sitting at the dining table, eating a fried egg.
Longyue had a whole fried egg in her mouth. She blinked her clear, bright eyes, her entire person looking a bit dazed and cute.
“Lin Fan, this lady is…?” Zhou Yan asked curiously.
“Her? She’s a friend of mine.”
“Her name is Lin Longyue,” Lin Fan said, stepping forward to introduce her.
Longyue swallowed the fried egg in one gulp and gave a polite nod towards Zhou Yan.
“Hello.”
“Hello, my name is Zhou Yan.”
Zhou Yan smiled politely, then his gaze sharpened. He hooked an arm around Lin Fan’s shoulder and quickly pulled him into a corner.
“Lin Fan! Tell your bro the truth, what exactly is she to you!”
“Just an ordinary friend…”
Zhou Yan’s eyes narrowed, an expression on his face that said, “You think I’d believe that?” He then swept his gaze across the living room and poked his head in to look at the bedroom.
He wouldn't have known if he hadn't looked, but one look gave him a shock.
On the 1.8-meter-wide bed, there were clearly two pillows!
“Brother, are you telling me that you two live under the same roof, eat together, sleep in the same bed, she’s wearing your pajamas, and yet you are just ‘ordinary’ friends?”
As he spoke, Zhou Yan deliberately emphasized the word ‘ordinary’, an “are you kidding me” expression on his face.
Lin Fan fell into an embarrassed silence, at a loss for how to explain for a moment.
Indeed, to an outsider, them living together, eating together, and sleeping together, it was hard not to associate them as a couple. But the problem was, they really weren't right now…
His relationship with the Empress was particularly complicated; it was really not easy to explain clearly.
Seeing Lin Fan’s silence, Zhou Yan took it as a tacit admission. He pulled him in even tighter, his heart filled with both happiness for him and a great deal of envy and jealousy.
“You brat! To think you’d betray the revolution and secretly hide a beauty in a golden house behind your brother's back! That’s too much! We promised to be single nobles together!”
“But I can understand, it’s all sister-in-law’s fault for being too charming...”
“For sister-in-law to be so beautiful, you brat, you really lucked out!”
“She’s really not…”
Lin Fan tried to explain weakly.
However, Zhou Yan didn't believe him at all. A brilliant smile appeared on his face as he turned his head and greeted Longyue again enthusiastically:
“Hello, sister-in-law~”
Crack!
Longyue, who was happily eating, heard this and was instantly so angry that she snapped the chopsticks in her hand. Her cheek twitched slightly as she turned her head, revealing a terrifying, murderous glint in her eyes.
“What did you just call this Empress?”
She really didn't understand why so many people would mistake her for the Demon Sovereign’s woman.
Even this man, upon first meeting! Actually called her sister-in-law!
What part of her looked like the Demon Sovereign’s woman!
“Er… sister-in-law?”
Zhou Yan was startled and cautiously repeated himself. He then turned his head to look at Lin Fan with a blank expression and asked in a hushed voice:
“Why did sister-in-law suddenly become so scary? What’s wrong?”
“It’s nothing. It’s probably her period, so she’s in a bad mood.”
It was difficult for Lin Fan to explain, so he just made up a random excuse.
He had no choice. He couldn't possibly tell him, “you called her sister-in-law, and now she wants to kill you”, could he…
Just as Lin Fan and Zhou Yan were talking in low voices, they were unaware that every single word of their conversation had fallen into Longyue’s ears.
Longyue slowly stood up and walked straight towards the kitchen.
Seeing this, Zhou Yan proactively and enthusiastically said:
“Sister-in-law, do you need to get something? Do you want me to help?”
The moment his voice fell, the killing intent on Longyue intensified. Her whole body trembled slightly with anger, and her hand gripped the handle of the kitchen knife.
Seeing this scene, Lin Fan hurriedly dashed into the kitchen in a single bound and grabbed her hand, which was holding the knife, from behind.
“Calm down! Calm down, Empress!”
“Killing someone here has legal responsibilities! Once you kill him, we won’t be able to live here anymore!”
“Let go! Let this Empress kill him! This mortal dares to humiliate this Empress again and again!”
“Don’t you worry, this Empress will clean it up perfectly. No one will find out!”
Longyue struggled with all her might to break free from Lin Fan’s hands. This kind of reckless impulse showed that her head was clearly muddled by anger.
“That’s not the issue, okay!”
Lin Fan was helpless. He had no choice but to wrap one arm around her waist and use his other hand to forcefully hold down the kitchen knife in her hand.
Whether it was to prevent her from causing a great disaster or to save his best friend’s life, he absolutely could not let her make a move…
The two of them engaged in a silent struggle over the kitchen knife in the kitchen. But what Zhou Yan saw from his perspective was an affectionate scene of Lin Fan hugging Longyue from behind, holding her hand to chop vegetables together.
“Sigh, I never thought this guy Lin Fan would be so good at coaxing women now~”
Zhou Yan rubbed the tip of his nose, a pleased smile on his face.
This brat specially called him over, only to be all lovey-dovey with his girlfriend first thing in the morning, without any regard for the occasion. Could it be that he was specifically trying to show off his loving relationship in front of him?
Honestly~