Rebirth As a Fatuous and Self-indulgent Ruler
chapter-171

When he returned to Qiankun Palace, Shi was already waiting for him at the table.

Long was elated. When he came in, he laughed happily.

Looking at Long’s expression, Shi knew that he’d successfully taken revenge.

Sure enough. Long laughed and said, “Qingzhou, you don’t know how interesting that man’s reaction was. Haha, I asked fifty Shadow Guardians to beat him. Haha, you know what? His face has become swollen at last. The Shadow Guardians are cool. They didn’t let me down!”

Long’s words made the corners of Shi’s mouth turn upward. Shi asked softly, “Oh really?”

“Yeah, Qingzhou, you don’t know…”

Long told Shi what happened this morning in delight.

While talking about that, Long beamed with joy.

Hearing that Doctor Liu ended up so miserable, Shi also laughed.

“Liu Suifeng must look very bad,” Shi said while laughing

“Yes. Qingzhou, it really gladdened my heart! He deserves this! Humph!”

Shi chuckled. “It’s a pity I wasn’t there.”

Shi didn’t feel a little bit sorry for Doctor Liu.

“Yes, it’s a pity, but it doesn’t matter. If he hurts you in the future, I’ll beat him again!”

Shi smiled. “Will you really do that? Aren’t you afraid that he’ll be angry and leave?”

“Well.” Long touched his chin. “I haven’t thought about that. He shouldn’t be so timid, should he?”

Shi smiled. “That’s right.”

“All right, let’s not talk about him. Qingzhou, are you hungry?”

Shi nodded. “Yes.”

Long held Shi’s hand. “Why didn’t you ask them to deliver the breakfast?”

“I was just about to do it.” Shi smiled.

“Oh no!” Long clapped his hands. “I forgot to ask him for the antidote.”

Shi smiled and said, “Doctor Liu won’t go too far. Since he said not to take antidote in a month, it’s better to wait for a month.”

“Well…” Long looked at Shi unhappily.

Shi smiled. “If you really want it, I’ll go to ask him.”

“No need.” Long sighed. “Your body matters.”

Shi raised his eyebrows. “Really? I don’t think you’re happy.”

“I am happy,” Long immediately said, “Of course, it’s your body that matters. Why would I not be happy? I’m just angry that Liu Suifeng hurt you.”

Shi smiled. “You’ve taught him a lesson, haven’t you?”

Moreover, Doctor Liu actually didn’t do anything wrong at all!

“Well… All right.” Long shrugged. “We’ve already beaten him… Just let him go.”

After breakfast was delivered, Long and Shi began to eat.

Although Long didn’t attend the morning meeting, he still needed to deal with the memorials.

After Long went to work, Shi went to Liu Suifeng’s place.

Doctor Liu’s face had been covered with ointment. Once he saw Shi, he began to attack him with a sword.

Shi dodged and began to fight with him.

Half a quarter of an hour later, both Doctor Liu and Shi stopped.

“Shi Qingzhou, shame on you. You can’t tell him your secret, so you framed me?”

Shi smiled. “You are not completely innocent. I suffered partly because of you.”

“You…” Doctor Liu glared at Shi.

“You know the reason, don’t you?”

“The reason is not important. It is the result that matters now.”

“Shi Qingzhou.” Doctor Liu stopped being angry and even wanted to laugh. “Don’t you think you’re shameless?”

Shi shrugged. “When a man’s life is threatened, he won’t have the sense of shame.”

“Then why did you come here?” Doctor Liu couldn’t help asking.

Shi said calmly, “I want you to do something with me.”

“Oh? What do you want me to do?” Doctor Liu was a little confused.

Shi said, “To kill.”

Doctor Liu raised his eyebrows. “What do you mean? I don’t understand.”

Shi said with a smile, “To kill those who should be killed.”

Doctor Liu looked at Shi and said, “Killing can also affect your emotions. If you insist on it, the poisonous insect in your body won’t be sealed for a month.”

Shi said calmly, “I just stand by and you guard there. If there are great martial artists, you fight them. As for the others, the Shadow Guardians will deal with them.”

After a short silence, Doctor Liu said, “Give me one good reason.”

Shi smiled and said, “Because you think life is so boring. I’ll make your life more interesting. Isn’t that okay?”

Doctor Liu found it unbelievable and his eyes widened.

“Shi Qingzhou, you…”

“Don’t say that I’m shameless,” Shi interrupted him, “Those who think life is boring have different eyes. I understand, because I was also one of them.”

Doctor Liu was really surprised.

Shi said calmly, “Isn’t that right?”

Doctor Liu kept silent for a long time. Then, he sighed. “Well, you have convinced me.”

Shi smiled. It seemed that he didn’t feel surprised at all.

Doctor Liu said, “When will we take action? People of Eastern Darkness and Northern Barbarians are not only hiding in the imperial city, right?”

“Yes, but we can deal with those who are in the imperial city first.” Shi’s voice was full of coldness.

Doctor Liu nodded. “Kill people in the daytime… Aren’t you afraid that it will cause chaos in the city?”

“They should be killed,” Shi said coldly.

“Does Long Xiaoyuan know?” Doctor Liu asked.

“No.” Shi responded indifferently. Before Doctor Liu said anything more, Shi had turned around and walked out.

Doctor Liu’s lips twitched. He thought that this man… was not polite at all.

But… was his life boring?

Yes. Doctor Liu really felt that life was boring…

In this case, he would just play with Shi.

It seemed more interesting than doing research…

Both the emperor and empress were really interesting. Doctor Liu thought that this trip was worth it…

Thinking about that, Doctor Liu leisurely followed Shi.

Long was dealing with state affairs in the imperial study. This time, Shi told him before going out.

“Oh? You’re going out again? For what?” Long asked.

Shi said, “To do something.”

Long’s lips twitched. “What is it?”

Instead of telling him the truth, Shi just said, “You’ll know by the afternoon.”

“What?” What did that mean? Long found that he didn’t really know his empress.

Shi smiled. “Wait for me. I’ll come back before dinner.”

Seeing that Shi was so serious, Long stopped saying anything more.

“All right, I’ll wait for you to have dinner with me.”

After Shi left, Long felt a little uneasy. He thought something would happen.

He didn’t think that his empress would have an accident, but… it may have something to do with him!

In the afternoon, several ministers begged for an audience and Long finally realized why Shi told him those words earlier…

He was told that a lot of people were dead in the imperial city.

And all those people were killed by others!

Several masked men with great martial arts rushed into their houses and killed them in broad daylight!

Long gasped in astonishment. Instinctively, he felt that this matter must have something to do with his empress!

With their influence, they had found some moles in the imperial city.

However, they were still not sure whether some of them were working for Eastern Darkness.

Moreover, none of them seemed to be influential.

So, they had decided to wait for a period of time.

Why did Shi suddenly kill those moles?

In addition, Shi didn’t tell Long that he would do that!

Long didn’t know what Shi was going to do.

Some ministers went to meet the emperor because assassins went to their houses and some of them went there after they heard the news.

Although Long didn’t know what Shi was doing, he wouldn’t be a drag on Shi.

So, Long went to meet those ministers and planned not to let them go until Shi came back.

“This is the last place today,” Shi said in front of a red mansion.

Doctor Liu nodded indifferently. “They’re just a bunch of useless idiots.”

Shi smiled. “Tomorrow, we will know if there are some great martial artists hiding in the city.”

“But, you’re not going to deal with Tianji Sect? Isn’t it the mistress there who poisoned you?”