The Deposed Empress' Return

Blood pooled below Zhu Qingling as he watched his most trusted maid stab him with the dagger he gave her as a sign of his gratitude towards her. He couldn't believe it. So with great difficulty, he gripped the hem of her dress and with a shaky breath he asked her.

"Why?"

She squatted down to reach his height and gripped his chin tightly, forcing him to look at her. She scanned his face as jealousy filled her brown eyes and with the dagger on her other hand she traced the edges of his nose, eyes and lip before plunging its blade in his eyes. A frightful and painful scream escaped his lips as he cried tears of blood while touching his now blind eyes.

"Why? Because you are weak! Who do you think you are to have the right to be my master? You are nothing but a deposed empress! You can give me nothing but she can!" she spat at him as she slapped him hard making him fall face first on the ground as he groaned out of pain.

"Who is she?" Zhu Qingling asked weakly.

"Ha! Even if I tell you who she is, you won't have the chance to get revenge cause you'll be dead by then. But let me tell you her name since you're dying anyways" she placed her lips on his ears as she whispered "Wu Chuntao".

After saying those words, she stabbed him once more at his heart and left him lying on the cold floor with blood gushing out of his chest, stomach and eyes as he muttered something before breathing his last. After he died, a silhouette of a person was standing in front of his door with a shocked face as tears streamed down his cheeks. He never got the chance to see how he was cradled in that person's arms.

'Is this how it feels like to die?' Zhu Qingling thought to himself as he scanned his surroundings.

Everything was black. The feeling of being sucked in a whirlpool was evident. He was very nauseated at the weird feeling. He never thought that death would be like this. He was spinning into nothingness until everything came into a stop and a blinding light washed over the night-like surrounding. A loud voice echoed in the night land saying.

"FOR YOU, A CHANCE WILL BE GIVEN. A CHANCE TO REDEEM AND AVENGE YOURSELF. GOOD LUCK, EMPRESS"

After those words were finished, he found himself being sucked again into something he doesn't know nor does he want to.

"What the heck is happening to me?" Zhu Qingling was on the verge of panicking and shouting his lungs out.

An ear-piercing sound entered his ears and a throbbing headache was felt. He placed his hand on his head as he massaged his temples. He was going to put his hand back down when he accidentally placed them on a hard surface. He began tracing the hard surface with his fingertips. He furrowed beautiful eyebrows as he continued tracing it downwards. Only to be stopped by a sudden hard grip by someone strong.

"My Empress, what's the feeling of tracing the pecks of this Emperor?" a deep sexy voice woke him up from his slumber.

His phoenix eyes widened as he abruptly sat up but was halted when he felt pain on his lower region. He let out a small whimper and touched his backside.

"Forgive me my Empress for being to hard on you last night" the same man he was caressing wrapped an arm around his small waist and placed kisses on his milky white neck while occasionally sucking it to produce marks.

"Mmhh~~..." he bit his lip to prevent the lewd moan coming out of his mouth.

"What the hell is happening?!" he thought to himself as he took a peek at the man beside him who was kissing his neck.

"How was our first night, my Empress?" the man muttered against his skin which made shivers run down his spine.

"First night?!..."

"My Emperor?" he asked as if shocked and confused.

"Hm? What's wrong my Empress? Are you unsatisfied with my performance last night?" the man asked as he slowly furrowed his eyebrows in a confused manner.

"It really is you..." Zhu Qingling whispered as he reached for the Emperor's face, caressing his thumb over the other's cheek.

The Emperor held his hand and kissed it.

"Is there something wrong, Ling-er?" the Emperor asked him.

"Nothing A-Yuan..." he felt happiness bubbling up in him as he unconsciously called the Emperor in a very intimate manner.

"Say that again" the Emperor ordered him.

"Say what, my Emperor?" he asked confusedly.

"Call me A-Yuan again" the Emperor closed the distance between them by kissing Zhu Qingling's kissable lips.

Zhu Qingling found his hands combing the Emperor's hair as he wrapped his arms around his neck while the Emperor hugged his waist tighter than before with his long hands roaming against Zhu Qingling's naked body. The Emperor stopped their make out session by placing his thumb over the other's lips.

"Call me A-Yuan first"

"Ah... A-Yuan"

"Mmm... I like it. You have to call me in that way always" the Emperor said in a very deep voice and captured Zhu Qingling's lips once more.

"So I really did travel back in time huh?"

"Ah! Why did you bite me?" Zhu Qingling suddenly cried out while licking his lower bitten lip.

"You weren't concentrating" the Emperor laid him on the bed and towered over him while caressing his thighs as he placed the other's wrist above their heads.

"Y-your M-majesty it's broad daylight y-" Zhu Qingling was interrupted by the sudden kiss from the Emperor. Hands slightly probing on a certain spot that made him moan in the kiss.

"My Empress... I told you to call me A-Yuan"

After saying that, the Emperor and the Empress made love in broad daylight without a care to the world. Moaning and flesh slapping was heard in the room while nervous servants stood outside and waited for their masters to finish their thing.

Being caged by the most powerful man in the country wasn't so bad after all.