Judgment

As a minister of the external relations department, Zhou Zimu has always considered himself very competent.

Ever since he was appointed by Wang Chen, no, ever since he was appointed by His Majesty the Demon King, he knew that it was definitely not an easy job.

First of all, from the character analysis of His Majesty the Demon King.With His Majesty's character of immediately taking action when he thinks of it, it must be very tiring to serve under him.There is no guarantee that in the next second, His Majesty will suddenly come up with some new plan for him to complete.

Secondly, as a half-devil, it is not easy to do a good job in diplomatic work in this world full of monsters.Under the eyes of all kinds of discrimination, contempt and sarcasm, he has to carry out this important task tremblingly.Of course, in the eyes of the foreign demons, the Minister of Foreign Relations has always been expressionless and light-hearted.Zhou Zimu would never reveal the slightest bit of his thoughts to the outside world, it has always been like this.

In short, Zhou Zimu believes that in this job that even foreign demons are not capable of, what he has done is perfect enough.

Whether it's internal communication with other monsters, or external communication with the human demon removal team.He has already achieved a delicate balance, and built a bridge between His Majesty the Demon King, the monsters, and the demon removal team. Although the bridge is not wide enough, it can at least be walked on.

However, Zhou Zimu, who is very satisfied with his work, is now troubled by one thing - a thing that makes him very headache.

But the source of the headache was caused by His Majesty.

Right now, the study.

Zhou Zimu straightened his face and said to His Majesty, "Please take it back, Your Majesty."

His Majesty the Demon King looked at him, a little embarrassed: "You have to know, some things happen as they happen, and they can't be undone. It's like the water thrown away by a daughter who gets married..."

"Your Majesty, it was the water thrown by the married daughter."

"The essence is the same." His Majesty the Demon King frowned and said, "You are always so strict that you will be excluded by your subordinates."

"I think they excluded me because of who I am, not because of my character, Your Majesty."

His Majesty the Demon King turned his head and asked behind him. "Does he mean that I have mismanaged and protested against racism in my reign, William?"

"It's not your fault, Your Highness."

The monster steward turned his head and looked at Zhou Zimu.

"As a superior, but unable to win people's hearts and control subordinates, it is my own dereliction of duty. I can't handle the internal affairs well, and even come to complain to His Highness. This month's holiday will be cancelled."

"……Yes."

His Majesty the Demon King sympathized with his subordinates and said, "It's no magic power to cancel the holiday, so just deduct his bonus for this month."

"As you wish, Your Highness."

Zhou Zimu had no expression on his face, and secretly cursed himself.Knowing that the damn housekeeper is back, how could he be so stupid to come to His Majesty to protest.The deduction of bonuses and holidays is completely self-inflicted, and this butler has an extremely protective personality—especially when facing a certain majesty.

"Your Majesty, please think carefully about the previous decision." Regarding a certain matter, Zhou Zimu did not want to compromise until his death.

"What are you thinking about?" His Majesty the Demon King asked knowingly, "I think that decision is very good for both of you. Don't tell me, you think you can't handle a ghost yet?" After speaking, his face became serious. "You can't even deal with a ghost. Such a subordinate of the Demon King is really remiss. If this is the case, should I consider changing your position?"

"I think it's not whether I can solve the problem of the ghost, Your Majesty. It's that putting this ghost by my side will affect my work." Zhou Zimu said seriously: "If it affects work, many tasks assigned by His Majesty will not be completed.”

"I don't mind if you delay for a few days." His Majesty the Demon King said sincerely: "Since you are so worried, I will give you two days off and ask you to get in with each other when you go back. After you get in and get in without affecting your work, you can come back to work."

His Majesty then added another sentence.

"Of course, prepaid holidays are deducted from the following month."

Until Zhou Zimu left the study, his request was not approved by His Majesty.Not only that, but for various reasons, he was fined by His Majesty and given a holiday by the housekeeper.Before leaving, His Majesty the Demon King sighed whether it was intentional or unintentional.

"Brothers like you can be together but don't cherish it. You really don't know the blessing in the blessing."

As soon as this sentence was finished, Zhou Zimu immediately cried out.Sure enough, behind His Majesty, the butler was looking at him with a gaze that was more dazzling than lightning, and that gaze seemed to want to throw his cloth bag out of the study.Zhou Zimu knew that he was lying on the ground, so he shouldn't mention anything related to his brother in front of His Majesty the Demon King, especially when the butler is by His Majesty's side.

In the end, he was very lucky to walk out straight by himself.

Headache.Zhou Zimu rubbed his temples, feeling that working in this dark and turbulent castle, whether it was private or official, would take him ten years short.

As His Majesty ordered him to rest for two days, Zhou Zimu had no choice but to turn around and go back to his room.It is broad daylight now, presumably the ghost will not come out at this time, he can go back to the house to rest for a while.

His room was somewhere in the corner of the second floor of the castle. Zhou Zimu only valued one thing in choosing this place - seclusion.Basically, no one would come to this remote corner except himself.When choosing this room, Zhou Zimu thought he could finally get a little private space in a castle full of monsters.

In fact, in the first few months, that's exactly what happened.

And now-

As soon as he opened the door, Zhou Zimu saw a tray of steaming refreshments on the table.I don't know who sent it here specially, and carefully chose less sweet snacks and light tea according to Zhou Zimu's taste.After a tiring day at work and being reprimanded by the boss, it seems to be a relief for everyone to receive such caring care when returning home.

However, Zhou Zimu didn't think so.

He didn't seem to have seen the tray of snacks and tea at all, and went straight to another small door in the room, took off his clothes and went in, and began to shower.He took a cold shower, and now he needed cold water to calm down, otherwise he couldn't guarantee that he would do something irrational.

The water in the bathroom rang for a long time, and the meals on the table were cold.Those specially prepared snacks lost their temperature, and the delicious chocolate coating began to gradually melt, and they were destined to be neglected.

I don't know if it's an illusion, but there seems to be a faint sigh in the air.

After taking a shower, Zhou Zimu was taken aback when he was about to go out.Only then did he remember that when he came in just now, he seemed to have forgotten to bring a bath towel?Glancing at the pile of dirty clothes in the corner, he was torn between going out naked and picking up the dirty clothes to wear.

At this moment, the bathroom door was quietly pushed open, and a neat and clean bath towel was brought in in a basket.Zhou Zimu hesitated for a while, then scooped up the towel and used it. One minute later, when he opened the door and walked out, there was another set of clean clothes on the bed, neatly folded, as if waiting for him to use them.

Meals, bath towels, clothes.

These things were silently prepared just when he needed them. In this room where only Zhou Zimu was alone, it was like adding an invisible snail girl.But Zhou Zimu was not satisfied with this snail girl, he couldn't bear it anymore and said: "That's enough, stop pretending to be a ghost, come out!"

There was a tremor in the air, followed by an innocent and aggrieved voice.

"I thought you didn't want to see me."

A figure slowly emerged, he was standing very close to Zhou Zimu.So close that even Zhou Zimu could see his pale face and slender eyelashes clearly.

Be patient and don't back down, Zhou Zimu tried his best to be strong.

"I don't want to see you, but I don't want to live in a room like a haunted house." Staring at the figure, he said, "Even a ghost will show me. Hidden, who knows what you are doing secretly?"

"I'm not doing anything, I just want to help you, brother." The voice seemed even more aggrieved.The ghost, or Li Mingyi in the ghost state quietly, and tried his best to hold back his emotions, looked at Zhou Zimu.

"I see that you seem to be very tired today, I just want you to relax and have a rest."

Zhou Zimu didn't appreciate it, and snorted. "The culprit."

But he was really tired and didn't have the energy to argue with the ghost any more.

Seeing the neatly made bed, Zhou Zimu couldn't bear the urge to jump on it and sleep.He looked at the ghost in front of him, thinking that he did help him in the bathroom just now.

According to the principle of supremacy of interests, it seems that there is no need for him to reject such a ready-made servant?And Li Mingyi in this state can no longer threaten him.

So Zhou Zimu thought for a while and said, "I'm going to have a good rest these two days. If you can keep me from disturbing me and others from disturbing me, you can stay here temporarily. Otherwise, I will go against His Majesty's order and I need to invite an exorcist to kill you."

The ghost Li Mingyi just pretended not to hear the second half of the sentence, cheered and floated around the room.After a while, he returned to Zhou Zimu.

"I promise to do it! Then brother, what other things do you want me to do now?"

"Go and bring me a glass of water."

"As ordered!"

Watching the ghost disappear into the room in the blink of an eye, Zhou Zimu sighed softly.

"It's really convenient to be a ghost."

I am much more free than when I was a human being, and I have no concerns or constraints.It's just that among those souls that day, only Li Mingyi did not dissipate, and stayed behind as a ghost.Zhou Zimu couldn't figure out why only Li Mingyi was special.

Of course, His Majesty once said that obsession can conquer everything.

So the reason why Li Mingyi stayed is because he still has some obsessions in his heart?

Thinking about it, Zhou Zimu's eyelids gradually became a little bit tight.Difficulty swept over and overwhelmed everything in an instant.Before falling into a deep sleep, Zhou Zimu inexplicably remembered something—an old toy pistol that Wang Chen had given him.

Why...why do you suddenly think of that?

When Li Mingyi came back with boiling water, Zhou Zimu had already fallen asleep on the bed.This always calm and capable confidant of His Majesty the Demon King was sleeping like a child at this time.

Li Mingyi put down the teacup lightly, and floated forward, while Ju Zhou Zimu covered her with the quilt.When covering the quilt, his finger brushed Zhou Zimu's cheek, and he paused slightly.

A faint light came in from the window and shone on the ghost.

Li Mingyi's pale and transparent body seemed to disappear into the air in the next second.However, the joyful and happy smile on his face at this moment is so real and indelible.

"elder brother……"

Leaning lightly on Zhou Zimu's body, Li Mingyi felt the untouchable temperature, and called out in a low voice.

It seemed that after waiting for many years and suffering for a long time, it was only in exchange for a call that came from the end of suffering.

Shouting over and over again, as if clinging to an answer that could never be obtained, Li Mingyi smiled bitterly.

I don't know if it was because of sleepiness, but Zhou Zimu turned over in his dream.

He answered vaguely.

"kindness."

For a moment, Li Mingyi's hand trembled slightly.

--elder brother.

--Yep.

What a simple, yet rare conversation.It was enough to make Li Mingyi so happy that she almost couldn't help getting into Zhou Zimu's quilt to wake him up.Although he didn't do this in the end, Specter had other considerations in his mind.

In front of this awkward and stubborn brother, maybe only year after year of hard work and hard work can capture him.But anyway, I'm already dead, so I can't spend too much time, so let's think about it in the long run.

Li Mingyi lifted her lips and smiled, and rubbed against her elder brother again.

Zhou Zimu fell asleep in a daze, feeling as if he was being crushed by a ghost.Especially this ghost, who can't get rid of it no matter what.

What did His Majesty the Demon King say?

I really don't know the blessing when I am in the blessing.