Detective Ghost Empress

225 Dissect you

Both Liu Hui Ying and Zhai Tianyu turned to look at the source of the voice, when Liu Hui Ying saw the person who appeared out of thin air, she heaved a sigh of relief but Zhai Tianyu on the other hand stiffened as he looked at Ji Yu who was walking in his direction with her maid who was carrying a lantern in her hands.

Ji Yu’s eyebrows were furrowed in a small frown and she was looking at him with confusion in her eyes.

” I am——” Zhai Tianyu wanted to tell Ji Yu that he was working on something and was busy but then he caught the sly glint in the eyes of the Queen and his muscles went taut even more, he has seen this look in the eye of the Queen before as well, the last time when she glanced at him in such a way, she made quite a trouble for him and now that she had the same look in her eyes Zhai Tianyu was a bit scared as a feeling foreboding raised in his body.

He wanted to stop Liu Hui Ying from speaking but the woman was a step ahead of him, she smiled at Ji Yu and said, ” His majesty and I were just going on a walk but now that you are here, I will take my leave since I do not want to become a third wheel between the two of you.”

And then before he could even stop her, Liu Hui Ying skipped past him and continued to walk at a hurried pace as if she was worried that he will stop her from leaving.

Zhai Tianyu watched Liu Hui Ying leave with a complicated look in his eyes before he turned to look at Ji Yu and asked, “What’s the matter?” He did not notice that his voice that has been gentle like a calm spring breeze when he was talking to Liu Hui Ying has turned cold and impatient.

However, Ji Yu noticed the changes in Zhai Tianyu. Never before did he talk to her in such a manner but now —— he was treating her in the same manner as those concubines he detested so much. Ji Yu was unhappy with his attitude but she did not dare to show it on her face and simply curled her lips into a smile even though her hands inside her sleeves were curled into fists and her sharp nails were digging into her skin.

” I am out on a walk, I went to pay attention to consort Liu and was returning to my courtyard when I saw that the night was truly serene with the moon shining up above,” she replied swiftly as she looked at Zhai Tianyu, her smile dimmed a little when she noticed that he did not take the ever so subtle invitation that she extended in front of him.

Seeing this, Ji Yu’s heart burned even more but she continued to smile as she said, ” Your majesty if you are not in a hurry …can you please come with me on a walk? It has been so many months since the last time you and I went on a walk, what do you say, your majesty?”

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Zhai Tianyu was half distracted when Ji Yu was speaking but he still managed to hear what she was trying to say and then replied in a hurried manner, ” Maybe some other day, Royal consort Ji … I have something to do, right now.” After he was done speaking, he continued to walk in the direction where Liu Hui Ying went and left Ji Yu alone.

Once Zhai Tianyu left Ji Yu who was smiling like a gentle princess immediately curled her lips into a mocking smile, she turned to look at the vanishing back of Zhai Tianyu and then parted her lips before speaking, ” You know Xiaolin, the wise men were right … men truly our distrustful.”

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” Why did you leave your majesty with that witch?” Liu Fei Fei who was walking side by side with Liu Hui Ying asked immediately as soon as they stepped inside the imperial funeral hall where the members of the imperial family were laid to rest before getting buried in their tomb. ” She is someone who likes to pretend that she is above all when the truth is that she is just like every other scheming woman in this palace, what if she hoodwinks his majesty?”

” If he gets hoodwinked by a woman that easily then I’m not sure why you are even worried?” Liu Hui Ying asked as she stepped inside the big hall that had a coffin in the centre which was parched up in the air with the help of a table and multiple flowers wreath around it. A basket of fruit was sitting on the corner of the coffin along with an incense burner that had multiple incense sticks that were releasing smoky rings as they burned bit by bit.

” His majesty is not a child and if he loses sight of himself and chose someone else then I don’t think that you should be shedding tears for him, if anything just let him go,” Liu Hui Ying continued speaking as she walked over to the coffin and then peered at Liu Fei Fei’s body that was lying in the uncomfortable coffin.

She has been dressed in vibrant red clothes with gold jewellery, and even her face was powdered in such a manner that she looked like a sleeping doll instead of a dead woman, but Liu Hui Ying could still see the signs of drowning as she raised her hand then turned to look at Jia Li who nodded and closed her eyes.

Jia Li summoned her Yin energy and then morphed the inside of the funeral hall into that of her forensic lab causing Liu Fei Fei to yelp in surprise as she looked around the entire space that looked completely out of everything that she has seen before, she turned to look at the entire space before turning to look at Liu Hui Ying.

” What’s going on?”

” What else?” Jia LI answered as she picked up a scalpel from the drawer of her table and then looked at Liu Fei Fei, ” We are going to dissect you to see what caused your death.”