Detective Ghost Empress

118 who do you think did this?

” What is the meaning of this?” Zhai Tianyu asked as he looked at the mirror that was painted red, he could, of course, read the words written on it but the meaning was simply unclear to him and more importantly, the red, dripping words looked rather scary, was it a prank or something else?

“I just don’t understand why someone would do something like this?” Ji Yu commented from the side while she was helping Xiao Mimi cover the grand dowager Empress, she was dressed in a night robe with a pale violet flower embroidered at the border of the robe looking gentle as ever but there was a frown playing on her face as her eyebrows were furrowed while she looked at the mirror with a distressed look on her face. ” This could have killed aunt, she might be a woman of strong calibre and she has been getting better these days but it does not change the fact that she is an elderly woman for someone to do something so scary in the middle of the night, I am not surprised by the fact that aunt fainted like this.”

Zhai Heng was frowning as well, he too didn’t understand why someone would sneak into the courtyard of the queen only to leave this cryptic message behind instead of properly assassinating the grand dowager Empress, truly he was relieved that his grandmother was safe and sound but at the same time he could not understand why would someone do anything like this? Like they snuck so deep into the security of the grand dowager Empress’s palace only to leave this message? For what and why?

They all heard the sound of the door opening behind them as someone slid it to the side and entered, the three of them turned to look at Yu Lingyun who was walking inside the sleeping chambers of the grand dowager Empress with a solemn frown on his forehead before he saluted Zhai Tianyu with a deep ninety-degree bow.

” You may rise, ” Zhai Tianyu has always found this uncomfortable, if not for his mother’s insistence that he became the king then he would have been standing in the position of his brother and looking up at him but because of the Dowager Empress’s constant insistence, he was made the king and ever since then he was watching his brother and his best friend bow down to him like this.

” Did you find anything?” Zhai Tianyu further asked when he saw that Yu Lingyun has straightened up.

” I didn’t,” Yu Lingyun replied with a frown as he continued to look around the room, only after looking around the entire room did he turn his attention to look at Zhai Tianyu and shook his head. ” I have assigned the best shadow guards for the grand dowager Empress, it’s impossible for someone to sneak in without them finding out, according to them– they have been guarding the grand dowager empress with all their hearts, they have not seen anyone entering the room nor have they seen anyone leave, if they heard the smallest sound they would have been alerted but they only heard the sound of the grand dowager Empress’s scream and nothing else.”

The shadow Guards that were assigned to the grand dowager empress and Ji Yu were no novices, they have been to war and back and they knew what and how they needed to do... they were fully aware of their responsibilities and if anyone was to say that they didn’t then the shadow guards were such thick skulled soldiers that they would hand over their heads at once.

Zhai Tianyu knew that the shadow guards were not the ones who made the mistake of not paying proper attention either the one who snuck inside the palace was too good of an assassin or they were not human at all– instantly he felt something click in his head and his hold on the mirror tightened, he knew that the queen was not a bad person but she was not a good person either.

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She was the type of woman who will retaliate at the smallest grievance as she was petty and unforgiving, what if she did something and caused his grandmother to faint like this?

There was only one way to find out about this.

He turned to look at Zhai Heng and Yu Lingyun before he raised the mirror in his hand and then told them, ” I will go and see what I can do, I am sure that I will be able to get a small piece of evidence through this...you two look here and I will go and see somewhere else.”

The way he spoke was confident and from the taut expression on his face, one could see that he already had a very good idea about who was the one behind this, Zhai Heng and Yu Lingyun nodded after exchanging a look with each other.

” Very well, we will wait for you in the study room after we are done investigating, will that be okay?” Zhai Heng asked and received a nod from his brother who was heading towards the door of the sleeping chambers with the polished plate mirror in his hands.

Ji Yu watched her husband leave and then frowned as she turned her head to look at Zhai Heng and asked, ” Where is his majesty going? Surely, he is not going to look for the culprit himself right?”

By now both Zhai Heng and Yu Lingyun seemed to have understood why and where Zhai Tianyu was going, after all in this imperial palace only one woman was capable of assaulting the grand dowager empress by sending an invisible assassin and that was the Queen. Surely, Zhai Tianyu was rushing off to see her and ask what she was trying to do by scaring the grand dowager empress.

” You don’t need to worry, Concubine Ji,” replied Zhai Heng with a polite smile on his face, as the two of them have been together ever since they were children, Zhai Heng has always treated Ji Yu quite nicely. ” I am sure his majesty has something in his mind or else he wouldn’t have rushed out in a hurry.”

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