Detective Ghost Empress

24 Better than taking someone’s life as a joke.

” Hah! Why do they call this palace? Why not declare it as a district huh? maybe better declare it as a freakin city, this was three kilometres? More like thirty kilometres!” Liu Hui Ying felt her legs almost give out when she climbed the fiftieth step that led to the Grand dowager Empress’s palace, why was it that this palace had such excessive grandeur but her palace looked like a puny shack? Was this about the difference in their positions or was it about her not being favoured by the Emperor?

‘These assholes if they had the slightest bit of guilt then they would have at least given her time to recover, this body was still recovering and thanks to them, she was on the verge of fainting again.’

Liu Hui Ying pulled her skirt even further as she took a trembling step forward and almost stumbled to the ground if not for Nanny Gong and Qui Ai holding her from her waist, she would have smashed her face on the step ahead of her.

” Your majesty, this is why I said–”

” Don’t you dare,” Liu Hui Ying raised a finger as she silenced Nanny Gang with a stern voice, an annoyed expression flashing on her face as she pushed herself off the ground and wheeled to look at Nanny Gang and Qui Ai staring at the two of them fiercely. ” Don’t you dare to say that the Emperor is a gentleman and I should have taken a ride with him, if he was that much of a gentleman then he would have allowed me to take the ride alone, it’s not like his majestic self was lacking a palanquin or two? But no, he let me walk away, he could have stopped me and told me to take the palanquin but did he? No, he didn’t! Instead, he let his wife who is still recovering from the poisonous wine walk this far and for your information, he was the one who sent that jar of wine to me! So don’t call him a gentleman, you are putting all the gentlemen in this world to shame!”

Nanny Gang and Qui Ai immediately shut up seeing that Liu Hui Ying was angry, noticing that the two of them had turned silent Liu Hui Ying finally breathed a sigh of relief and then turned to look at the palace that was still far away and stomped her feet. ” Why? Why is that palace situated at such a high place? Is the Grand dowager Empress looking for booking the first class ticket?” The first-class ticket that Liu Hui Ying talking about was of course to the heavens. Why else would someone live in a palace that was so high up?

Of course, no one understood a word she said given that the term ‘ first-class ticket,’ was something that they have never heard before.

A good thing too because if anyone understood what she was saying then Liu Hui Ying would have been dragged to the execution ground, after all, what she just said could be counted as her cursing the Grand dowager Empress.

Liu Hui Ying looked at the palace that was nearly touching the sky and huffed a tired breath as she picked up the skirt in her hands and said, “Let’s go.”

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Because she knew that even if she was to die on these steps today, she has to shove that brewed tea down the throat of that old hag or else why would she, a woman who was just almost poisoned to death be pushed to do something like this? Who knows if she was to die on these very steps these people might have her corpse brew tea for that Grand Dowager Empress because of their so-called customs.

” My Queen, you are here?” As soon as Liu Hui Ying reached the top of the steps, her gaze fell on the jerk who didn’t seem to have broken even a drop of sweat and looked as refreshed as he did when he came to see her in the morning, of course, he did! That damned jerk had a palanquin!

She glanced at his impeccable appearance and then looked at her sweaty appearance before letting out a snort. If anyone dared to call this jerk a gentleman in future, she was going to fight them to death, what gentleman? He was a black stain on the name of gentlemen!

” No, I am not here,” replied Liu Hui Ying taking the handkerchief from Qui Ai and wiping her face. ” This is my ghost, my body is somewhere down on the steps, wait for a few minutes, it’s trying its best to come up.”

Another stretch of silence settled between the group before nanny Gang clapped her hands and said with a smile that was worse than crying, ” Joking, her majesty is just joking hahaha, ha...”

” Haha, it seems that the Queen has learned how to joke,” said Zhai Tianyu as he chuckled along with Nanny Gang.

Liu Hui Ying twisted her lips from left to right in a disdainful manner before scoffing. ” At least it’s better than taking someone’s life as a joke, goodness the price of life here sure is cheap.”

This time the laughter stopped at once as Nanny Gang shot a fearful look at the Emperor before lowering her head but Liu Hui Ying who was the target of Zhai Tianyu’s gaze hitched up a brow and curled her lips in a mocking smile. ” What? You didn’t like my joke? I thought that you of all people will understand it, your esteemed majesty.” She was an officer, a detective who was used to more danger than this pretty boy can even think of, did he believe she was scared of dying?

Hah, if he was under this delusion then he was going to be very disappointed.

“It seems that the Queen is like a flaming blaze when she is angry,” said Zhai Tianyu breaking the sudden silence as he looked at Liu Hui Ying with a smile that was as serene as the breeze of the spring. ” I didn’t know that the Queen can get this upset.”

Liu Hui Ying smiled back at him but her smile was as harsh as the blizzard of winter as she said, ” There are a lot of things that your esteemed majesty does not know about me, what a pity that you will never get a chance either.”

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