Detective Ghost Empress

33 Contempt.

” I see, I will get the craftsman to ...” Grand Dowager Empress began speaking, she was expecting Liu Hui Ying to ask for a similar hairpin as Ji Yu which was why her reply was already set but when Liu Hui Ying’s words registered in her head, she frowned and then raised her head to look at Liu Hui Ying with a frowning expression as she asked, ” What did you say ...what do you want?”

Liu Hui Ying only smiled in the face of the Grand Dowager Empress’s frown as she repeated her words, ” I want the beads of cursed blood wood, your majesty...you know the one that you received as a gift from someone.”

Her words shocked everyone in the hall, everyone knew that the beads of bloodwood were a cursed item that was snuck inside the gifts that Grand Dowager Empress received on her fiftieth birthday. At first, she didn’t know what it was and casually wore it since she was a religious woman, to begin with but then after she wore it, weird nightmares started to bug her. She couldn’t sleep for a week and her appearance turned haggard, at first she couldn’t understand what was happening, but later on when little Mimi pointed it out, she realised that her nightmares started the day when she started wearing the beads.

As an experiment, she closed the beads in a cabinet where she prayed and that night she was indeed not bugged by any nightmare! The Grand Dowager Empress was spooked and she immediately threw the beads away but after a week she realised that the beads were still in her room, it was as if she never threw them away, afraid that something was up, she immediately called a priest who locked the beads away and told her that she can never throw the beads away unless someone voluntarily takes them.

By the time she found out about it, the rumours about the beads had already spread all over the place and she couldn’t give them to anyone. In the end, they stayed with her locked and forgotten in the cabinet where the priest locked them but now Liu Hui Ying was saying that she wanted them. For what?

” You want the beads of bloodwood?” Grand Dowager Empress was simply stunned, she was expecting Liu Hui Ying to ask for a hairpin or two but she didn’t expect her to ask for that cursed thing. What was going on in her head? Did she know that she cannot throw that thing away once she gets her hands on it?

” Of course, if I didn’t want it then I wouldn’t have asked for it, your majesty,” said Liu Hui Ying as she smiled brightly at the Grand Dowager Empress. ” Do you agree, I mean there is no need for you to not agree...after all, if I can’t treat you then you can punish me as you wish your majesty and if I treat you then you don’t need to have to lose anything, this entire thing is a win-win situation for you.”

It was indeed a win-win situation, thought Zhai Tianyu as he looked at Liu Hui Ying, he could not understand what was going on in her head, but he couldn’t let her have the beads of bloodwood, so easily. He has seen his grandmother’s condition back then and he knew that it was a horribly dangerous thing, to leave such a thing in the hands of someone from the Liu family, he didn’t like the thought of it.

He narrowed his eyes and looked at Liu Hui Ying with suspicion as he asked, ” Why do you want it, what do you have in mind?”

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Liu Hui Ying turned her head and the smile on her face dropped at an alarming rate while facing the Grand Dowager Empress she at least had a smile on her face but when looking at Zhai Tianyu, her eyes glinted contemptuously as she looked at him. ” Why do you think that I will do any harm to others your esteemed majesty? As far as I know, the beads couldn’t be given to someone else without their consent and everyone knows about the beads of the bloodwood, who will take it from me?”

Was it his imagination or the way the Queen was talking to him with a tone that was even more contemptuous than how he talked about her?

Even the Grand Dowager Empress found it bewildering, as far as she knew Liu Hui Ying has tried her best to marry her grandson but now that she was married to him, why did it look like she didn’t like him as much as they thought that she did?

Zhai Tianyu’s lips twitched as he looked at Liu Hui Ying and smiled softly, seeing that the hard approach wasn’t working he wasn’t shy of giving the soft approach a try. “It’s nothing like that, my queen. I am just worried about my wife, can’t I be worried about you?”

When he spoke, his voice was full of love and affection ...Liu Hui Ying who despised everything that had to do with men and their affection, shivered as goosebumps broke all over her skin as she leaned back on her chair as if she was trying to get away from the invisible, fake love that was flying in the air. ” There is no need for you to worry about me, in fact...” she paused when she felt someone pinch the back of her neck, stunned she turned around and looked at Nanny Gong who was looking at her with a pleading look on her face.

” Please... your majesty have mercy on us,” Nanny Gong said in a pitiful voice causing Liu Hui Ying to clear her throat uncomfortably as she turned around and decided to ignore the emperor altogether, she knew her habits too well, if she was to look at him much less hear what he has to say, she would not be able to stop herself from splitting his butt!