Detective Ghost Empress

Chapter 4: Plans to save her life

” Your majesty!” Qui Ai saw Liu Hui Ying peering out of her room and immediately shrieked in delight before running towards her as if she was preparing to launch herself at Liu Hui Ying causing the latter to take several steps back. Right now, she saw that the maid was being held by that man keeping guard outside, she immediately retreated and looked around before her gaze fell on a ceramic water bowl with a washcloth, though there was no water in the bowl, the cloth looked wet enough.

Picking it up, she threw it at the maid, the second she tried to throw herself at Liu Hui Ying.

” Sheesh, what are you doing?” Jia Li reprimanded her with a harsh tone. ” Do you think she is your servant or something like us? How can you treat her so harshly?”

” Well, in a way she is my servant,” said Liu Hui Ying with an awkward expression.

” Liu Hui Ying!”

” All right, all right,” she snapped before turning to look at the little maid that was staring at her in shock and cleared her throat before stretching her neck in a way to look impressive as she said, ” Its because you were touched by a man outside, why don’t you wipe that hand, and come at me after you are done wiping?”

The maid named Qui Ai stared at her before she burst out in tears, nonetheless even after bursting out in tears she still wiped her arm that was held by General Yu.

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” Oh..why is she crying?” Liu Hui Ying was an orphan after her parents died while dealing with a particularly evil spirit and ever since then she was raised by her aunt. Because she could see spirits, she was often ostracised by her classmates and hardly any friends other than the ghosts she talked with every day, seeing a woman cry in front of her, all of a sudden, startled Liu Hui Ying so much that she almost jumped back. ” There is no need to cry is it?”

” Girls are delicate things you see?” with the generous amount of dating experience, Li Gang immediately gave his two-piece as he looked at Qui Ai. ” She announced outside that she was willing to die with the owner of this body, clearly she likes the owner a lot but then you threw a wet cloth at her, she might have been hurt by that action, all right?”

” I don’t want to hear it from you, have you forgotten that six months ago you were awarded as ‘ Mister Bachelor’ on the fortune occasion of you being single for more than four hundred years?” hissed Liu Hui Ying. ” Even ghosts younger than you are getting a chance at dating and what about you?”

Li Gang immediately shut up but Jia Li who was standing next to him patted Liu Hui Ying on her shoulder and said, “No, I think, he is onto something... he might be right.”

” You might have really hurt, that little girl with your attitude, my dear,” said Grandma Lan Fen with a slight nod at the maid.

Seeing that they were still going on and on about how she hurt the maid, Liu Hui Ying sighed and looked at the maid as she said, ” Hey listen, I think–”

” How hurt you must have been, your majesty,” finally done wiping her arms, Qui Ai threw herself at Liu Hui Ying and cried out. ” You love the Emperor so much that you aren’t even willing to touch another man indirectly and yet the Emperor locked you up without thinking about it even once, he is such a ...such a ...such a ...”

” A jerk?” said Liu Hui Ying helpfully, Qui Ai in her arms stiffened before nodding against her.

” And what did that jerk do?” asked Liu Hui Ying promptly, given that Qui Ai was so agitated by the Emperor, then she will surely tell her everything that she wanted to know.

” The jer– The Emperor ordered you to be locked in your courtyard after Concubine Shen complained that her abdomen was hurting and later on she lost her child and indirectly blamed you, your majesty saying that you might have mixed something in her drink at the congratulatory banquet where the concubines were asked to pay their respects to you and that too right before your wedding night, your majesty.” Qui Ai said everything in one breath before taking a pause and said, ” But you already know this, your majesty, why are you asking me this again?”

” Ah, this is because...”

“WHAT?!!!” After listening to what Liu Hui Ying said Qui Ai screamed out loud causing Liu Hui Ying to shush her down. ” Don’t shout, do you want everyone to know that I lost my memory wouldn’t they take advantage of the situation.”

Immediately, Qui Ai shut up and looked at Liu Hui Ying before asking in a soft voice. ” Did you really forget everything, your majesty?”

” Would I lie to you if I didn’t,” said Liu Hui Ying as she turned around and sat down on the bed before pointing at the wine in the cabinet. “What is the scene with the wine?”

Qui Ai looked at the jar of the poisoned wine and answered, ” The Emperor bestowed it on you, saying that he will be merciful and give you three days to end your life.”

” And if I don’t?”

” He will end it for you.”

” Fucking bastard,” cursed Liu Hui Ying with a sneer. This was why she will never trust men, they just have their eyes on so many women and wouldn’t care about hurting anyone. She rolled her tongue in her mouth before she leaned forward with her elbows on her knees and asked, ” Qui Ai, do you have a dress similar to what the general outside is wearing?”

Qui Ai stopped crying and nodded. ” I do, but what do you want to do with the dress, your majesty?”

” I have my plans regarding that dress, just get me one and I will show you what I can do,” said Liu Hui Ying with a smile before turning to look at the three ghosts standing behind her and added, ” And if you don’t mind, can you bring it as quickly as you can?”