Detective Ghost Empress

44 Tears of Grand Dowager Empress

” Who are you going to crush?” Jia Li asked when she saw Liu Hui Ying furiously smashing something imaginary with her hands, she just went to take care of the assassin what happened in just a few minutes, why was her boss acting up again?

” Who else, it’s the Emperor,” replied Li Gang as he turned his head and looked at Jia Li, seeing that she was all right, he snapped his fingers at her and said, ” You go girl, I thought you will be caught in a mess but somehow you returned safe and sound.”

In the modern world every time Jia Li shared Liu Hui Ying’s spiritual energy to enhance her powers and skills as a poltergeist, she would end up being caught in a mess or another.

She was just that clumsy, there was one time she almost stumbled into a grim reaper, if not for Liu Hui Ying, she would have been dragged to the underworld back then.

Jia Li rolled her eyes before she picked up a pillow from Liu Hui Ying’s bed and threw it at Li Gang but it didn’t hurt the latter at all instead it went through Li Gang’s smoky profile with a wheezing sound and knocked the vase sitting on the small round table down.

” You are one to talk, do you think that you are any better?” snapped Jia Li as she folded her arms and haughtily raised her chin at Li Gang. ” Every time, Hui Ying sends you to investigate a case, you will end up chasing the female ghosts on the streets, shooting corny lines at them. At least I delay my work because of my clumsy footing, you on the other hand run around the city like a h*rny dog.”

” H*rny dog? You are calling me a dog in heat? How dare you!” Li Gang rolled his sleeves as he waved his fists at Jia Li. ” If you want to have a go against me, then just say it... I will show you what I can do!”

Jia Li raised her hands in the air as well as she started moving back and forward like she was a competitor in a mixed martial arts tournament. ” Fine then, do you think I am scared? I am ready you come at me!”

” Arghhh!”

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” Wahhh!!”

Grandma Lan Fen ignored the two childish things and then turned to look at Liu Hui Ying before rising in the air and flying close to Liu Hui Ying such that she was standing beside her. ” Are you sure that this will be fine? I mean I am afraid that if others were to find out about your powers then–”

” I know,” Liu Hui Ying hasn’t forgotten what happened to her sister, she of course knew the dangers that were involved in displaying her skills but currently she had no other choice. ” But if I don’t do this then I will only be putting myself in a much more vulnerable position at least this way I will throw in a favour on the Grand Dowager Empress’s head... given that she still dresses in such pale clothes and eats a vegetarian diet, she is still pinning on the death of her daughter ... if I was to send her daughter to the cycle of reincarnation, that old hag has to accept me, even begrudgingly–”

She was still speaking when something came flying past Grandma Lan Fen and hit her squarely on the chest.

” Oh, my,” Grandma Lan Fen gasped while Jia Li and Li Gang who were scratching and pulling each other’s hair paused before turning to look at Liu Hui Ying who pulled the pillow off her face and snarled, ” You two foolish jerks!”

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” What do you say little Mimi, my daughter was the brightest and gentlest woman, she must have gone to heaven right?” asked Grand Dowager Empress as she took the portrait of her daughter from Little Mimi’s hands and caressed it carefully, making sure that she wouldn’t crease the paper before taking a velvety soft dry cloth from the girl’s hands and started wiping the portrait that was lying on her lap. “I bet she might have already reincarnated into a loving family, she was such a sweet child there is no way the King of Yama wouldn’t have taken pity on her.”

No sooner did Zhai Chenguang walk through the wooden walls, she heard her mother say those words. Her gaze dipped down at the portrait that her mother was cleaning and she bit her lips hard but because she was already dead not a drop of blood oozed out of her lower lip. Reincarnated? She wasn’t even being allowed to walk past the gates of the underworld, how was she supposed to reincarnate? She was still here waiting for some sort of miracle to happen while sucking the Yang energy of her mother.

Grand Dowager Empress didn’t know that the soul of her daughter was standing just a few feet away from her, she was still engrossed in her daily habit of wiping her daughter’s portrait.

She carefully skimmed her fingers at the frozen memory of Zhai Chenguang as she rubbed those familiar eyes that were so much like hers. ” She was such a beauty, if she was alive right now...then maybe I would have seen my beautiful grandchildren playing in my courtyard before closing my eyes once and forever.”

Tears welled up in Grand Dowager Empress’s eyes as she hungrily looked at her daughter’s portrait, caressing it again and again but she was afraid of ruining the carefully drawn portrait that was why she didn’t even dare to touch the paper, her hand always stayed an inch above its surface. If she was to ruin this portrait then from where will she get another one?

The person smiling at her from the Ivory paper was no longer there.

She couldn’t even ask her painter to make another portrait of her daughter nor will she be able to see this beautiful smile ever again if she was to ruin it.

Grand Dowager Empress sniffed as she wiped the tears that were flooding down her cheeks not allowing them to fall on the portrait afraid that they will splatter the ink all over the paper. ” How good it would have been if I was the one who died that day instead of Chenguang? At least that way I didn’t have to see my daughter’s cold and unmoving body lying in the casket.”

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