Detective Ghost Empress

55 Who are you then?

Zhai Tianyu was crowned as an Emperor when he was a young boy, ever since then he has been served in a lot of ways by a lot of people but he was sure that he has never been served in his entire life like he was being served in Liu Hui Ying’s courtyard.

He watched as the woman in the weird dress apparently it was called pyjamas and the bird was called penguin pour him hot tea before bringing it to him while hovering an inch above the floor as she placed the cup in front of him and said, ” Please go easy on her and of course, I am not saying this for her sake it’s for yours, she is crazy when she is angry.”

” Is it hot enough?” asked the elderly Grandma Lan Fen as she lit up the brazier and sighed apologetically, ” Forgive us, Hui Ying’s constitution is a perfect match to our Yin energies and that is why she has never felt cold, we never thought that the other people were having a hard time because of our presence.”

” Oh no it’s all right,” Zhai Tianyu was half expecting the ghosts to try and attack him but apparently they were more or less just like him and the other living ones, except they were a bit pale and transparent. “It’s more than enough.”

He then turned to look at Liu Hui Ying who was sitting on the other end of the room with her head almost leaning out of the window as she stared at him with squinted eyes, the ghostly man called Li Gang had the same expression as his master and did not seem to any more welcoming than Liu Hui Ying. ” So you really are allergic to man?”

” Of course do you think I would have walked around three kilometres back and forth if I wasn’t?” Liu Hui Ying replied waspishly as she looked at her two ghost servants serving that heartless jerk and almost severed their contracts. ” If I wasn’t allergic do you think I would have suffered like that? Or did you think that I was trying to attract your attention or something of the sort, if you did then just so you know I am kicking you out?”

Zhai Tianyu paused and then embarrassingly touched his nose, he did think that but that wasn’t his fault after all the Liu Hui Ying he knew wasn’t allergic to men or anything. “It’s just that when I met you before, you were not allergic to men..so how come all of a sudden...”

He noticed that as soon as he spoke, the three ghosts exchanged a glance with Liu Hui Ying who languidly stretched on the long chair next to the window sill and said casually while looking at her nails, ” That’s because that woman is dead.”

” Wha...What?” Zhai Tianyu choked on his tea as he raised his head and looked at Liu Hui Ying in shock and surprise.

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Liu Hui Ying spared him a glance and then said with a brow hitched up, ” What? Did you really think that a woman who drank poisoned wine would be fine? She drank the wine you sent her most probably she knew that she wouldn’t be able to survive it. So, she chose the most painless death.”

Zhai Tianyu stayed silent for a few minutes before he opened his mouth after a hard swallow and asked, ” Then what about you? Are you a ghost as well? Did you possess this body after finding out that the owner has died?”

” Wha...Hahahaha!” Liu Hui Ying burst out laughing after she finished listening to Zhai Tianyu’s words, she slapped her thigh and wiped the tears that were spilling out of her crinkling eyes before she suddenly paused and stared at him straight in the eyes. ” Do you really think that I would do something as stupid as possessing this body? I am just an unfortunate soul that was dragged here by you and that woman.”

She leaned back on her chair and then threw her arm on the window sill before she scoffed. ” Being Empress might be a real treat for someone like you and your sweetheart but I can’t care less about this position. I am not even from this world, you see? I want to go back... and I will be going back as soon as I find the soul of this woman and then I am stuffing her back in this body and after that, I will be off to where I belong.”

The more she thought about the injustice she has suffered, the more angry Liu Hui Ying got as she smacked her hand on the seat of her long bench-like couch and turned her head to look at Zhai Tianyu, “It’s your fault, who asked you to give that woman a poisoned wine? No matter what she was innocent. Do you even have any idea what is the cost of killing an innocent person?”

She pointed to Li Gang who was standing next to her and said, ” He mistakenly killed someone and ever since then he is being hunted by the grim reaper if I wasn’t kind enough and took him in, his soul would have been disintegrated by now... that is the price of killing an innocent.”

” It was extremely important for me to kill her,” replied Zhai Tianyu as he looked at Liu Hui Ying with an upturned gaze and said, ” If you think that I am cruel then you have no idea how ruthless and evil Liu family is, they have killed hundreds of commoners and the districts under them are nothing but a centre of corruptions and greeds, honest officials being executed and the crooked being rewarded, its a common practice under their rule... having an Empress from the same family as them would be similar to handing them a tag that they can kill anyone, anywhere at any time.”

” Then you don’t have to worry since she is already dead and I will be leaving soon as well,” said Liu Hui Ying with a wave of her hand, she sensed that he was hesitant so she decided to throw in a bait that will secure her survival. ” It will be wise of you not to touch me because if you touch me then you will be cutting off the road to the reincarnation of your late aunt.”

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