Detective Ghost Empress

Chapter 8: We are not flirting

” Your majesty,” the second prince, Zhai Heng came bursting inside the study of the Emperor. ” A maid just came in, she is saying that she is here to prove the innocence of the Empress.”

With his long hair tied up with a crown sitting on top of his head, Zhai Tianyu flipped through the book and lightly said, ” Just ignore that maid of the Empress, she has been coming here ever since the last hour. Yet she has brought nothing at all ...she just keeps repeating that the Empress is innocent as if someone from the Liu family can be innocent.”

” But that’s the thing,” said Zhai Heng approaching Zhai Tian Yu’s table. ” The maid doesn’t belong to the Empress, she belongs to Concubine Shen.”

Zhai Tian Yu snapped his book close and looked at his brother, the two of them exchanging a glance.

Xiao Mi shuddered when the door of the Emperor’s palace opened, she wanted to run till the last second but — her gaze flickered to the black robe man and she almost passed out. The thing has dropped its mask and now she could see its skeletal face, it was as if someone has brought back a rotten corpse to life again, compared to that scary thing, she would rather face the Emperor.

” I greet the ruler of the heavens and earth,” Xiao Mi bowed in front of Zhai Tian Yu and placed the letters and evidence that she has collected against Concubine Shen and said, ” These are all the evidence that Concubine Shen’s child wasn’t the Emperor...that child.. it belonged to her lover.... After coming to the palace, she was abandoned by you, your majesty and she found solace in her lover... but unfortunately, she got pregnant and couldn’t hide it on time, so she used this chance to frame the Empress and kill that child altogether.”

Once those words were said a deadly silence spread all over the courtyard, a man being cheated on was never a good thing. Whether it was the past or the future.

.....

“Uh huh, so that black hair is actually dark green huh?” commented Li Gang with an arch of his brow. ” Cheated on and even named that child after himself, this might hurt.”

Jia Li snorted. ” Well he deserves that, didn’t you hear that he abandoned that Concubine? Does a woman have no need? Only men do? That’s so sexist.”

” Why are you telling me that?” said Li Gang staring at her in stunned surprise. ” I am not the one who is whoring here and there, why are you snapping at me huh?”

” With that ugly face of yours, you can hardly ever get close to a female ghost much less whore around,” scoffed Jia Li, her voice disdainful.

” What do you mean by that?”

” I mean exactly what I said right now.”

” You bitch!”

” You bastard.”

” All right you two, that’s enough,” separating the two of them Grandma Lan Fen said, ” Just look at what’s happening, there is no need for you two to get all raging.”

The two of them glared at each other but then for the sake of Grandma Lan Fen, the two of them separated and turned to look at the Emperor whose face had turned purple.

He motioned the eunuch behind and the latter picked the letters up and handed it to the Emperor. He took one of the letters and tore it open to read what he read must have been pretty smutty because his face turned red, then blue and finally he started looking like a badly mixed black current ice cream.

” That’s what you get for keeping so many wives,” said Jia Li channelling her inner Liu Hui Ying with a disgusted expression. ” I can’t believe that such a good looking man is such a slag of a man.”

” I just hope that he allows Liu Hui Ying to get a divorce,” said Grandma Lan Fen with a worried expression. ” Not for her sake but his... Hui Ying is a stubborn woman and she really hates womanisers, she will rather chuck herself off a cliff than consummate her marriage with that man.”

” More like chuck him off,” amended Li Gang as he folded his arms and stared at the Emperor. ” I don’t think that there will be a divorce though, didn’t you see that instead of sending her away, he ordered her to die...the relationships in this era were messy, I don’t think that it’s going to be that easy.”

Jia Li only sneered. ” Then I will pray for his and his little brother down there.”

” Where are you looking?” Seeing that she was staring at another man’s nether regions, Li Gang immediately whipped to stand in front of her.

” What is it to you? They are my eyes, I will look wherever I want to,” said Jia Li with a huff.

” No, you don’t ..”

” Why not?”

Li Gang moved his mouth but when he couldn’t say anything he just crossed his arms and said, ” You just can’t all right?”

” You ...”

Grandma Lan Fen sighed and interrupted their bickering, ” Is this the time or place for you two to flirt?”

” We are not flirting!”