Detective Ghost Empress

216 A storm brewing

Dedicating todays chapter to Mari_Hassegawa_2299.

” You..you…what are you doing?” Even though Liu Fei Fei was a ghost, she was spooked when she saw that Liu Hui Ying was actually trying to get ‘spooky’ with her, she looked at the woman with her eyes widening as she looked at the woman in front of her. Why ….why was she holding her chin and why in the world was she talking to her like she was some sort of hooligan.

Liu Fei Fei was really startled but the three ghosts behind her were not at all surprised, they knew that Liu Hui Ying would do something like this to send Liu Fei Fei away. It was just that they just did not expect her to be this shameless, for the sake of money this woman might even haggle with the devil and then send him packing once she was done with him.

” What do you think?” Liu Hui Ying asked with a smile as she pulled Liu Fei Fei closer to her face and whispered seductively, ” If his majesty can juggle between then why shouldn’t I get to have the fun as well hmm? Why should men have all the fun, don’t you think so?”

Liu Fei Fei: “…..”

A wretched scream echoed in Liu Hui Ying’s courtyard and a ghost was seen rushing out of the small building while clutching her skirt in her hands as if something evil was chasing after her.
” You are the only one who can scare a ghost like that,” Li Gang commented as he watched Liu Fei Fei run out of the room, he was sure that if that woman was human she would have still run past the wall by breaking it with her own body.

” She should have left me alone when I asked her to, what are you blaming me for?” Liu Hui Ying shrugged her shoulders with a blatant attitude of not giving a damn about anyone but as she turned around to walk towards her bed, her eyes turned slowly and a glint flashed through them as she thought about what happened today.

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Soon the matter of Liu Fei Fei being killed was spread throughout the entire imperial palace. The concubines who did not have any backing were startled, they were worried that they will be the ones who will be killed next after all if the daughter of the Liu family was killed then what will happen to them? Even though they said that it was suicide but no one was a fool. Liu Fei Fei was jumping around the palace just a few days ago, she did not look like she was depressed why would she kill herself?

On the other hand, the Concubines who were bullied by her were overjoyed if not for being scared about getting caught by someone from the Liu family, they would have thrown a victory banquet for themselves.

” What do you think about this, your highness?” Xiaolin asked Ji Yu while carrying a flint in her hand as she lit up the lamp inside the study of her mistress. As soon as she lit the lamp, a golden hue covered the inside of the room and immediately the dark room lightened up with the light that the lamp was emitting. ” Concubine Liu died, I fear that the Liu family will not let this matter rest.”

Even though Xiaolin heard that the maids of the palace were discussing the death of Liu Fei Fei as nothing but suicide but she has been working in the backyard of the Ji family for a very long time, and she had a very good idea that there was no way if Liu Fei Fei really committed suicide then the Liu family would have accepted it.

They would have made use of the death to target her miss for sure, then how come they did not come to look for trouble for them?

Ji Yu was reading a book when she heard Xiaolin’s words and paused, she raised her head and then looked at her maid who was blowing air on the flint that was still burning before speaking, ” I believe that the Liu family would not let this go either but there is little to nothing that we can do about this.”

Xiaolin dropped the flint in the small box where she placed the remaining flints and then said with a worried glance at her miss, ” Your Highness, you should write to your father and tell him about everything that is going on in the palace, for the Liu family to call the death of Concubine Liu as suicide and stay silent. I believe that they might be thinking of doing something terrible.”

Ji Yu turned silent when she heard Xiaolin say this, she knew that she should be telling everything to her father but after she found out the truth about her brother’s death and the fact that the Ji family actually made the Liu family suffer the brunt of that incident alone, she did not wish to have any conversation with her father at all.

” I will think about it,” Ji Yu replied as she went back to reading the book which she was holding in her hands, her mind in a daze as she thought about the incident that took place today. Most probably her family had a hand behind this incident and the person who was supposed to take the burnt of Liu Fei Fei’s death was Liu Hui Ying this must have been the reason why the Liu family did not blame her, they were afraid to get this matter investigated and get Liu Hui Ying involved in this matter.

‘ Should I do it? Should I ask his majesty to investigate this matter, if I do then the Empress will have to give up on her throne——-‘ Ji Yu immediately closed the book that was in her hands with a loud bang causing Xiaolin to look at her in surprise and fear. ” Your highness, what happened?”

” Nothing,” Ji Yu replied while biting her bottom lip, a dark expression on her face. ” I just lost myself for a moment and wanted to wake myself up.”

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