Detective Ghost Empress

” I haven’t, can’t you see that there are multiple mosquitoes in a place like this?” Zhai Tianyu waved his hand to make a show of waving the mosquitoes away from his face acting as if he just did not think of something rather upsetting just now. ” I can’t understand how you are standing here.”

Liu Hui Ying raised her brows and then looked around as she took a glance at the surroundings that was devoid of any mosquito and then turned to look at Zhai Tianyu with a blank expression on her face, ” It seems that you are not only attractive to women here but also to mosquitoes, you are quite an enchanting personality, your majesty.”

Her tone was mocking but Zhai Tianyu was not in the mood of getting into a squabble with her, so instead of retorting he simply said, ” You should go back, my queen. Scholar Wei will be back by tomorrow night and I am going to send an invitation to him and invite him to the palace, you should take a good night’s sleep because you won’t be able to get any sleep tomorrow.”

” Woah...”

Liu Hui Ying hardly opened her mouth to say something when she heard Jia Li gasp, she turned to look at the latter who was looking anywhere but at her. She did not understand why Jia Li gasped like this, seeing that the latter did not have any intention of saying anything to her, she turned to look at Zhai Tianyu and replied, ” I understand I will go and take a nap, your majesty.”

She needed to go back and think over the reason why she felt the pain in her chest just now, which was why she did not waste her time with Zhai Tianyu anymore. Liu Hui Ying turned around and walked past Zhai Tianyu, her long robe fluttering past.

The wind on the cliff was rather violent but sometimes the wind would slow down and change itself into a gentle breeze just like it did now, when Liu Hui Ying walked past Zhai Tianyu, the latter smelled a sweet smell of roses and something sweet wafting over to him and for a second he felt like he was in a daze.

Zhai Tianyu stayed where he was with a conflicted look on his face, he did not understand why he was in a daze just because of the scent that came from the Queen but as he stood where he was Jia Li who was floating past him tittered, she looked at him with a sly expression on her face and then winked at him. ” You have fallen, soldier!”

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” What?” He wanted to ask what she meant by this but before he could say anything Jia Li turned around and fluttered past him not paying any attention to him. And as soon as she left Li Gang who was behind her, floated past Zhai Tianyu and bumped into his shoulder causing Zhai Tianyu to shiver as the unpleasant feeling of being doused with cold water overwhelmed him.

He turned to look at Li Gang who was walking past him with a disdainful smile on his face. ” You better stay away from my boss, if you don’t then I will..” he raised his hand and showed it to Zhai Tianyu warning him to not even think about getting close to Liu Hui Ying.

His actions only caused Zhai Tianyu to blink his eyes and get even more confused, he looked at the ghost who was threatening him to stay away from Liu Hui Ying and scrunched his brows up. He was already staying away from the Queen, wasn’t he? Was there any need for this ghost to threaten him like this? It wasn’t as if he was going to cling to the queen, was he?

But before he could even think of something more, Grandma Lan Fen came walking behind Li Gang and patted him on the shoulder causing him to feel uncomfortable all over again.

She shot him a sympathetic look and sighed. “It’s all right even if you are like this, you will find a way.”

” Find a way for what?” He asked but Grandam Lan Fen did not reply to his question and simply flew past him. He watched the ghosts leave and with an expression that was full of frustration, he shouted, ” Find a way for what ?”

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Liu Hui Ying did not care about the Emperor so even when she heard his scream, she did not turn around and looked for him. Instead, she went on her way and returned to her courtyard where she changed her clothes and then went to bed, she was rather relaxed upon finding out that the scholar Wei will be back in the imperial city tomorrow.

As soon as she solves this case she will be able to look for her a way to go back home without any worry. But somewhere between her feeling of relaxation, she was a bit confused as she rubbed her chest while lying on the bed.

She knew that the soul of the woman whose body she was occupying was no longer inside her body because she was carrying her sister’s soul with her, a body as weak as this wouldn’t be able to store three souls at once. And no soul will be able to take over a body that still had a soul within it, at least a celestial master like her wouldn’t be able to make a mistake like not realising that there was another soul attached to her own.

Drumming her fingers on her flat abdomen, Liu Hui Ying thought over what happened tonight and could only come to one conclusion and that was that the link to her condition was tied to the blue orb of flames. Because of the pain, she could not sense it perfectly back then but when she was near the cliff, she felt the presence of another soul lurking in the dark and this body seemed to have resonated with the pain of that soul.