Detective Ghost Empress

195 Your loss is bigger than mine

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” And that wasn’t all,” Wei De gritted out through his teeth as he clutched his half-torn legs and pushed himself off the floor and looked at Zhai Tianyu. ” He even got our father to be executed, it should have been enough...should it not? But no, your father the late Emperor punished our entire family. He sent an executioner to me and made me a eunuch as for my mother, her eyes were gouged out and then she was sent to one of his favourite officials where she committed suicide after getting tortured!”

” Your father was the one who came up with the plan, he was the one who did not listen to a thing that my father told him and yet he stood tall and haughty in that imperial throne of his while my family was destroyed.” Wei De spat on Zhai Tianyu’s shoes but was unable to do so when Zhai Heng who was looking stony face pulled Zhai Tianyu back. ” So, isn’t it only right that his family got destroyed as well? He wanted to see my family live in poverty and see the end of my life without having a child much less a life.”

Wei De’s lips curled in a triumphant smirk as he looked at Zhai Tianyu. ” But look at this not only did I marry his sister but I also became a scholar just by hiding the fact that I was able to get out of that accident alive. The Emperors of all ages think that they are smart, that they know everything when the truth is that they are fools, who do not know what is going around their surroundings.”

” If I speak the truth, I will have to say that I truly adore the fact that I was able to make an idiot out of you, your majesty,” Wei De laughed mockingly as he looked at Zhai Tianyu. ” I killed your aunt right under your nose and yet you could not even catch me, even now if not for this man here, you wouldn’t have found out that I was the killer of your dear aunt. What a fool you are your majesty!”

” How dare you...” Zhai Heng moved to hit Wei De when he heard the man call his brother a fool but he was stopped by Zhai Tianyu who looked at the man who was on the floor. “I do admit that I am a fool.”

” Your majesty!” Zhai Heng and Yu Lingyun simultaneously turned to look at Zhai Tianyu who shook his head and calmly looked at Wei De who was looking at him in surprise like he could not believe that Zhai Tianyu was willing to admit that he was in the wrong.

” I was a fool who thought that he knew everything but now that I am looking at the world through another outlook, I can see that I was indeed foolish,” Zhai Tianyu only knew that his father was one of the most powerful rulers of this world but other than he did not know anything about his father.

His grandmother would tell him the brave stories of his father and would completely ignore the fact that her son too had some flaws like every other emperor. As a ruler, he should have made note of this fact given that for every mother, her son was the best no matter what kind of man he truly was in the reality.

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” But that does not change the fact that you have killed a member of the imperial family, my father no matter what he did ...he was your criminal, not my aunt,” Zhai Tianyu told Wei De firmly with a gaze that was both disappointed and angry. ” She truly loved you, even though you were a eunuch and did all sorts of things to trick her, do you think that you were so smart that she did not catch anything amiss? She was the princess of this Imperial country, she was wiser than most women. In this world what did she not see?”

” The reason she chose not to ask you anything, not to doubt you even worse was simple. She cared about you, she loved you enough to ignore everything else and that was the only reason and nothing else, and you made a joke out of her love.”

Zhai Tianyu walked over to where Wei De was step by step. ” If you had come to me and told me what my father did, I promise you that I would have given you a decent compensation maybe I would have made an exception of letting you become the first scholar who was a eunuch. But instead, you made a foolish trap, something that is both stupid and pitiful, Lord Wei.”

Wei De looked at Zhai Tianyu who was looking at him with a sympathetic gaze and growled. ” Don’t look at me like that, I know that all of you are just the same your father was the same and so are you. You act like you truly care about me but the truth is that you don’t! No one cares about people like us.”

” Even if I don’t care about you, do you think you were in the right to do something like this?” Zhai Tianyu asked lightly as he looked at Wei De, he was no longer as angry as he was before, in fact in his eyes this man who was acting like a spoiled brat was simply a pitiful man who did not know what to do when he lost everything. ” By doing this you only lost everything that you had, if possible even more.”

” What are you talking about,” Wei De looked at Zhai Tianyu with a glare even though his leg was throbbing with pain and he was on the verge of losing consciousness, he wished to make this man suffer with him. ” I did not lose anything at all, it’s you who lost–”

” You lost the one woman who loved you despite all your flaws, lord Wei,” Zhai Tianyu interrupted him with one simple sentence. ” If we see it like this, your loss is bigger than mine.”