Detective Ghost Empress

331 I will come to hate you—He was indeed the puppet Emperor but who was controlling the strings, it was yet to be seen.

Zhai Tianyu closed his eyes as he turned to look at Ji Yu, whose heart skipped a beat when she saw the cold gaze with which Zhai Tianyu was looking at her.

” You said I was unfair right? Then let me tell you something dear consort, if I agreed with those petitions then I would have to ask the investigators to go way back, and by way back I mean years.” He narrowed his eyes and looked at Ji Yu’s small face which was slowly getting paler by the second. ” Do you wish me to do that? Would you like me to see and find out what your family did and what the Ji family did? Is that your wish? If so then tell me now, I will sign the petition now with my seal and start the investigation here and now!”

Ji Yu sucked in a breath when she heard Zhai Tianyu’s words, she did not know what her father did years ago but she was certain that the reason behind Ji Meng’s actions of killing the two consorts and trying to frame the queen had something to do with the plans that her father made for the Liu family’s downfall.

” That’s not what I meant, I mean..to say that you just need to investigate Brother Xianglan’s death.” Ji Yu whispered losing her momentum from before as she lowered her head.

Her whisper was barely audible even when she knew that she and Zhai Tianyu were the only ones who were in the garden and there was no need for her to whisper like this but she still lowered her voice.

Zhai Tianyu almost laughed when he heard Ji Yu’s words, was she for real? Was this Ji Yu now or was she like this from the beginning but he like a fool did not see it since she was the one who was his friend and cousin and the one person who stayed beside him through everything that he had to suffer.

” Say those words again consort, I dare you.” He told her and when Ji Yu did not say anything, he chuckled and then shook his head as he took several steps back and kept nodding with his lips pursed, it was a long time before he opened his mouth again and say, ” You want justice but you do not want fair justice, consort. You want justice that will suit you, your family and everyone else you care about.”

” Justice in the true sense is cruel, it’s ruthless and sometimes you even have to lose your loved ones when it’s handed out without questioning anything, there is no ‘unfairness’ in justice that will bring you happiness, if you want fairness then you need to be prepared for the consequences, are you prepared to face those consequences?” He asked Ji Yu who stayed silent.

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As the cloud thundered one more time, droplets from them started to fall down, the size of pearls as they dripped on the two people who despite being so close were so far away from each other, to the point where they felt like they were trapped in their own hell where they could not breathe.

One was lost because she lost the man whom she loved and the other was lost because he lost a friend whom he believed to be his dearest person.

” Are you prepared, consort?” Zhai Tianyu asked again and this time sounding even more pressing as he questioned Ji Yu, who closed her eyes and answered with a heavy heart, ” No, your majesty.”

She might not be welcomed by her family but they were her own, she could not even dream of a world where they did not exist.

Especially her father, he might be heartless and cruel but he was the same man who once came to her courtyard bringing a doll with him as he played horse with her.

She could never see her father die in front of her, the same man who was with her when she was alone when she was younger.

” This is what you call unfairness, consort,” Zhai Tianyu did not show his disappointment on his face, instead he stared at Ji Yu like he was staring at a stranger, his voice calm and his face a mask of calmness as he looked at Ji Yu. ” What I did is what we call fairness, if there was justice then I assure you, you would have called me something else instead of unfair because the Queen would not be the only one who suffered losses if I was to investigate everything.”

He paused and then added, ” Maybe if I was to really start looking into the past, then consort, I believe that there is a chance that there will come a day when I wouldn’t be able to help myself and hate you.”

With that, he turned on his heels and walked away his heart heavier than the time when his grandmother told him that his father was killed by his mother.

Now, he could not help but question whether even the things that he was told about the death of his father were true or not.

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Ji Yu watched him leave and her feet stumbled, she would have fallen to her bottom if not for the fact that Xiao Lin came running and caught her in her arms.

” Mistress, please get a hold of yourself,” even if Xiao Lin did not hear what the two of them talked about, she could see that the Emperor was truly angry at her missy this time.

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