Detective Ghost Empress

95 a fair fight

” And how long are you going to chase after me?” she turned to look at the ghost of Zhai Tianyu’s aunt and hitched up a brow. ” Didn’t I tell you that I am not going to help you? Without any reason whatsoever.”

Zhai Chenguang came looking for Liu Hui Ying when her mother collapsed, Grand Dowager Empress who lost her daughter raised Ji Yu as her granddaughter and doted on her as she would dote on Zhai Chenguang. It could be said that Ji Yu was her walking stick in old age, so when her mother heard that Ji Yu was poisoned she was shocked to her core and she couldn’t sit still.

Even after returning to her courtyard, her mother has been crying nonstop. Even when the imperial physician told her mother that crying so much might cause her to go blind, her mother didn’t listen to a thing that the imperial physician said, instead she continued crying, mourning the loss of grandchildren that she will never have, The grand Dowager Empress cried and cried for a long time and because of Zhai Chenguang sticking to her, she couldn’t withstand the pressure on her body and then fainted due to extreme weakness.

Zhai Chenguang was worried that her mother would get even sicker, which was why she left the courtyard and came looking for Liu Hui Ying, she thought that she will be able to convince Liu Hui Ying to help her but now that she saw how ruthless Liu Hui Ying was, she couldn’t even bring herself to say what she wanted to say.

This woman was heartless, she cared about no one other than herself, and she didn’t even care about Ji Yu who has been poisoned, there was a chance to save her life but Liu Hui Ying was refusing to do so even when handed jewels and money ...a woman like her.... She would definitely not help her who was dead and gone from the world without anything in her hands.

“It’s nothing,” she replied softly. ” My mother fainted because of me and that is why I came looking for you but I guess even if I ask you now, you wouldn’t help me, will you?”

” You are right, I will not help you..” Liu Hui Ying turned her attention back to her meal. ” If you want my help either bring me a treasure map or something and if you can’t do that then you need to bring me the soul of this woman, she escaped from this mess and left me to clean it up for her. I am having enough trouble as it is... if you help me go back to my world, I will help you move on... it’s a win-win situation for both of us.”

Zhai Chenguang’s eyes lit up, she could do something like looking for a soul. After all, she was a ghost as well, it shouldn’t be that difficult now, should it?

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” Where were you?” Zhai Heng asked when he saw Zhai Tianyu return to Ji Yu’s courtyard, when his brother said that he was going to look for a miracle, he was rather happy but now he was looking gloomy and angry. What happened? Where did he go?

But the answer soon came to him, after all in the palace only one woman was capable of making his mother raging mad like this. He sighed and asked, ” Did you go to the queen?”

” I did,” Zhai Tianyu answered without hiding anything, he looked at Ji Yu who was asleep and then heaved a breath. ” She was the one who told us that she knows some medical skills and she even took care of grandmother’s shoulder pain when no one else could do it. This was why I thought that she would be able to treat Ji Yu as well but...” he finished off bitterly as he scoffed.

” Did the queen say that she cannot treat, Yu’er?” asked Zhai Heng

He thought that Zhai Tianyu was angry at his fate that even the miracle that he was banking on didn’t seem to be of any help to him but to his surprise, Zhai Tianyu shook his head and said, ” Oh the queen can heal Yu’er, she said so with her mouth but she is selfish and petty. She is still ...” he paused and then closed his eyes before continuing, ” She is still blaming for what happened back then, she doesn’t want to help Yu’er. She said something about me being selfish, saying that I am being self-centred, that I only care about myself and the people I care about.”

He chortled mockingly. ” Said that I need to understand that as an Emperor no matter who it was... as long as they were innocent their problems were mine and vice versa but I have the mentality that my problems belong to everyone while I don’t care about others.”

He sighed and rubbed his face with his hands and said, ” She was really ruthless.”

Zhai Heng was shocked upon hearing that Liu Hui Ying could heal Ji Yu but when he thought about how she was able to treat their grandmother and knew how to keep that maid alive even with her heart pierced most probably she also knows how to treat Ji Yu’s womb.

In fact, he wasn’t surprised that Liu Hui Ying refused to help Ji Yu. The two of them even though they hardly conversed, they had a lot of friction between them.

” Now what are we going to do?” Zhai Heng asked, Liu Hui Ying wasn’t willing to help them and there was no one in the imperial palace who could help Ji Yu either.

“. I don’t know,” the truth was that as long as Zhai Tianyu pushed Liu Hui Ying into a corner he would have succeeded in making her give up and treat Ji Yu but he didn’t want to do that, it was a weird feeling. But he didn’t want to threaten her ...maybe it was because he knew that she wouldn’t bend in the face of his threat.

He turned to look at Ji Yu who was sleeping peacefully and sighed heavily again. ” I always thought that what I was doing was right but now I can’t help but question myself.” He turned his head to look at Zhai Heng and added with a confused look on his face. ” I thought killing Liu Hui Ying was the right thing to do but now ... it seems like I was nothing but a coward who went for the weakest chess piece in the Liu family’s court, elder brother are we really fighting a fair fight if we are willing to spill the blood of innocents like the Liu family?”