Detective Ghost Empress

32 Beads of blood wood.

Liu Hui Ying understood at once that the old woman was trying to set her up, she cursed the old hag in her head until she dug the grave of her ancestors and whipped them up but the smile on her face didn’t falter, instead, she looked a bit hesitant as she dropped her gaze a little and blinked her eyes. That cursed beads necklace was something that she very much wanted to raise her spiritual energy, since she was a woman who had a severe allergy to men, her body lacked the Yang energy that she needed while raising three ghosts, only by sucking the Yin energy of cursed things and ghosts was she able to maintain her life.

Now that she found something so appetising she could not let go of it! So, she tilted her head and looked at the old woman with a slight wince on her face. ” Punishment? I thought we were just showing off our skills, from where did this talk of punishment pop up, your majesty?”

“Of course, it’s different, my queen. ” Zhai Tianyu has cottoned on to the scheme of his grandmother, he turned to look at Liu Hui Ying with an innocent expression that had a slightly troubled smile on his face as if he was really in a bad situation. ” Grand dowager empress’s body is not something that you can experiment on, of course, the stakes will be high...if you can’t do it why not just drop the entire thing, my queen? There is no shame in accepting that you couldn’t do it. No one will say a word about it outside,” then he turned to look at his head commander and General before sternly saying, ” Don’t breathe a word about this outside.”

” We won’t your majesty,” said Zhai Heng as he lowered his head while Yu Lingyun simply nodded but Liu Hui Ying could see the mocking glint in their eyes.

” See my queen, there is no need for you to force yourself,” Zhai Tianyu turned his head and looked at Liu Hui Ying with a doting smile, even his eyes were filled with warmth as if he truly cared about her.

” If this man lived in our world, he would have won an oscar,” Liu Hui Ying muttered in her head.

Jia Li nodded her head seriously as she flew in the air and took a sit on the invisible chair. ” That’s true, he is really good... if we didn’t know any better, I would have thought that he truly adores you but it’s clear from the small crinkle of his glabella that he is finding this situation really annoying .”

She has been working in the forensic lab ever since she graduated from college and after solving so many cases she could even detect the slightest bit of change in the emotions of a person from the smallest change in their physical anatomy.

” And he is baiting you, dear,” said Grandma Lan Fen, when she was a police officer, she has seen many psychological tactics by the criminals, they would threaten the police in a such manner sometimes. Baiting them to make a move when they knew that they had the situation under their grasp. ” It will be foolish for anyone to jump in this carefully laid trap but ...”

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” But you are not just anyone,” Li Gang threw his hands back and locked them behind his head and smirked at Liu Hui Ying. ” I bet you are already thinking about how to counterattack them and push them into the pit that they are digging for you.”

” Of course,” Liu Hui Ying turned her eyes slightly to look at her three ghost servants and said with a slight curl of one end of her lips, ” Who do you think I am.”

“It’s all right,” said Liu Hui Ying as she turned to look at Grand Dowager Empress and caught the flash of victory that glinted in her eyes. She suppressed the mocking curl of her lips before she continued speaking, ” I will take my chances and see what I can do.”

” Oh my dear,” she heard Nanny Gong groan behind her and from the way two maids tried to hold her up, it was clear that she almost passed out again. Liu Hui Ying slightly turned her head and looked at the extremely pale Nanny Gong and Qui Ai and winced slightly as she mumbled an apology to them in her head, ‘ I am sorry Nanny Gong and Qui Ai, but you both better get used to it because I am going to continue dancing with the Devil.’

So, she deliberately ignored Nanny Gang and her pallid-looking maid as she smiled at Grand Dowager Empress and clapped her hands as she said, ” But if there is a punishment then, there must be a reward as well, right? After all, that is only fair....right?” She dragged the last syllable as she looked sharply at Grand Dowager Empress and smiled with a knowing glint in her eyes.

Seeing that glint, Grand Dowager Empress was a bit stunned. It was as if they weren’t the one who was in control of the situation but instead it was Liu Hui Ying was the one who was making a fool out of them, did she really know some medical skills? Grand Dowager Empress turned to look at her grandson who calmly closed his eyes and opened them, only then did her heart ease a little.

That was right, if Liu Hui Ying knew any medical skills they would have known, how can such a thing be hidden? Surely, this girl was just trying to make a fool out of them by looking all confident like that, Grand Dowager Empress calmed her heart and smiled at Liu Hui Ying before she asked, ” A reward, what is it that you want?”

Though she asked that, she already knew what Liu Hui Ying was going to ask, she looked at the hairpin that Ji Yu’s maid was holding and snorted mockingly. Who in the empire didn’t know that Liu Hui Ying liked to compete with Ji Yu, surely she will ask for the hairpin or something similar to it.

” I want the beads of bloodwood.”