Detective Ghost Empress

71 Only I am the villain?

” Just tell her that you are glad that she worried for you,” said Jia Li after careful consideration. ” But make it look like you have understood the meaning of her words and glance at her in disdain like you cannot even bother yourself with the likes of her.”

” Will that be okay?” Grandma Lan Fen was ever the peace-loving elder, she did not want to see any catfight happening in front of her for absolutely no reason.

” Why not,” said Li Gang with a casual shrug. ” She was the one who hurled the bat at us first, shouldn’t we retaliate? I mean if we let her go that easily, she will think that we are a bunch of pussies and I do not want to be in a gang with a bunch of scaredy cats.”

Liu Hui Ying has always been the type of person who wouldn’t bother someone in case they don’t bother her but clearly the same could not be said for Concubine Ji who came waving her horns and trying to hit her.

So, she smiled just like Jia Li asked her to with a hint of disdain and said, ” I am thankful that you were worried about me concubine Ji.”

Ji Yu caught the disdain in Liu Hui Ying’s eyes and her anger soared past her head even more. Why? With what right was this woman looking at her like this? She was the one who belonged to a highly corrupt and cruel family, with what confidence was she looking at her like this?

” Of course, I have to worry about you, your majesty,” seeing that her words didn’t seem to incite the reaction that she intended to, Ji Yu tried again, if she was to successfully get the Empress to hit her then Zhai Tianyu will be able to use it against the Liu family. ” As the royal concubine, it’s my responsibility to make sure that you remain in good health.”

” What does she mean by this now?” questioned Liu Hui Ying as she flicked her glance at Jia Li.

” She is asserting dominance,” replied Jia Li with a wise look on her face. ” She is the Emperor’s childhood sweetheart and the two of them have been together with each other for so long meaning that she knows more about the Emperor than you do... and she seems to be treating you as a guest. If I am not wrong then I am sure that she is using her words to undermine you by insinuating that you will be kicked out sooner or later.”

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She then paused and added, ” I saw her stiffening when she saw you in the garden from what I can summarise from her attitude and the overly offensive behaviour... I think that this garden holds a special place in her heart.”

Liu Hui Ying did not have any interest in the throne or the crown that she had at the moment. Maybe to women like this one right here, this might be a grand thing but to her, her freedom was what mattered the most.

” I see, if you are here to tell me to leave then you should say it outright,” Liu Hui Ying did not want to play along with Ji Yu, anyway she was going to leave this place sooner or later, she did not have even the slightest bit of attachment to anything here. So, Ji Yu’s actions were nothing but child play to her as she glanced at Ji Yu dismissively and added, ” I don’t like people who go round and round in circles.”

Her words were nothing less than a verbal slap on Ji Yu’s face, the latter’s entire body stiffened but Liu Hui Ying wasn’t Zhai Tianyu, she wouldn’t care about Ji Yu just because the latter looked hurt or as if she was on the verge of crying.

She glanced at the pale complexion of Ji Yu and then walked past her, her head held high but she didn’t even take ten steps away from Ji Yu when the latter turned her head and sharply said, ” Your majesty, sure knows how to speak ..have you forgotten how your family killed my brother?”

Liu Hui Ying frowned in annoyance, she wasn’t Liu Hui Ying of this world and she did not have any connections with the Liu family either but she was still troubled like this, she turned her feet slightly such that she was looking at Ji Yu and asked in a firm voice, ” Did I give the order to kill your brother? Or did I drive the sword through his heart?”

Ji Yu’s face turned pale but when she didn’t reply Liu Hui Ying smiled and said, ” From your expression, I can see that I didn’t ... then why are you questioning me with that blaming expression of yours? If you have the courage why don’t you go and question the one who was behind the order? Or is it that you do not have the courage to do so?”

” It was your family who did it!” Ji Yu did not want to hear Liu Hui Ying speak like that she did not want this woman to shirk off the blame that she was supposed to carry. After all, the woman who got her brother killed was none other than this woman’s sister!

” Hmm, do you mean to say that your family’s hands are clean?” Liu Hui Ying asked with an amused smile as she looked at the woman in front of her, when Ji Yu did not say anything, she crossed her hands behind her back and smilingly added, ” It would be better for you not to forget how many lives your family have taken from the Liu family if I was to speak the truth...just the way you lost your brother, I lost my sister... do I need to say anything more?”

” Wha..what?” Ji Yu asked in confusion when she caught sight of Qui Ai and Nanny Gong’s red eyes while Liu Hui Ying’s eyes glimmered cruelly as she smiled at her. ” Oh my, it seems that your family only knows how to make mine a villain, concubine Ji. The day when your brother was supposed to meet with my sister, she was assaulted and then killed off, my father didn’t even let me see my sister’s body. Be glad that my family was kind enough to let you have a last look at your brother’s body.”

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