Detective Ghost Empress

79 Aiming to kill

Liu Hui Ying swung her sword at Ji Yu and this time she was a lot more heavy-handed than before, Ji Yu who wasn’t used to such strength or attacks stumbled and the sword from her hand flew from her hand. Liu Hui Ying caught the sword in her hand with a swift move and then with a swift kick of her feet, she twisted on the platform.

Two swords crossed together one on another was aimed at Ji Yu, seeing something like this happen Ji Yu stumbled and closed her eyes as if she thought that doing something like closing her eyes would hurt a bit less.

” Concubine Ji!”

” Ji Yu!”

However, the pain that Ji Yu was expecting never came, stunned she opened her eyes and saw Liu Hui Ying who have stopped the swords an inch away from her neck. Ji Yu looked down at the sharp edges of the blades and then heaved a sigh of relief just now she felt like she was going to die.

” Queen! What are you doing!” A familiar voice shouted from behind and Liu Hui Ying smirked, she didn’t turn her head instead she looked at Ji Yu who was staring at Zhai Tianyu’s figure with stars in her eyes and said, ” Guess your knight in shining armour is here, Concubine Ji.”

Ji Yu’s face flushed in shame and humiliation, she wanted to teach Liu Hui Ying a lesson and yet she was the one who was on her bottom.

Zhai Tianyu strode over to Liu Hui Ying who now took the swords that were aimed at Ji Yu’s neck, his face was pale and he was trembling with rage, right now when he saw Ji Yu being attacked by Liu Hui Ying, he was so terrified that he wanted to attack the queen but then he saw Liu Hui Ying stop in time and he somehow managed to restrain himself.

But that did nothing to ease the tension in his body, he hurriedly climbed one step after another and reached the top of the platform before rushing next to Ji Yu and crouching next to her. “Yu’er are you all right?” He asked carefully as he looked at Ji Yu.

.....

If this was any other Concubine then she would have thrown herself in Zhai Tianyu’s arms and cried until she filled a river but Ji Yu was not like that, she nodded her head simply and replied, ” I am fine, the queen has fantastic control over her sword, she knew what she was doing and didn’t touch me in the slightest.”

Ji Yu indeed hated Liu Hui Ying but she wouldn’t do something as portraying her as the villain when the latter has never harmed her, it was her who egged the Queen first despite being unskilled when compared to her, Liu Hui Ying did nothing that could be counted as wrong.

In fact, she deserved to be admired, a woman who has always stayed in the courtyard of her house actually had such skills.

Ji Yu did not blame the queen but Zhai Tianyu did, he didn’t care whether the Queen hurt Ji Yu or not, when he saw Liu Hui Ying attack Ji Yu, he was sure that she was aiming for the kill, that stance, that agility... no one would use it in a mock fight.

” Queen, would you mind telling me what is wrong with you?” Zhai Tianyu asked though he was keeping his voice in check one could see that he was barely restraining himself. If not for the Liu Family he might have killed Liu Hui Ying for raising her sword at Ji Yu. ” Why were you trying to kill concubine Ji? No matter how jealous and enraged you are, should you not know what you can and cannot do?”

” Jealous? Kill he?” Liu Hui Ying mused before she threw her head back and laughed without restraint. ” That’s ....hahaha, that’s amusing, this is funny. You think that I was aiming to kill her, huh?” She questioned and only then did Zhai Tianyu see that there was a pair of dark hands attached to Liu Hui Ying’s shoulders.

This pair of hands were different from the ghosts he has seen, they were kind and didn’t seem like they would harm anyone but this ghost ...it was dark and sinister, and he could sense the blood thirst coming from it with ease.

” I wasn’t aiming to kill her,” he heard Liu Hui Ying say as he wrenched his attention away from the pair of dark hands and then looked at Liu Hui Ying, her lips were curled up sinisterly like she was the devil, himself. ” I was just playing with her and if you want to blame me for aiming to kill her, then let me tell you how I would kill someone.”

She threw Ji Yu’s sword on the platform and then tucked hers nicely on the edge of her dress while she walked towards the maid who came to stand next to Ji Yu and placed her hands on her cheeks cupping them. The maid was the same freckled one who was planning to kill Ji Yu and then put the blame on Liu Hui Ying.

Seeing that the Queen was holding her, the maid stiffened and looked at the Queen with terror in her eyes. ” My...My queen?”

” I will place my hand on someone whom I want to kill swiftly first,” Liu Hui Ying started speaking without saying a thing to the maid, before she smiled at the maid and then added, ” Then I will go like this ....” She twisted the neck of the maid so fast that no one could understand what was going on, it was only when the maid whose face was clutched in the hands of the queen, slumped down on the floor like a puppet whose strings have been cut, did everyone understand what just happened.

The Queen killed someone and she killed them with her bare hands! What in the world!