Detective Ghost Empress

290 He is not mine to worry

Liu Hui Ying sent Liu Fei Fei away, but instead of feeling relieved, she felt a bit empty inside. She couldn’t help but feel subtly sorry for Liu Fei Fei whose entire life was used up for the sake of playing her role as a chess piece that was doomed to be discarded from the start—— as she looked at the pearl-like Yang energy that was dissipating as Liu Fei Fei’s soul vanished from this world, she couldn’t help but ask herself whether power was really that important?

However, she soon threw that question in the back of her head. Power was indeed the most important thing in every world no matter where they were, if Liu Fei Fei had the power to protect herself then something like this would not have happened to her—— the desire of gaining power was not wrong, what was wrong was how one achieved that power.

” We should go back,” she told Zhai Tianyu who was looking at the sky as well, Liu Fei Fei’s soul have long vanished but Zhai Tianyu was still staring at the sky.

He did not say anything nor did he move but after a few minutes, Liu Hui Ying heard him ask in a subtly blank voice, ” My Queen, do you think I acted too much like a fool in these past few years?”

When he was very young around seven or eight, his father was killed by assassins, his grandmother cried at the funeral of his father while hugging the corpse of her son that it was the Liu family who was behind the assassination of her son.

His mother who should have been crying at the funeral of her husband laughed and giggled. He heard from his grand uncle that she even threw a banquet when his father died and she even went as far as saying that ‘he deserved it.’ Zhai Tianyu grew up watching his grandmother’s tears that she shed for her son and his mother who wouldn’t even offer incense to his father’s memorial tablet except for Memorial Day, with everything that was in front of him, Zhai Tianyu slowly inclined towards his grandmother.

But of course, his mother’s sarcastic words and her desire to not even look at him played an important role as well but now that he looked at the present, he couldn’t help but think that he was indeed acting like a fool all along.

“If you need me to answer that question for you, your majesty, then I think that you still need some more lessons,” replied Liu Hui Ying, she did not call Zhai Tianyu a fool but she did not refuse either causing Zhai Tianyu to clench his fingers hard. So, what was the truth and what was the lie, was it possible that throughout his entire life, he kept on living nothing but a lie?

Zhai Tianyu felt suffocated but he swallowed the hard pill, he aimed to become a ruler who was wiser and fairer than his father who created a mess when he sat on his throne. But now he realised that he was miles away from that goal because of his unconscious bias actions, he tied a blindfold on his eyes and couldn’t see when the Ji family changed.

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Now that Liu Hui Ying removed that blindfold, Zhai Tianyu could see his grandmother’s tears, his granduncle’s woes and the sweet words of the Ji family when they told him that they were going to stay loyal to him till the end ——they were all fake!

Just how many years did they pull wool over his eyes?

Zhai Tianyu wanted to head back to his grandmother’s courtyard and question her whether she was hiding something more from him, but he did not let his emotions govern his actions. When he sat on the throne at the age of ten, his mother had once told him that while sitting on the throne he will soon realise that he was alone from the beginning till the end.

Back then he did not believe her, after all, he knew that the Ji family was with him and his grandmother also kept telling him that she will be right behind him to catch him if he fell—— but now he realized that his mother was right.

From the beginning he was alone.

A cold wind blew past him and sent the black robe with golden dragon embroidered fluttering as he stared at the moon.

Liu Hui Ying wanted to leave but when her gaze fell on the desolate expression of the man, her steps faltered a little but the reason for her slowing her pace down had more to do with her ghosts instead of the Emperor looking like that.

” Are you really going to leave him behind so heartlessly like that? Look at his face, he looks like someone has kicked him in the butt,” Jia Li commented from behind her as she looked at the Emperor with a sympathetic look on her face. She could understand how he felt, when she was alive, her parents only took care of her brother because they were heavily patriarchal.

They will push her to work harder saying that since she was born with good genetics and a brain, she should help her brother who was not as smart as her. She worked hard for her brother but one day when she went to look for her brother, she heard him call her an idiot as he coaxed his girlfriend saying that she will give him as much money as he asked for ——

She truly treated her brother like her family and he treated her like she was a fool.

” He looks like an abandoned puppy,” Li Gang remarked from the side as well, as he looked at the Emperor who was looking at the moon with a sad expression on his face. He turned to look at Liu Hui Ying and said, ” You shouldn’t leave him like this…in just a night he lost a lot of things ..shouldn’t you coax him?”

Liu Hui Ying’s brows twitched as she turned to look at her ghosts and said, ” He is not my monkey.”

” He is your nominal husband,” replied Li Gang and Jia Li telling Liu Hui Ying indirectly that the man was indeed her monkey.