Detective Ghost Empress

286 Burning with regrets

Liu Dong Ming was a man who incited wrath and terror in the hearts of everyone he looked at, even though he only glanced at Ji Xianglan and felt his heart shudder. This was the man whom his uncle could not defeat even after fighting for such a long time, how can he not be terrified of him?

Ji Yang was skilled but he was not as skilled as his father who once ruled the court when Grand Dowager Empress was still sitting on the throne on the other hand, Liu Dong Ming was a man who was ten steps ahead of his father. He was not only skilled in handling the court, but he also protected the Liu family all too well, till now compared to the Ji family, the loss of the Liu family in terms of human lives was really less.

What was more Liu Dong Ming was a man who was vengeful to his bones, he will avenge even the death of a dog as long as it had the last name ‘Liu’ behind his name and this was his adopted daughter’s case! Even if Liu Dong Ming did not care about Liu Fei Fei that much when she was alive, he was not someone who will let the Ji family off easily either.

Being stared at by Liu Dong Ming caused Ji Xianglan to quake in fear, he was simply a follower of Ji Mo but looks like he was going to suffer tonight.

” Prime minister Liu, what are you doing here?” Ji Mo was really shocked, he looked at the man who arrived like a grim reaper and felt his legs tremble a little longer.

This was going to be troublesome, his father was not here and he was not as eloquent as his father who could deal with this man who was skilful in laying traps more than a hunter would be—— seeing him pop like that out of nowhere scared Ji Mo, he wanted to say something and send this man away but when Liu Dong Ming turned his head and glanced at him with those gloomy eyes of his, Ji Mo could not bring himself to utter even a peep.

Liu Dong Ming only glanced at the man lightly and did not say anything instead he turned to look at Zhai Tianyu and spoke in a slow yet bone-chilling voice, ” My daughter’s case that should have been handled properly and with all due care was mishandled by them like this …the culprit was killed without receiving proper punishment and the one who was the mastermind also escaped without us finding out who it was, I believe that I deserve an explanation, your majesty.”

Zhai Tianyu felt his head throb, he was having a headache —— he already had a bad feeling when he saw Ji Xianglan cut off Ji Meng’s head and now that Liu Dong Ming was here asking for an explanation, he knew that his guts were right when they were warning him!

” I understand your anger, Prime minster Liu but please appease your anger——” Zhai Tianyu began speaking but he did not even get a single sentence out before he was interrupted by Prime Minister Liu who resolutely glanced at Ji Xianglan and Ji Mo and said coldly, ” I have been appeasing my anger for quite a while, your majesty. Her majesty who is my niece was attacked by this man and my daughter was killed—— even consort Su was killed, who does not know that the Su family is related to the Liu by marriage?”

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” In just a few weeks, our family lost two daughters in the hands of the Ji family …three if the Queen was not fortunate and was able to get away with her life, is it wrong of me to ask for a punishment for this crime?”

” Prime Minister Liu, you are overstepping your boundaries,” Ji Mo could see that Liu Dong Ming was trying to pull the Ji family down. All these years, the Liu family has played the role of the bad cop while the Ji family was the one who was playing the role of the good and upright family, if the rumours of them getting involved in the murder were spread around what will they do?

What will the public think of them?

Liu Dong Ming however did not get frightened by a man who was yet to grow his facial hair. He simply stared at Ji Mo who was glaring at him, his aura was neither servile nor overbearing instead he looked like he was looking at a child who was throwing a tantrum, just the one glance was enough to make others know how little Liu Dong Ming thought of Ji Mo and the Ji family.

With his hands behind his back, Liu Dong Ming blinked his eyes and stated firmly, ” My daughter has been murdered in a cold-blooded manner by your brother and don’t say that he had nothing to do with you.” He added swiftly when he saw that Ji Mo was going to speak again.

” He was your family ever since the day he was brought back by your father’s concubine, the teachings that you gave him were instilled in his mind…how can you say that this had nothing to do with the Ji family? If you had done a good job teaching your children then this would not have happened! My daughter was killed and I want to see some punishment, if you do not agree with me then I will have no other choice but to take this matter to the imperial court!”

Liu Dong Ming stated his stance clearly, he was telling everyone that if he did not get what he wanted tonight then he will definitely make a fuss over this matter and drag the Ji family with him.

Ji Mo was so angry that his teeth started shaking with all the grinding he was doing. This man was so hateful! All these words that he threw back at him were something that his father said to Liu Dong Ming in the past when Liu Fei Fei made trouble and entangled Liu Dong Ming in her mess.

Back then, they all had a lot of fun taunting Liu Dong Ming thinking that they were really smart for sending Liu Fei Fei to his house but tonight, Ji Mo was regretful! He was burning with regrets!

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