Detective Ghost Empress

65 Think before doing anything.

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Ji Yu heard his words, and though she was hesitant in her heart she still placed her hands on her lap and asked softly, ” Then your majesty, I wanted to know why did you reward the Queen?”

Zhai Tianyu’s actions of pouring the tea into the tea cup paused as he turned to look at Ji Yu who hurriedly corrected herself, ” I mean, I am not blaming or questioning you, your majesty but you said that you were going to use the queen to knock the Liu family a peg down or two but if you reward her after making it look like you have spent the night with her then the Liu family will become even more arrogant.”

” I know,” Zhai Tianyu sighed lightly, too did not want to gift Liu Hui Ying anything but she has made it clear that she wasn’t going to help his aunt move on to the afterlife without any reward, which was why he was forced to hand her the rewards. ” But you don’t need to worry, the plan hasn’t changed. It’s still the same, Liu Hui Ying... she will have to be disposed of as the Queen sooner or later.” He wasn’t lying and from what he could see the Queen didn’t care about the throne either, in fact from all the raving he has heard, he was quite certain that she cared a lot more about the thing called ‘Four motion’ ( he is saying promotion).

Since, neither of them wanted her to sit on the throne of the Queen, disposing of Liu Hui Ying will be a lot easier, he just have to come up with a plan that will make her agree.

Ji Yu did not know what was going on in Zhai Tianyu’s head, she heard that he was still planning to dispose of the Queen and her heart that has been taut relaxed a little. She knew that her feelings were stupid and so was the desire of Zhai Tianyu loving her but at the very least she did not want Zhai Tianyu to fall in love with someone else and more importantly not Liu Hui Ying!

” Then these rewards–”

” They are nothing, there was something that the Queen helped me with and that is why I rewarded her, nothing more,” Zhai Tianyu replied before Ji Yu could finish her question, in his head Ji Yu was worried about the plan they have been moving on till now. The plan was obviously for the betterment of the country, there was nothing wrong with Ji Yu’s worry upon seeing him deviate from the plan.

Ji Yu frowned upon hearing Zhai Tianyu say those words, even more, the Queen helped Tianyu? With what and since when did someone from the Liu family start helping them?

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At this point, she was reminded of the words her mother has told her before she entered the harem. She told her to be aware of Liu Hui Ying’s every move asking her to be on her guard no matter how naive and foolish Liu Hui Ying looked, now that she was looking at Zhai Tianyu who was talking about Liu Hui Ying as if she was a good friend of him, Ji Yu was worried that Zhai Tianyu was getting fooled by Liu Hui Ying.

After all, he knew better than anyone else how tricky and scheming the members of the Liu family can be, if not then her brother would still be alive!

He was the one who was fooled by someone he shouldn’t have, he trusted someone from the Liu family and lost his life in return.

Ji Yu couldn’t let Zhai Tianyu walk on the same path as her brother!

” Your majesty,” she thought over the words that she wanted to say to Zhai Tianyu carefully before she raised her head and looked Zhai Tianyu straight in the eyes and said, ” I don’t know what the Queen has told you but I hope that you are doing everything after careful consideration. Make sure that you have carefully considered everything for we all know how ruthless the people of the Liu family can be... you haven’t forgotten Brother Chen right?”

At the mention of Ji Chen, Zhai Tianyu’s face turned grim. Back when they were young, Ji Chen fell for a daughter from the Liu family who promised him that she will marry him but everyone knew the rivalry between the Ji and the Liu family. So, when Ji Chen told them that he fell for someone from the Liu family, they all tried to make him see sense but the latter didn’t hear a thing and simply went ahead on the path he chose.

In the end, their relationship wasn’t accepted by their families, this was something everyone expected but what they did not expect was that Ji Chen was so enthralled by that woman that he was willing to elope with her but on the day when they were supposed to elope instead of finding the woman from the Liu family on the spot where Ji Chen was supposed to meet her, he met a bunch of assassins who killed him on the spot.

As for who sent the assassins everyone knew who it was.

That was how Ji Yu lost her brother and the enmity between the two families became even more intense. Now it has come to the point where one family wasn’t willing to stand another.

” I remember everything, Yu’er,” Zhai Tianyu rubbed his temple and couldn’t help but think over again, what if this was indeed some sort of trap? After all, he has never seen his aunt or spoken to her, unlike the ghosts that always stayed with Liu Hui Ying.

What if Liu Hui Ying was indeed making a fool of him? Then what was he supposed to do?

” Your majesty are you okay?” seeing that Zhai Tianyu has stopped speaking Ji Yu called him softly snapping the latter out of his daze as he smiled at her and said, “It’s nothing, Concubine Ji.” But inwardly he has already decided to go and look for Liu Hui Ying.

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