Detective Ghost Empress

Ji Yu's eyes flashed with mockery. She knew Ji Xinyi as Ji Xinyi was her cousin and she was only thirteen, even if her sister was ambitious she was far too young to give birth to a child yet her grandaunt was willing to push her cousin into the hell hole as she wanted to claim the throne for the Ji family.

More importantly, even if her grandaunt was to push Ji Xinyi to Zhai Tianyu that man might not even accept her as he did not want his harem to be in a mess. What was more Ji Yu knew what kind of man Zhai Tianyu was, as long as his eyes were fixated on one woman he would never move his gaze away from that woman.

This meant that Zhai Tianyu would only have Liu Hui Ying in his heart till his death. So either he would have kids with Liu Hui Ying or he would die trying. So this decision of her aunt would only ruin the life of her cousin.

However Ji Yu knew that she could not stop the Grand Dowager Empress, if she tried to contradict the Grand Dowager Empress, she would only lose her temper. After all, in the eyes of her father and her grandaunt, she was the one at fault. Her father had told her many times that if she had been careful then she wouldn't have become a useless barren woman.

' It's almost funny that my usefulness and uselessness depend on my ability to get pregnant,' thought Ji Yu with a sneer playing on her lips.

While Ji Yu stayed quiet and waited for Grand Dowager Empress's temper to simmer down, the maids cleaned the floor that had the pieces of porcelain scattered all over.

Once they cleaned the floor and went back to their spots, Ji Yu turned to look at her grandaunt, though she was unbothered by the anger of this woman, she had to play her role for the sake of getting closer to that master who was living at her family.

Liu Dong Ming did tell her that if she helped him get information on that man he would help her meet with Xiao Lin one last time and given that the man could order the dead around like they were his servants, Ji Yu was sure that he was not lying.

Compared to her grandaunt and father who discarded her in a jiffy as she was useless to their plans the second she became infertile, Liu Dong Ming seemed a bit more dependable as he at least did not use the children of his family as pawns in his game.

For Ji Yu who had been abandoned as if she was a being with no life or feeling inside of her by her family whom she trusted Liu Dong Ming was a good man.

" Grandaunt, you can always introduce his majesty to more women there is no need for you to lose your temper," Ji Yu said with a flattering smile as she massaged her grandaunt's shoulders. " But your health is most important. Didn't you see? Lord Liu has caused a lot of trouble for our family, I fear that we will have a hard time recovering from this loss.

If you lose your temper like this what would happen to our family if your health deteriorates?"

Only then did Grand Dowager Empress calm down a little. That was right, if she lost her temper and caused her body to suffer then it would be twice as much as a loss for her.

Grand Dowager Empress closed her eyes and then rubbed the space between her brows as she released a frustrated sigh. " Your father said that this plan was foolproof and that nothing was going to go wrong. I hate to admit that I was a fool to believe him, but look where he brought us. He caused more than thirty thousand taels of gold!

This is a loss that we might not be able to recover even if we try our best."

What was more Zhai Tianyu introduced the banking system that would allow the commoners to submit their tax money to the bank instead of the officials! They could no longer embezzle any more money! Just thinking about it made her heart ache and her stomach burn with anxiety.

Ji Yu rolled her eyes as she knew that Grand Dowager Empress could not see her. She pursed her lips and stopped herself from telling Grand Dowager Empress that it was her who agreed with the plan first only then did her father go ahead with the plan but now that the situation was like this, the blame seemed to have fallen on her father.

However, Ji Yu did not sympathise with her father.

"You are right grandaunt, this was a poorly executed plan but there is no need for you to get angry," Ji Yu smiled as she walked forward and knelt beside her grandaunt before reaching out her hands and then massaging Grand Dowager Empress's legs. " I mean life is long, so what if the Liu family won this time around? We can always make them suffer later on."

She then praised Grand Dowager Empress with an expression of buttering someone, " After all, you were the one who brought the Ji family to where it is now, Grand Aunt. With you here, I am sure that we are going to be fine."

Grand Dowager Empress also hummed a bit pleased after getting praised. That was right, she could suppress the Liu family once, and she could do the same thing all over again.

" You are right," a glint flashed in the Grand Dowager Empress's eyes as she agreed with Ji Yu. " This is just a small setback that we have suffered sooner or later, I will gain everything that we have lost."

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