Detective Ghost Empress

'Fck my life,' Liu Hui Ying cursed, as she knew better than anyone that what she had said just now was equivalent to announcing that Zhai Tianyu was her special one.

The one for whom she had feelings and whatnot. She did not have feelings for him. Nope, it was impossible for her to have feelings for him, there had never been a man who would be special to her.

Then why was her allergy not flaring up? A little voice in her head questioned and she ignored it. Not because she was not willing to answer it, but because she had no way to answer it. Why was her allergy not flailing up, what could she even say when Liu Hui Ying, herself, did not have any answer to that question?

However, she hoped that Zhai Tianyu would stop smiling at her like that as if she had just told him that she was in love with him. She wasn't, he knew that, but he was still smiling like she was the eighth wonder of the modern world and the first one of this time and era.

How could he even look at her like that when she could not even withstand her presence? Does he even know how ugly her emotions could be? Like the last time, when she lost herself in them, she got her sister killed. If she lost her control, then maybe she would lose someone just like the last time.

Maybe him.

A wave of nausea washed over her, and Liu Hui Ying shook his hand off her wrist.

Behind her, Li Gang shook his head and Jia Li looked at Liu Hui Ying sympathetically just like Grandma Lan Fen who was watching Liu Hui Ying as if she were looking at her granddaughter suffering.

Zhai Tianyu also sensed the changes in Liu Hui Ying, but he did not say anything, instead, he tilted his head to the side and caught hold of her wrist before saying, "Why are you shaking me off, my queen? Isn't it a good thing that your allergy has gotten better? Even if it's just me?"

"What made you think that it's a good thing?" Liu Hui Ying glared at him in the past, she had a reason to avoid people. People cared for her, but now that the reason was gone, she couldn't use it as a shield anymore.

It made her feel stripped naked to the world which annoyed Liu Hui Ying, but at the same time she was calmed and at ease because she knew that she was normal and not a freak like everyone else called her.

"Isn't it?" Zhai Tianyu leaned forward until his lips were inches away from Liu Hui Ying, causing Nanny Gong and Xiao Ai to swoon as they looked away from the two people in front of them.

Liu Hui Ying's breathing hitched before picking up its pace as she raised her hand and then pushed Zhai Tianyu away from her face.

Her cheeks were inflamed as she stepped away from Zhai Tianyu and then said heatedly, "No. Which part of having an annoying man like you clinging to me, is a good thing?"

She turned her back on him as she walked inside the courtyard behind her Nanny Gong and Xiao Ai chased after her, the two of them bowed their heads in front of Zhai Tianyu before rushing after Liu Hui Ying.

"Your majesty! Let this servant see your skin!"

"Your majesty, walk slowly, you are the empress of this country."

Zhai Tianyu watched Liu Hui Ying leave, the warmth of her skin still lingering on his fingers. He watched her rush inside the courtyard, his eyes falling on the back of her neck which was covered in red, and a curl appeared on his lips as he smiled at Liu Hui Ying's disappearing back.

"Well, well…looks like, I am not the only one in denial," Zhai Tianyu snickered as he looked away from Liu Hui Ying. He headed towards the gates of the Phoenix courtyard where he met with Zhai Heng who was looking at him with a complicated look in his eyes.

He waited for two seconds before saying, "Do you realize that this might cause trouble for Her Majesty, Your Majesty?"

"It will," Zhai Tianyu smiled at Zhai Heng. He crossed his hands behind him and then continued to walk before saying, "But you are forgetting one thing, Brother." He turned his body sideways such that he was looking at the closing gates of the Phoenix palace as he curled his lips in an obscene prideful smile and remarked, "But she is not my weakness, Brother Heng.

She is my strength, those who want to harm her, will have to think twice."

He tilted his head to the side and looked at his brother with a smile before adding sweetly, "She is everything that I wanted in my Empress."

….

Inside the Phoenix Palace.

Liu Hui Ying breathed heavily as she stared at the mirror, her eyes searched for the smallest boil on her skin but nothing. Her skin was as pale and clear as a peeled egg, even if she wanted to deny it…she could no longer deny it. Zhai Tianyu really crossed the stone-cold fortress that she had built across her heart.

She dropped her gaze to her hands that were resting on the dressing table and felt an urge to ruin everything.

"Why are you so angry? Isn't it so romantic," Jia Li questioned with a gushing expression that was filled with the intention of gossiping. "You seemed to have found the one and only for you. How romantic."

Li Gang stared at her as if she were a fool and then said, "You are a fool if you think that this is romantic. Even if it is, this story has no good end. Has it slipped past your head, that we do not belong to this time and era?"

"We are going to leave eventually," he added as a reminder for Liu Hui Ying, who opened her eyes and nodded,

"You are right," she agreed with him. "This relationship does not have a good end, so it's better to nip it before it can start budding."